THE ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL    VOLUME 114, NUMBER 3, PAGE 1190     SEPTEMBER 1997

                  NSV 09295: A DOUBLE-MODE RR LYRAE VARIABLE

                            ENRIQUE GARCIA-MELENDO

      Esteve Duran Observatory, Grup d'Estudis Astronomics, El Montanya,
                      Seva, 08533 Seva, Barcelona, Spain
                 Electronic mail: duranobs@astro.gea.cesca.es

                             CHRISTINE M. CLEMENT

                Department of Astronomy, University of Toronto,
                       Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H8, Canada
                  Electronic mail: cclement@astro.utoronto.ca


                                   ABSTRACT

     An analysis of more than 2000 CCD observations of the field RR Lyrae
     star NSV 09295 shows that the star is a double-mode RR Lyrae (RRd)
     variable with P0 = 0.46334 d and P1 = 0.34423 d. This brings the total
     of known field RRd stars in the Milky Way galaxy to four. These four
     variables are compared with the RRd stars in galactic globular
     clusters and with the field RRd stars in the LMC, and in the Draco and
     Sculptor dwarf galaxies. It appears that all known RRd stars have a
     metal abundance of less than [Fe/H] = -1.6. (c) 1997 American
     Astronomical Society.