The Masses and Luminosities of Globular Cluster RRc Stars

Autor: Norman R. Simon, Christine M. Clement
Rok vydání: 1993
Zdroj: International Astronomical Union Colloquium. 139:315-323
ISSN: 0252-9211
Popis: A large number of hydrodynamic pulsation models are converged in the first overtone, and their mean properties compared with observations of RRc stars in six globular clusters. The two observed quantities, period and Fourier parameter ϕ31, lead, via the models, to inferred values for mean mass, luminosity and temperature of the RRc sample in each cluster. We find a narrow range in intracluster RRc luminosity and temperature, but a wider range in mass. At the same time, the intercluster spread is wide in all three parameters. A full discussion of our techniques and results will be given elsewhere (Simon and Clement, in preparation).
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