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Draft version September 16, 2008 A Preprint typeset using L T X style emulateapj v. 08/13/06 E ON THE ENHANCEMENT OF MASS LOSS IN CEPHEIDS DUE TO RADIAL PULSATION. II. THE EFFECT OF METALLICITY Hilding R. Neilson Department of Astronomy Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, Canada M5S 3H4 John B. Lester University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON, Canada L5L 1C6 Draft version September 16, 2008 8 0 ABSTRACT 0 It has been observed that Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds have lower masses for the same 2 luminosity than those in the Milky Way. The model, from Neilson Lester (2008), of pulsation– p driven mass loss for Cepheids is applied to theoretical models of Cepheids with metallicity consistent e with the Milky Way and Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. The mass–loss model is analyzed using S the metallicity correction of the Period–Luminosity relation to compare the ratio of mass loss of 6 Cepheids with lower metallicity to that of Cepheids with solar metallicity. It is determined that mass 1 loss may be larger for the lower metallicity Cepheids, counterintuitive to radiative driving estimates. −9 Also the mass–