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Photometry Of Type Ii Cepheid Candidates From The Northern Part Of The All Sky Automated Survey, Edward G. Schmidt, Brian Hemen, Danielle Rogalla, Lauren Thacker-Lynn, University Of Nebraska - Lincoln

Edward Schmidt Publications

We have obtained VR photometry of 282 Cepheid variable star candidates from the northern part of the All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS). These together with data from the ASAS and the Northern Sky Variability Survey (NSVS) were used to redetermine the periods of the stars. We divided the stars into four groups based on location in a plot of mean color, (V − R), versus period. Two of the groups fell within the region of the diagram containing known type II Cepheids and yielded 14 new highly probable type II Cepheids. The properties of the remaining stars in these two …