The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds. II. Single-Mode Second Overtone Cepheids in the Small Magellanic Cloud

1999/03/25 by A. Udalski, I. Soszynski, Udalski, A. +11
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9903393

13 pages, one JPG figure, Latex+psfig. Acta Astronomica, 49, 45. Full resolution Figure 1 is available from the OGLE archive ftp://sirius.astrouw.edu.pl/ogle/ogle2/var_stars/smc/cep/socep Revised version. Minor changes

arxiv created 1999/04/06 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We present a sample of 13 candidates for single-mode second overtone Cepheids discovered in the 2.4 square degree area of the SMC bar during the OGLE microlensing search. All candidates passed four photometric tests: analysis of Fourier parameters of the light curve, R₂1 and ϕ₂1, position in the period-luminosity diagram and location in the color-magnitude diagram. The stars form a very homogeneous group of objects with very similar light curves of low amplitude and almost sinusoidal shape. Their color indices B-V and V-I are also very similar and the objects determine the observational blue edge of the instability strip of the first overtone Cepheids. This is the first firm sample of the single-mode second overtone Cepheids detected so far.

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