A Very Metal-poor RR Lyrae Star with a Disk Orbit Found in the Solar Neighborhood

A New Analysis of RR Lyrae Kinematics in the Solar Neighborhood

Cygni , a second overtone field RR Lyrae star

We present the first (as of February, 1999) UBV and uvby photometric measurements for the short period variable star V2109 Cyg discovered by the Hipparcos satellite and classified as a field RRc variable. We have obtained new times of maxima and the period change has been studied. We determined the fundamental physical parameters using the geometric distance of the star and the most recent synt...

The Blazhko Effect of the RR Lyrae Star FM Persei

We have obtained 615 new V and R observations of the RR Lyrae star FM Per. A period search identified a primary period of 0.489256 days; however, the light curve of FM Per cannot be well described by a single period. We conclude that FM Per demonstrates the Blazhko effect with a Blazhko period of approximately 122 days.

Boron in the very metal - poor star BD − 13 3442 ?

The Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been used to observe the boron 2500 Å region of BD −13 3442. At a metallicity of [Fe/H]=−3.00 this is the most metal-poor star ever observed for B. Nearly 26 hours of exposure time resulted in a detection. Spectrum synthesis using the latest Kurucz model atmospheres yields an LTE boron abundance of log (B)= ...

Lithium in very metal poor thick disk stars

A search for lithium is performed on seven metal poor dwarfs with metallicities ranging from [Fe/H]=-1.5 down to [Fe/H]=-3.0 but showing disk–like kinematics. These stars belong to the metal poor tail of the Galactic thick disk and they may be also the result of an accretion event (Beers and Sommer-Larsen 1995). The Li 6707.8 Å line is present in all the seven dwarfs. The weighted average of th...