The Macho Project Large Magellanic Cloud Variable Star Inventory. Xiii. Fourier Parameters for the First Overtone Rr Lyrae Variables and the Lmc Distance

Shapes of RR Lyrae light curves can be described in terms of Fourier coefficients which past research has linked with physical characteristics such as luminosity, mass Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550 Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, 550 West 120th Street, Mailcode 5247, New York, NY 10027 Email: [email protected] Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ 07974 Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto ON, M5S 3H8, Canada Email: [email protected], [email protected] Departmento de Astronomia, Pontifica Universidad Católica, Casilla 306, Santiago 22, Chile Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Weston Creek, Canberra, ACT 2611, Australia Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Department of Physics, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0354 Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, Karl-Schwarschild-Str. 1, Postfach 1317, 85741 Gärching, Germany European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzchild-Str. 2, 85748 Gärching, Germany