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Published January 1, 2014 | Published + Submitted
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High-precision 2MASS JHK_s Light Curves and Other Data For RR Lyrae Star SDSS J015450 + 001501: Strong Constraints For Nonlinear Pulsation Models

Abstract

We present and discuss an extensive data set for the non-Blazhko ab-type RR Lyrae star SDSS J015450+001501, including optical Sloan Digital Sky Survey ugriz light curves and spectroscopic data, LINEAR and Catalina Sky Survey unfiltered optical light curves, and infrared Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) JHK_s and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer W1 and W2 light curves. Most notable is that light curves obtained by 2MASS include close to 9000 photometric measures collected over 3.3 yr and provide an exceedingly precise view of near-infrared variability. These data demonstrate that static atmosphere models are insufficient to explain multiband photometric light-curve behavior and present strong constraints for nonlinear pulsation models for RR Lyrae stars. It is a challenge to modelers to produce theoretical light curves that can explain data presented here, which we make publicly available.

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© 2014 The American Astronomical Society. Received 2013 September 27; accepted for publication 2013 November 4; Published 2013 December 13. Ž. Ivezić thanks the Hungarian Academy of Sciences for its support through the Distinguished Guest Professor grant No. E-1109/6/2012. A.C.B. and J.R.A.D. acknowledge support from NASA ADP grant NNX09AC77G. This project has been supported by the "Lendület-2009 Young Researchers" Program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the HUMAN MB08C 81013 grant of the MAG Zrt, the Hungarian OTKA grant K83790, and the KTIA URKUT_10-1-2011-0019 grant. R. Szabό was supported by the János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. This publication makes use of data products from the Two Micron All Sky Survey, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation. This publication also makes use of data products from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and NEOWISE, which are joint projects of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Funding for the SDSS and SDSS-II has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, the Max Planck Society, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The SDSSWeb site is http://www.sdss.org. The SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium for the Participating Institutions. The Participating Institutions are the American Museum of Natural History, Astrophysical Institute Potsdam, University of Basel, University of Cambridge, Case Western Reserve University, University of Chicago, Drexel University, Fermilab, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Japan Participation Group, Johns Hopkins University, the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics, the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, the Korean Scientist Group, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (LAMOST), Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), the Max-Planck- Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), New Mexico State University, Ohio State University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Portsmouth, Princeton University, the United States Naval Observatory, and the University of Washington.

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