1203.6682 (A. Gallenne et al.)

Mean angular diameters, distances and pulsation modes of the classical Cepheids FF Aql and T Vul - CHARA/FLUOR near-infrared interferometric observations    [PDF]

A. Gallenne, P. Kervella, A. Mérand, H. McAlister, T. ten Brummelaar, V. Coudé du Foresto, J. Sturmann, L. Sturmann, N. Turner, C. Farrington, P. J. Goldfinger

We report the first angular diameter measurements of two classical Cepheids, FF Aql and T Vul, that we have obtained with the FLUOR instrument installed at the CHARA interferometric array. We obtain average limb-darkened angular diameters of \theta_LD = 0.878 +/- 0.013 mas and \theta_LD = 0.629 +/- 0.013 mas, respectively for FF Aql and T Vul. Combining these angular diameters with the HST-FGS trigonometric parallaxes leads to linear radii R = 33.6 +/- 2.2 Rsol and R = 35.6 +/- 4.4 Rsol, respectively. The comparison with empirical and theoretical Period-Radius relations leads to the conclusion that these Cepheids are pulsating in their fundamental mode. The knowledge of the pulsation mode is of prime importance to calibrate the Period-Luminosity relation with a uniform sample of fundamental mode Cepheids.

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