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New Cepheid?



Yeah, I thought that might wake you guys up. :-)

I have been working on the database in preparation for this years data. 
As I was working on cleaning up the W-S stats, I ran across this star:
http://sallman.tass-survey.org/servlet/markiv/template/TassPlot.vm?object_id=6349369 
(Plot)
http://sallman.tass-survey.org/servlet/markiv/action/DataDownload?position=57.1069+59.4424
(Data)
The star is GSC 3729-1127. 2MASS J-K is .895.

Using both Patrick's PDM program and Period98, I get a period of approx. 
5 days. (there are a few slightly more significant frequencies, but they 
are all greater than the Nyquist freq.)
Could this be a Cepheid? The star is quite a bit redder than any of the 
other Cepheids in the area.

+---------+---------+---------+-------------+------------------+
| id      | ra      | decl    | v_avg-i_avg | comments         |
+---------+---------+---------+-------------+------------------+
| 6318548 | 50.9481 | 59.3552 |       1.675 | AC Cam -- DCEP   |
| 6318874 | 52.3567 | 60.4458 |       1.609 | AD Cam * -- DCEP |
| 6369151 | 54.0833 | 62.2882 |       1.466 | AM Cam -- CEP    |
| 6368297 | 56.5340 | 58.7840 |       1.291 | AB Cam * -- DCEP |
| 6349369 | 57.1069 | 59.4424 |       1.928 | NULL             |
| 6368677 | 58.5905 | 58.6535 |       1.459 | RW Cam * -- DCEP |
+---------+---------+---------+-------------+------------------+

Any thoughts?

Mike

P.S. I seem to recall a website that had plots of the Fourier 
coefficients for different variables (Cepheid, RR Lyr, Delta Sct, etc.), 
but I can't seem to find it again. Anyone know of such a site?