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The Blazhko Effect in RR Lyrae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2018

Terry J. Teays
Terry J. Teays*
Affiliation:
Computer Sciences Corporation/IUE Observatory

Abstract

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The cause of the Blazhko effect, the long-term modulation of the light and radial velocity curves of some RR Lyr stars, is still not understood. The observational characteristics of the Blazhko effect are discussed in §1. Some preliminary results are presented from aomw recent of campaigns to observe RR Lyr, using the International Ultraviolet Explorer along with ground-based spectroscopy and photometry, throughout a pulsation cycle, at a variety of Blazhko phases. A set of ultraviolet light curves have been generated from low dispersion IUE spectra. In addition, the (visual) light curves from IUE's Fine Error Sensor are analyzed using the Fourier decomposition technique. The values of the parameters ϕ21 and R21 at different Blazhko phasas of RR Lyr span the range of values found for non-Blazhko variables of similar period.

Type
Windows on the Instability Strip
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 139: New Perspectives on Stellar Pulsation and Pulsating Variable Stars , 1993 , pp. 410 - 418
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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