New High-Amplitude SX Phoenicis (delta Scuti?) Star in the Direction of the Galactic Anti-Center: 2MASS 06451725+4122158

作者:Jeon Young Beom*; Kim Seung Lee; Nemec James M
来源:Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2010, 122(887): 17-26.

摘要

The results of extensive time-series photometry of a new variable star, 2MASS 06451725 + 4122158, are presented. The B, V observations (over 4000 individual measurements) were made over 23 nights between 2006 and 2007. To investigate the star's physical characteristics additional Stromgren photometric observations (uvbyH(beta)) were made on another four nights in 2007 and 2009. Thirteen frequencies were found from a multifrequency analysis of the V and B photometry. All but two of the frequencies, 19.99716 cycles day(-1) (corresponding to the pulsation period of 0.0500071 day) and 25.84662 cycles day(-1) (0.0386898 day), have been identified as combination frequencies. The ratio of the two frequencies, f(1)/f(3) = 0.77369, and their pulsation constants, Q(f(1)) = 0.034 and Q(f(3)) = 0.026, are well matched with theoretical values of the fundamental and the first-overtone radial modes. But the phase shift of f(3) was estimated to be a negative value, in contrast to that of f(1) to be positive, suggesting that f(3) may be a nonradial mode. The period versus amplitude diagram shows that the star has pulsational properties similar to those of high-amplitude SX Phonicis stars. We obtained its photometric properties from the Stromgren indices.a metal abundance of [Fe/H] = -0.6 dex, an absolute magnitude of M(V) 2.7 mag, a distance of similar to 1.6 kpc in the direction of the Galactic anticenter from the Sun, and a vertical distance from the Galactic plane of similar to 0.45 kpc. The tangential velocity of 78 km sec(-1), which was estimated from the proper motion and the distance, gives us a hint that the star may have high-space motion. Considering these observational properties, we suggest that this new variable is a field SX Phonicis-type star, although its metallicity value seems not to be low enough for matching the metallicity versus period relation. Future spectroscopic studies would be required to obtain the metallicity more accurately.

  • 出版日期2010-1