Period-Colour and Amplitude-Colour relations for OGLE-$\delta$ Scuti stars in the Galactic Bulge and LMC

Abstract

We present an analysis on the behaviour of the Galactic bulge and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) $\delta$ Scuti stars in terms of period-colour and amplitude-colour (PCAC) relations at maximum, mean and minimum light. The publicly available Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment-IV (OGLE-IV) light curves for Galactic bulge and OGLE-III light curves for LMC $\delta$ Scuti stars are exploited for the analysis. It has been found that the Galactic bulge $\delta$ Scuti stars obey flat PC relations at maximum/mean/minimum light while the LMC $\delta$ Scutis have sloped/sloped/flat PC relations at maximum/mean/minimum light. Both the Galactic bulge and the LMC $\delta$ Scutis have sloped/flat/sloped AC relations at maximum/mean/minimum. These relations also show that Galactic $\delta$ Scutis are hotter as compared to their LMC counterparts. The period-amplitude (PA) relations for $\delta$ Scutis exhibit different behaviour in the Galactic bulge and the LMC. The LMC variables are found to have higher amplitudes at a given period. The amplitude of the Galactic bulge $\delta$ Scuti shows a bimodal distribution which can be modelled using a two-component Gaussian Mixture Model: one component with a lower amplitude and another with a higher amplitude. The observed behaviour of the $\delta$ Scuti PCAC relations can be explained using the theory of the interaction of hydrogen ionization front (HIF) and stellar photosphere as well as the PA diagram. We use MESA-RSP to calculate theoretical non-linear hydrodynamical pulsation models for $\delta$ Scuti stars with input metallicities of $Z=0.02$ and $Z=0.008$ appropriate for the Galactic bulge and LMC, respectively. The observed PCAC relations and theoretical calculations support the HIF-photosphere interaction theory.

12 pages, 8 figures, accepted in MNRAS

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