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J/A+AS/116/497      Radial velocities of 4 Cepheids (Imbert, 1996)
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Cepheids and binarity. II. Radial velocities and spectroscopic orbits of four
galactic cepheids: RX Camelopardis, MW Cygni, Z Lacertae and U Vulpeculae
      Imbert M.
     <Astron. Astrophys. Suppl. Ser. 116, 497 (1996)>
     =1996A&AS..116..497I      (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
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ADC_Keywords: Binaries, spectroscopic ; Stars, variable
Keywords: stars: individual: RX Cam, MW Cyg, Z Lac, U vul - cepheids -
          binaries: spectroscopic

Description:
    Continued radial velocity observations over several years, have
    allowed to discover four spectroscopic binary systems among our sample
    of twenty five galactic Cepheids. Each system is composed by the
    Cepheid and an invisible probably hot dwarf star. A spectroscopic
    orbit has been determined for each system. The orbital periods for RX
    Cam, MW Cyg, Z Lac and U Vul are 1113, 439, 383 and 2510 days,
    respectively. For the pulsation motion, radial velocity versus phase
    diagram have been fitted by an analytic relation, formally similar to
    a Kepler motion. The stellar radius variation of each cepheid has been
    derived by integration of this relation over the whole pulsating
    period.

Objects:
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          RA  (2000)  DE        Name
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       04 04 58.4 +58 39 35     RX Cam = HD 25361
       20 12 22   +32 52.5      MW Cyg = HD 331970
       22 40 52.1 +56 49 46     Z Lac  = HD 214975
       09 33 13.2 -45 30 55     U Vel  = HD 82850
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File Summary:
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  FileName      Lrecl  Records   Explanations
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ReadMe             80        .   This file
table2             75      401   Observed and calculated radial velocities
table5             63      194   Pulsation component of the radial velocity
                                   (Coravel measures)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2
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   Bytes Format Units   Label      Explanations
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   1-  6  A6    ---     Name       Star name
   8- 18  F11.4 ---     OBSdate    UT date of observation (ddmmyy.hhmm).
  22- 33  F12.4 d       HJD        Heliocentric Julian date
  36- 41  F6.2  km/s    Vobs       Observed velocity
  44- 49  F6.2  km/s    Vcal       Calculated velocity (1)
  52- 57  F6.2  km/s    Vobs-Vcal  Observed - calculated radial velocity
      60  I1    ---     Ref        Source references (2)
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Note (1): Calculated velocity by superposition of the pulsation and orbital
           motion following:
     Vcal(t)=Vo+KP[eP(coswP)+cos(vP(t)+wP)]+Kb[eb(coswb)+cos(vb(t)+wb)]
               +KG[eG(coswG)+cos(vG(t)+wG)]
Note (2): References are: 
      (1) Coravel
      (2) Barnes et al. 1988   (1988ApJS...66...43B)
      (3) Evans & Welch 1993   (1993PASP..105..836E)
      (4) Gieren 1989          (1989PASP..101..160G)
      (5) Gorynya et al. 1992a (1992PAZh...18..777G)
      (6) Gorynya et al. 1992b (1992IBVS.3776....1G)
      (7) Joy 1937
      (8) Sanford 1951         (1951ApJ...114..331S)
      (9) Struve 1945
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table5
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   Bytes Format Units   Label     Explanations
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   1-  6  A6    ---     Name      Star name
   8- 18  F11.4 ---     OBSdate   Observation date (ddmmyy.hhmm)
  22- 33  F12.4 d       HJD       Heliocentric Julian date
  40- 45  F6.4  ---     Phase     [0/1[ Phase
  48- 53  F6.2  km/s    RVpul     Pulsation component of the radial velocity
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References:
  Barnes III T.G. et al., 1988, ApJS 66,43
  Evans N.R. & Welch D.L., 1993, PASP 105, 836
  Gieren W.P., 1989, PASP 101, 160
  Gorynya N.A. et al., 1992a, Pis'ma Astron. Zh. 18, 777
  Gorynya N.A. et al. 1992b, IBVS 3776
  Joy A.H., 1937, ApJ 86, 263
  Sanford R.F., 1951, ApJ 114, 331
  Struve O., 1945, ApJ 102, 132
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(End)                                         Patricia Bauer [CDS]   15-Mar-1996

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