Evidence for V363 Cas as a First Overtone Anomalous Cepheid

Abstract

V363 Cassiopeiae was observed through 51 acquisitions of each of V, B, i and z filters, during a 15 day observation window. From the observations, folded light curves were generated using a PDM technique. It was my objective to provide further evidence for this star’s reclassification as a first overtone Anomalous Cepheid, as some past papers have proposed (Fernley, 1998). Based on our light curve characteristics (shape, and period), V363 Cas appeared to favor the anomalous Cepheid class over any RR Lyrae class. My observed period of 0.545 days is higher than the typical range of periods for RRd Lyrae, reported between 0.25 and 0.49 days (Soszynski et al., 2008). The RRab type Lyrae, as some have imposed on V363 Cas (Kholopov et al., 1985), was ruled out due to the evidence for overtone pulsation by Hajdu et al. (Hajdu, Jurcsik, et al., 2009) and Fernley (Fernley, 1998). Finally, a rough distance comparison to GAIA, using Nemec’s 1994 P-L-[Fe/H] for Anomalous Cepheids (Nemec, Nemec, & Lutz, 1994), estimated the distance of V363 Cas to be closer to the distance estimated by GAIA than estimates made with RRd class equations.