1. On the Metamorphosis of the Bailey Diagram for RR Lyrae Stars
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E. Di Carlo, Matteo Monelli, George W. Preston, S. Marinoni, Bertrand Lemasle, Brian Chaboyer, J. P. Mullen, R. da Silva, Adriano Pietrinferni, J. Crestani, Giuseppe Bono, Marcella Marconi, Laura Inno, Z. Prudil, P. M. Marrese, Scilla Degl'Innocenti, I. Ferraro, Alistair R. Walker, Andrea Kunder, Christopher Sneden, Jillian R. Neeley, G. Altavilla, Frédéric Thévenin, Emanuele Tognelli, Mario Nonino, P. G. Prada Moroni, Massimo Dall'Ora, Giuliana Fiorentino, R. Buonanno, E. Valenti, V. V. Kovtyukh, C. K. Gilligan, Massimo Marengo, G. Iannicola, Peter B. Stetson, C. E. Martínez-Vázquez, Eva K. Grebel, Noriyuki Matsunaga, M. Fabrizio, Vittorio F. Braga, Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015 - 2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015 - 2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015 - 2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015 - 2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015 - 2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015 - 2019) (COMUE UCA), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, and COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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Radial velocity ,RR Lyrae variable stars ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,Blazhko effect ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics ,RR Lyrae variable ,01 natural sciences ,Horizontal branch stars ,symbols.namesake ,0103 physical sciences ,Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR) ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics ,ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences ,Physics ,Settore FIS/05 ,Balmer series ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Effective temperature ,Horizontal branch ,Stellar oscillations ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies ,Amplitude ,Space and Planetary Science ,Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA) ,symbols ,Instability strip ,[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] - Abstract
We collected over 6000 high-resolution spectra of four dozen field RR Lyrae (RRL) variables pulsating either in the fundamental (39 RRab) or in the first overtone (9 RRc) mode. We measured radial velocities (RVs) of four strong metallic and four Balmer lines along the entire pulsational cycle and derived RV amplitudes with accuracies better than 1$-$2~\kmsec. The new amplitudes were combined with literature data for 23~RRab and 3~RRc stars (total sample 74 RRLs) which allowed us to investigate the variation of the Bailey diagram (photometric amplitude versus period) when moving from optical to mid-infrared bands and to re-cast the Bailey diagram in terms of RV amplitudes. We found that RV amplitudes for RRab are minimally affected by nonlinear phenomena (shocks) and multi-periodicity (Blazhko effect). The RV slope ($\log P$--A(V$_r$)) when compared with the visual slope ($\log P$--A($V$)) is shallower and the dispersion, at fixed period, decreases by a factor of two. We constructed homogeneous sets of Horizontal Branch evolutionary models and nonlinear, convective pulsation models of RRLs to constrain the impact of evolutionary effects on their pulsation properties. Evolution causes, on the Bailey diagram based on RV amplitudes, a modest variation in pulsation period and a large dispersion in amplitude. The broad dispersion in period of the Bailey diagram is mainly caused by variation in RRL intrinsic parameters (stellar mass, chemical composition). Empirical evidence indicates that RV amplitudes are an optimal diagnostic for tracing the mean effective temperature across the RRab instability strip., 14 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, Accepted on ApJ Letter
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- 2020
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