HD 240121 - An ACV variable showing anti-phase variations of the B and V light curves
- Author(s)
- Rainer Gröbel, Stefan Hümmerich, Ernst Paunzen
- Abstract
The variability of HD 240121 = BD+59 2602 was first suspected by Särg and Wramdemark (1970) and later confirmed by Gröbel R. (1992a,b). Because of the observed anti-phase variations of the B and V light curves, the latter author tentatively suggested an ACV type. Apart from its inclusion in the catalog of New Suspected Variables (NSV 25977), no further investigations of the star have been published. HD 240121 was included into our target list of ACV candidates and investigated in order to determine the reason for the observed brightness variations. All available information on HD 240121 were collected via an exhaustive data mining procedure. Data from Gröbel (1992a,b) were re-analysed and photometric observations from the NSVS and Hipparcos archives were procured and investigated. Line-of-sight reddening and stellar parameters were calculated from archival photometric data. HD 240121 is a young, late B-type CP2 star of the silicon subgroup. The observed period, amplitude of light variations and variability pattern (anti-phase variations) are typical of ACV variables. The occurrence of anti-phase variations of the B and V light curves is rarely observed and points to the existence of a null wavelength in the visual spectrum. We therefore strongly encourage further multi-colour photometric observations of this star.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Bundesdeutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Veränderliche Sterne e.V. (BAV), Masaryk University, American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
- Journal
- New Astronomy
- Volume
- 50
- Pages
- 104 - 108
- No. of pages
- 5
- ISSN
- 1384-1076
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newast.2016.07.012
- Publication date
- 01-2017
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103003 Astronomy, 103004 Astrophysics
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Space and Planetary Science
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/a96eaf6b-70f9-4a73-89bd-3bcd96c931f3