Results are presented of a study of the variable star populations in the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Leo I and in the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 6822, based on time series photometry obtained with the Wide Field Imager of the 2.2 m ESO/MPI telescope (Leo I) an
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002 yaM 72 1v6055030/hp-ortsa:viXraMem.S.A.It.Vol.73,23
cSAIt2002
L.Baldacci1,2,F.Matonti1,L.Rizzi3,G.Clementini2,E.V.Held3,Y.
Momany4,L.DiFabrizio5,andI.Saviane6
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DipartimentodiAstronomia,Universit`adiBologna,Bologna,Italy2
INAF,OsservatorioAstronomicodiBologna,Bologna,Italy3
INAF,OsservatorioAstronomicodiPadova,Padova,Italy4
DipartimentodiAstronomia,Universit`adiPadova,Padova,Italy5
TelescopioNazionaleGalileo,38700SantaCruzdeLaPalma,Spain6
EuropeanSouthernObservatory,Casilla19001Santiago,Chile
Abstract.ResultsarepresentedofastudyofthevariablestarpopulationsinthedwarfspheroidalgalaxyLeoIandinthedwarfirregulargalaxyNGC6822,basedontimeseriesphotometryobtainedwiththeWideFieldImagerofthe2.2mESO/MPItelescope(LeoI)andtheVeryLargeTelescope(NGC6822).Wefoundabout250(lowerlimit)variablesinLeoImostofwhichareRRLyraestars.InNGC6822weidenti ed450candidatevariablesamongwhichabout20areRRLyraestars,andmanyarelow-luminosity,small-amplitudeCepheids.Keywords.LocalGroupgalaxies–variablestars–stellarpopulations
1.Introduction
Variablestarsallowtosampledi erentstel-larpopulationsingalaxiesandtheirra-dialdistributions.TheRRLyraestarsandthePopulationIICepheidstracetheoldeststellarcomponent(age>10Gyr),whiletheAnomalousandClassicalCepheidstraceyoungerpopulationcomponents.
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