Bibcode
Arellano Ferro, A.; Arévalo, M. J.; Lázaro, C.; Rey, M.; Bramich, D. M.; Giridhar, S.
Bibliographical reference
Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica Vol. 40, pp. 209-221 (2004) (http://www.astroscu.unam.mx/~rmaa/)
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2004
Citations
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Description
We report the results of CCD V and R photometry of the RRstars known in
NGC4147. The periodicities of most variables are revised and new
ephemerides are calculated. The Blazhko effect has been detected in V2
and V6. Three previously reported variables; V5, V9, and V15 are found
to be non-variable. A new variable V18 was discovered with a period of
0.49205 days and an amplitude of 0.15. Using the approach of Fourier
decomposition of the light curves, the physical parameters of the RRab
and RRc variables were estimated. The cluster is of the Oosterhoff type.
With the newly values [Fe/H]= -1.22+/-0.31 and 16.8+/-1.3, the cluster
fits very well into the Oosterhoff type-metallicity and
metallicity-temperature sequence found in globular clusters. A
comparison with ZAHB models indicates that the RRab stars have not yet
evolved off the horizontal branch, a result consistent with the mean
period of the RRab variables and with the metallicity of the cluster
derived in this work.