A MAGYAR MITTEILUNGEN TUDOMANYOS AKADEMIA DER CSILLAGVIZSGALO STERNWARTE INTEZETENEK DER UNGARISCHEN AKADEMIE KOZLEMENYEI DER WISSENSCHAFTEN BUDAPEST - SZABADSAGHEGY Nr. 76. L. SZABADOS PHOTOELECTRIC UBV PHOTOMETRY OF NORTHERN CEPHEIDS, II BUDAPEST, 1980 ISBN 963 8361 02 6 osszkiadas HU ISSN 0324-2234 Felelos kiado: Szeidl Bela PHOTOELECTRIC UBV PHOTOMETRY OF NORTHERN CEPHEIDS, II ABSTRACT New UBV photoelectric observational data on 42 northern Cepheids with periods of 5-10 days are presented. The period changes and the variations in the light curve of the observed Cepheids are investigated. No secular light curve variation has been discovered. The O-C diagrams of CV Mon and RS Ori show a period jump and a subsequent rejump to the earlier value of the period. These two Cepheids as well as the shorter period ones with a rejumping period are probably members of binary systems. Another effect can be pointed out in AW Per and DD Cas which are also members of binary systems: the apparent period changes due to the orbital motion around the common centre of gravity can be seen. Both the orbital period and the value of a*\sin i can be determined for these latter two stars. The combined effect (i.e. the effect of the orbital motion and the rejumping period) can be seen in the O-C diagram of the short period Cepheid SU Cygni. INTRODUCTION This paper is the second part of a series dealing with the new UBV photometry of northern Cepheids performed at the Konkoly Observatory, and it contains the observational data and O-C diagrams of Cepheids with periods longer than 5 days but shorter than 10 days. The first part of this Cepheid survey included Cepheids with periods shorter than 5 days (Szabados 1977, hereinafter this paper is referred to as Paper I). The third part will cover the longest period Cepheids (P > 10 days). The original purposes outlined in Paper I were as follows: 1. To search for double-mode Cepheids in the northern sky; 2. To investigate period changes; 3. To examine secular variations of the light curves provided that they can be determined; 4. To obtain photoelectric light curves of those Cepheids which have not previously been observed photoelectrically. Since the existence of the beat phenomenon in the case of Cepheids with periods longer than five days is improbable, the first item may hardly be a real aim when observing Cepheids with periods as long as 5 days or more. Item 4 also has less importance because the overwhelming majority of the stars dealt with in this programme has been observed photoelectrically; however, photoelectric photometry of several faint Cepheids was carried out for the first time as recently as in the seventies (Pel 1976, Wachmann 1976). The major contribution of the present photoelectric observations towards developing our knowledge about the light curves of the Cepheids is that the observational points are well spread in phase on the normal light curves. There are at least a dozen Cepheids in this sample the periods of which are almost equal to an integer (e.g. VW Cas: P=5.994d; BK Aur: P=8.002d), thus it is impossible to obtain a complete light curve of these variables at a given geographical longitude during one observational season. The present photometry carried out between 1974 and 1978 yielded reliable photoelectric light curves for this rather arbitrary group too. After having revealed the existence of period rejumps in Paper I, the investigation of period changes is the most important purpose. The term rejump was introduced in Paper I. During the course of this present part of the work 42 Cepheids and one star which subsequently proved to be non-variable were observed. Of these 43 stars, 19 were observed in three colours of the UBV system, the other 24 in B and V lights only. THE OBSERVATIONS The stars dealt with in this programme were selected from the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Kukarkin et al. 1969- 1970) and from the current astronomical literature, with the restrictions that their declination should be north of 0 and B magnitude (or mpg for lack of photoelectric observations) at light minimum brighter than 12.5mag. This sample contains Cepheids strictions that their declination should be north of 0 and B of both populations with a period 5d