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RV Tauri stars and Type II Cepheids in the LMC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Karen R. Pollard  and
T. Lloyd Evans
Karen R. Pollard
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
T. Lloyd Evans
Affiliation:
South African Astronomical Observatory, PO Box 9, Observatory 7935, South Africa

Abstract

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A review of the main results from the MACHO project for RV Tauri stars and Type II Cepheids in the LMC is presented. In light and colour curve behaviour, the RV Tauri stars appear to be a direct extension of the Type II Cepheids to longer periods. A single period–luminosity–colour relationship is seen to describe both the Type II Cepheids and RV Tauri stars in the LMC.

Follow-up low resolution spectroscopy of the LMC RV Tauri stars has been undertaken. The spectra of the longest period RV Tauri star in the MACHO sample show that this star has strong C2 bands with a pronounced phase dependence, their strength being greater at minimum light. This and other spectral features are similar to those observed in proto-planetary nebulae. This LMC star therefore appears to combine the main spectral anomaly of the proto-planetary nebulae with RV Tauri-like photometric variability. This is an intriguing result which indicates a possible link between RV Tauri stars and proto-planetary nebulae, and strengthens the post-AGB interpretation of the RV Tauri stars.

Type
Part 5. Non-Spherical Mass Loss, Binarity, Post-AGB Evolution
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 191: Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars , 1999 , pp. 459 - 464
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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