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Le Borgne et al. (2007) report on the determination of evolutionary changes in the periods of field RR Lyr stars. Thanks to the extension of the GEOS database, we could analyze a sample twice larger than the previous one. We obtained a different picture of the period changes, with a number of stars showing an increasing period greater than that of stars showing a decreasing period.
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We present our results of searching for differences in light curves of modulated and non-modulated RRab stars in the Galactic bulge. We examined a sample of more than 8000 stars. The most important results are that Blazhko stars have shorter pulsation periods, less skewed mean light curves, lower mean amplitudes, larger rise-time, no difference in spatial distribution and metallicity.
We investigate atmospheric properties of 35 stable RRab stars that possess the full ranges of period, light amplitude, and metal abundance found in Galactic RR Lyrae stars. Our results are derived from several thousand echelle spectra obtained over several years with the du Pont telescope of Las Campanas Observatory. Radial velocities of metal lines and the Halpha line were used to construct curves of radial velocity versus pulsation phase. From these we estimated radial velocity amplitudes for metal lines (formed near the photosphere) and Halpha Doppler cores (formed at small optical depths). We also measured Halpha emission fluxes when they appear during primary light rises. Spectra shifted to rest wavelengths, binned into small phase intervals, and coadded were used to perform model atmospheric and abundance analyses. The derived metallicities and those of some previous spectroscopic surveys were combined to produce a new calibration of the Layden abundance scale. We then divided our RRab sample into metal-rich (disk) and metal-poor (halo) groups at [Fe/H]=-1.0. The atmospheres of RRab families, so defined, differ with respect to (a) peak strength of Halpha emission flux, (b) Halpha radial velocity amplitude, (c) dynamical gravity, (d) stellar radius variation, (e) secondary acceleration during the photometric bump that precedes minimum light, and (g) duration of Halpha line-doubling. We also detected Halpha line-doubling during the bump in the metal-poor family, but not in the metal-rich one. Though all RRab probably are core helium-burning horizontal branch stars, the metal-rich group appear to be a species sui generis.
New CCD photometry has been combined with published and unpublished earlier observations to study the three Cepheid variables in M13: V1, V2 and V6. The light curve characteristics in $B$, $V$ and $I_{rm C}$ have been determined and the periods updated. A period change analysis shows all three stars have increasing periods but for V1 and V2 the rate of period increase does not appear to be constant over the 118 years of observation. The observed rates of period increase are in good agreement with the predictions of the Pisa theoretical models with helium abundance $Y = 0.25$. Theory suggests V1 and V6 have masses of $sim0.57,M_odot$ and are in the redward-evolving final stage of the ``blue loop evolutionary phase that is produced when helium-shell ignition occurs. The larger period and period change rate for V2 indicate it has a mass of $sim0.52,M_odot$. A study of eighteen metal-poor BL Her stars shows the observed period changes for such objects in general can be reasonably well explained using the predictions from horizontal branch evolutionary tracks. BL Her stars with periods less than $sim$3 d and relatively large secular period change rates ($dP/dtapprox5-15$ d/Myr) are in the evolutionary stage before He-shell ignition; the remaining cases are stars that have already experienced He-shell ignition. Moreover, an analysis of crossing time through the instability strip indicates that it is likely that few, if any, BL Her stars have a He abundance as large as $Y = 0.33$.
We report here on two types of cyclic variations that can be observed in the periods of RR Lyr stars, i.e., the Blazhko and the light-time effects. The former has been investigated by studying the amplitude variations recorded in RR Lyr itself, firstly by Kepler and then by the network of the Very Tiny Telescopes (VTTs). The latter on the basis of the new spectroscopic observations of the most promising candidate, KIC 2831097. The start of the search for binary candidates in the RR Lyr stars observed with the TAROT telescopes is also announced.
We present UBVRI photometry of three symbiotic stars ZZ CMi, TX CVn and AG Peg carried out from 1997 to 2008 in Piwnice Observatory near Torun. To search orbital periods of these stars Fourier analysis was used. For two of them, TX CVn and AG Peg, we have confirmed the earlier known periods. For ZZ CMi we found a relatively short period 218.59 days. Assuming, that the orbital period is twice longer (P=437.18 days), the double sine wave in the light curve can be interpreted by ellipsoidal effect.
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