Issue |
A&A
Volume 402, Number 2, May I 2003
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Page(s) | 733 - 743 | |
Section | Stellar structure and evolution | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20030291 | |
Published online | 14 April 2003 |
A photometric monitoring of bright high-amplitude δ Scuti stars
II. Period updates for seven stars
1
Department of Experimental Physics and Astronomical Observatory, University of Szeged, Dóm tér 9, Szeged 6720, Hungary
2
School of Physics, University of Sydney 2006, Australia
3
Guest observer at Konkoly Observatory, Hungary
4
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, CSIC, PO Box 3004, 18080 Granada, Spain
5
Astronomical Observatory, Szeged, Hungary
6
Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, PO Box 67, 1525 Budapest, Hungary
Corresponding author: L. L. Kiss, laszlo@physics.usyd.edu.au
Received:
20
January
2003
Accepted:
21
February
2003
We present new photometric data for seven high-amplitude δ Scuti stars. The observations were acquired between 1996 and 2002, mostly in the Johnson photometric system. For one star (GW UMa), our observations are the first since the discovery of its pulsational nature from the Hipparcos data. The primary goal of this project was to update our knowledge on the period variations of the target stars. For this, we have collected all available photometric observations from the literature and constructed decades-long O-C diagrams of the stars. This traditional method is useful because of the single-periodic nature of the light variations. Text-book examples of slow period evolution (XX Cyg, DY Her, DY Peg) and cyclic period changes due to light-time effect (LITE) in a binary system (SZ Lyn) are updated with the new observations. For YZ Boo, we find a period decrease instead of increase. The previously suggested LITE-solution of BE Lyn (Kiss & Szatmáry [CITE]) is not supported with the new O-C diagram. Instead of that, we suspect the presence of transient light curve shape variations mimicking small period changes.
Key words: stars: variables: general / stars: oscillations / δ Sct
© ESO, 2003
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