Discovery of a new group of double-periodic RR Lyrae stars in the OGLE-IV photometry

Netzel, Henryka and Smolec, R. and Dziembowski, W. (2015) Discovery of a new group of double-periodic RR Lyrae stars in the OGLE-IV photometry. MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY: LETTERS, 451 (1). pp. 25-29. ISSN 1745-3925

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Abstract

We report the discovery of a new group of double-periodic RR Lyrae stars from the analysis of the OGLE-IV Galactic bulge photometry. In 11 stars identified in the OGLE catalog as first overtone pulsators (RRc stars) we detect additional longer period variability of low amplitude, in the mmag regime. One additional star of the same type is identified in a published analysis of the Kepler space photometry. The period ratio between the shorter first overtone period and a new, longer period lies in a narrow range around 0.686. Thus, the additional period is longer than the expected period of the undetected radial fundamental mode. The obvious conclusion that addition periodicity corresponds to a gravity or a mixed mode faces difficulties, however.

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