High-cadence stellar variability studies of RR Lyrae stars with DECam: New multi-band templates

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: High-cadence stellar variability studies of RR Lyrae stars with DECam: New multi-band templates
المؤلفون: Baeza-Villagra, K., Rodriguez-Segovia, N., Catelan, M., Rest, A., Papageorgiou, A., Martinez-Vazquez, C. E., Valcarce, A. A. R., Lopes, C. E. Ferreira, Bianco, F. B.
سنة النشر: 2025
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
الوصف: We present the most extensive set to date of high-quality RR Lyrae light curve templates in the griz bands, based on time-series observations of the Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS) East field, located in the Galactic bulge at coordinates (RA, DEC)(J2000) = (18:03:34, -29:32:02), obtained with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the 4-m Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO). Our templates, which cover both fundamental-mode (RRab) and first-overtone (RRc) pulsators, can be especially useful when there is insufficient data for accurately calculating the average magnitudes and colors, hence distances, as well as to inform multi-band light curve classifiers, as will be required in the case of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). In this paper, we describe in detail the procedures that were adopted in producing these templates, including a novel approach to account for the presence of outliers in photometry. Our final sample comprises 136 RRab and 144 RRc templates, all of which are publicly available. Lastly, in this paper we study the inferred Fourier parameters and other light curve descriptors, including rise time,skewness, and kurtosis, as well as their correlations with the pulsation mode, period, and effective wavelength.
Comment: 19 pages, 17 figures and 4 tables
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03813
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2501.03813
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv