Population-I Pulsating Stars
Abstract
Luminosities of Population I pulsating stars (Delta Scuti variables and classical cepheids) are investigated. From data for 80 Delta Scuti stars, semi-empirical period-luminosity-colour (P-L-C) relations and period-luminosity (P-L) relations are obtained for the four lowest modes of radial pulsations. The improvement of the accuracy of the stellar luminosity is determined when a P-L-C relation is used instead of the corresponding P-L relation. From data for 155 classical cepheids, empirical P-L relations are derived for short-period stars (logP≤1.1), long-period stars (logP>1.1), and s-cepheids. The comparison of the P-L relations for the two types of variable stars shows good agreement, but between them there is a ‘gap’ with a dim nature.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics and Space Science
- Pub Date:
- December 1985
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00650149
- Bibcode:
- 1985Ap&SS.117..227T
- Keywords:
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- Cepheid Variables;
- Stellar Oscillations;
- Variable Stars;
- Stellar Color;
- Stellar Luminosity;
- Astrophysics