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Table 6

Linear rates of period change, P˙$\[\dot{P}\]$ measured by RV template fitting (extract).

Star P˙$\[\dot{P}\]$ (s yr−1) σP˙$\[\sigma_{\dot{P}}\]$ (s yr−1) Notes
AA Gem −1.721 0.102
AC Mon −0.453 0.294 Nlit = 1
AH Vel 0.238 0.091 non-linear
AK Cep −0.234 0.759
AN Aur 2.978 0.548 non-lin?
AO CMa 0.185 0.014 Nlit = 1, 3 points
AQ Car −0.669 0.031 non-linear
AQ Pup 26.128 5.126 non-linear
AV Cir 0.228 0.033
AV Sgr 36.292 46.894 noisy
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Notes. The full table listing all 146 Cepheids is available via the CDS. P˙$\[\dot{P}\]$ is measured at a significance exceeding 3σ for 80 (shown in Fig. 27. Nlit = 1 indicates that only one older literature epoch was available. ‘non-lin?’ indicates possible signs for non-linear period changes, ‘nonlinear’ indicates clear evidence for this. ‘noisy’ marks Δϕ sequences exhibiting high scatter. ‘3 points’ highlight stars with only few (3) epochs for determining P˙$\[\dot{P}\]$. ‘biased’ indicates results where the fit result may be affected by non-linear trends or uneven weights; ‘biased?’ indicates results where this is less clearly the case.

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