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The separation of RR ab variables into two sequences on the amplitude-period diagram was found by Belserene (1954) for globular cluster variables, and by Detre (1965) for field variables. It is significant that the sequence of short period variables is steeper on this diagram than that for stars of longer period. Szeidl (1965) pointed out that other characteristics of the light curves and photometric quantities such as the asymmetry of light curve ε, mean color index B-V, median magnitude m med, maximum magnitude m max are also separated into distinct sequences. Figures 1, 2 and 3 show these sequences on the colour-magnitude, colour-period, period-amplitude (or period-maximum magnitude, minimum magnitude) diagrams for RR ab variables in the globular clusters M3, ω Cen and in the dwarf galaxy in Draco. On these figures RR ab variables of the long period sequence are marked by crosses. The colour-magnitude and colour-period diagrams for M3 were obtained by Roberts and Sandage (1955); the period-maximum magnitude, minimum magnitude diagram obtained by Szeidl (1965) is constructed for stars measured by Roberts and Sandage. To get the most accurate V-magnitudes and colour indices for variables in ω Cen the data of Dickens and Saunders (1965) and Geyer and Szeidl (1970) have been averaged. The diagrams for RR Lyr variables in the Draco system were obtained by Baade and Swope (1961). The variables which show the Blazhko effect were excluded.
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Goranskij, V.P. (1973). Possible Evolutionary Interpretation of the Dependences on the Diagrams for RR Lyrae Variables. In: Fernie, J.D. (eds) Variable Stars in Globular Clusters and in Related Systems. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2590-4_30
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