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Cepheids in M31 - The PAndromeda Cepheid sample

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2018-09-05 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

We present the largest Cepheid sample in M31 based on the complete Pan-STARRS1 survey of Andromeda (PAndromeda) in the rP1r_{\mathrm{P1}} , iP1i_{\mathrm{P1}} and gP1g_{\mathrm{P1}} bands. We find 2686 Cepheids with 1662 fundamental mode Cepheids, 307 first-overtone Cepheids, 278 type II Cepheids and 439 Cepheids with undetermined Cepheid type. Using the method developed by Kodric et al. (2013) we identify Cepheids by using a three dimensional parameter space of Fourier parameters of the Cepheid light curves combined with a color cut and other selection criteria. This is an unbiased approach to identify Cepheids and results in a homogeneous Cepheid sample. The Period-Luminosity relations obtained for our sample have smaller dispersions than in our previous work. We find a broken slope that we previously observed with HST data in Kodric et al. (2015), albeit with a lower significance.

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@article{arxiv.1806.07895,
  title  = {Cepheids in M31 - The PAndromeda Cepheid sample},
  author = {Mihael Kodric and Arno Riffeser and Ulrich Hopp and Claus Goessl and Stella Seitz and Ralf Bender and Johannes Koppenhoefer and Christian Obermeier and Jan Snigula and Chien-Hsiu Lee and W. S. Burgett and P. W. Draper and K. W. Hodapp and N. Kaiser and R. -P. Kudritzki and N. Metcalfe and J. L. Tonry and R. J. Wainscoat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.07895},
  year   = {2018}
}

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79 pages, 39 figures, 8 tables, accepted for publication in AJ, K18b is submittted to ApJ, electronic data will be available on CDS

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