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We present a search and analysis of variable stars in the recently discovered Crater~II dwarf galaxy. Based on $B$, $V$, $I$ data collected with the Isaac Newton Telescope (FoV$\sim$0.44 square degrees) we detected 37 variable stars, of…

The Galaxy Evolution Exporer (GALEX) has performed unprecedented imaging surveys of the Magellanic Clouds (MC) and their surrounding areas including the Magellanic Bridge (MB) in near-UV (NUV, 1771-2831\AA) and far-UV (FUV, 1344-1786\AA)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-01-29 Raymond Simons , David Thilker , Luciana Bianchi , Ted Wyder

We have carried out a Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) Cycle 1 guest investigator program covering 56 square degrees near the Taurus T association and 12 square degrees along the northern edge of the Upper Scorpius OB association. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-23 Krzysztof Findeisen , Lynne Hillenbrand

Most of the sources detected in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV; 100 Ang to 600 Ang) by the Rosat WFC and EUVE all-sky surveys have been identified with active late-type stars and hot white dwarfs that are near enough to escape absorption by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Dan Maoz , Eran Ofek , Amotz Shemi

We present the identifications of a flux-limited sample of highly variable X-ray sources on long time-scales from the second catalogue of the XMM$-$Newton SLew survey (XMMSL2). The carefully constructed sample, comprising 265 sources (2.5…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-12 Dongyue Li , R. L. C. Starling , R. D. Saxton , Hai-Wu Pan , Weimin Yuan

We present an analysis of the broadband UV/optical properties of z<3.4 quasars matched in the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) General Data Release 1 (GR1) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 3 (SDSS DR3). Of the 6371 DR3 quasars…

We analyze 359 ultraviolet tiles from the All Sky Imaging Survey of the space mission GALEX covering roughly 400 square degrees toward the Orion star-forming region. There is a total of 1,555,174 ultraviolet sources that were cross-matched…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-03 Nestor Sanchez , Ana Ines Gomez de Castro , Fatima Lopez-Martinez , Javier Lopez-Santiago

We present our new, spatially-resolved, photometry in FUV and NUV from images obtained by GALEX, and IRAC1 (3.6 $\mu$m) photometry obtained by the Spitzer Space Telescope. We analyzed the surface brightness profiles $\mu_{\rm{FUV}}$,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-29 Alexandre Y. K. Bouquin , Armando Gil de Paz

With assistance of the identified/associated sources in the second Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog, we analyze and resolve the spatial distribution and the distributions of the gamma-ray spectral and variability indices of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Zhu Mao , Yun-Wei Yu

We have observed four low-luminosity active galactic nuclei classified as Type 1 LINERs with the X-ray Telescope (XRT) and the UltraViolet-Optical Telescope (UVOT) onboard Swift, in an attempt to clarify the main powering mechanism of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Elena Pian , Patrizia Romano , Dan Maoz , Antonino Cucchiara , Claudio Pagani , Valentina La Parola

A wide range of phenomena, from explosive transients to active galactic nuclei, exhibit variability at radio wavelengths on timescales of a few years. Characterizing the rate and scale of variability in the radio sky can provide keen…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-21 Yjan A. Gordon , Peter S. Ferguson , Michael N. Martinez , Eric J. Hooper

Theoretical predictions of the population of Galactic symbiotic stars (SySts) are highly inconsistent with the current known population. Despite intense effort over the past decades, observations are still far below the predictions. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-20 Stavros Akras

The recent detection of extended $\gamma$-ray emission around middle-aged pulsars is interpreted as inverse-Compton scattering of ambient photons by electron-positron pairs escaping the pulsar wind nebula, which are confined near the system…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-12 S. Abdollahi , F. Acero , A. Acharyya , A. Adelfio , M. Ajello , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , C. Bartolini , J. Becerra Gonzalez , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , R. Bonino , P. Bruel , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , D. Castro , E. Cavazzuti , C. C. Cheung , N. Cibrario , S. Ciprini , G. Cozzolongo , P. Cristarella Orestano , A. Cuoco , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , N. Di Lalla , A. Dinesh , L. Di Venere , A. Domínguez , A. Fiori , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , C. Gasbarra , D. Gasparrini , S. Germani , F. Giacchino , N. Giglietto , M. Giliberti , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , D. Green , I. A. Grenier , L. Guillemot , S. Guiriec , R. Gupta , M. Hashizume , E. Hays , J. W. Hewitt , D. Horan , X. Hou , T. Kayanoki , M. Kuss , A. Laviron , M. Lemoine-Goumard , A. Liguori , J. Li , I. Liodakis , P. Loizzo , F. Longo , F. Loparco , L. Lorusso , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , S. Maldera , D. Malyshev , G. Martí-Devesa , P. Martin , M. N. Mazziotta , I. Mereu , P. F. Michelson , N. Mirabal , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , P. Monti-Guarnieri , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , M. Negro , N. Omodei , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , D. Paneque , G. Panzarini , M. Persic , M. Pesce-Rollins , R. Pillera , T. A. Porter , S. Rainò , R. Rando , M. Razzano , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , M. Rocamora Bernal , M. Sánchez-Conde , P. M. Saz Parkinson , D. Serini , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , D. A. Smith , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , A. W. Strong , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , J. B. Thayer , D. F. Torres , J. Valverde , Z. Wadiasingh , K. Wood , G. Zaharijas

We report the detection of variable stars within a 11.5' x 11.5' region near the Galactic centre (GC) that includes the Arches and Quintuplet clusters, as revealed by the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey. There are 353 sources…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 C. Navarro Molina , J. Borissova , M. Catelan , P. W. Lucas , N. Medina , C. Contreras Pena , R. Kurtev , D. Minniti

We search for extragalactic sources in the VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea survey that are hidden by the Galaxy. Herein, we describe our photometric procedure to find and characterize extragalactic objects using a combination of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-10 Laura D. Baravalle , M. Victoria Alonso , José L. Nilo Castellón , Juan C. Beamín , Dante Minniti

We identified Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) candidates as counterparts to unidentified gamma-ray sources (UGS) from the Fermi-LAT Fourth Source Catalogue at lower Galactic latitudes. Our methodology is based on the use of near- and…

Blazars, the peculiar class of active galactic nuclei (AGN), are known to show flux variations across the accessible electromagnetic spectrum. Though they have been studied extensively for their flux variability characteristics across…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-13 M. Reshma , Aditi Agarwal , C. S. Stalin , Prajwel Joseph , Akanksha Dagore , Amit Kumar Mandal , Ashish Devaraj , S. B. Gudennavar

Compact steep-spectrum radio sources and giga-hertz peaked spectrum radio sources (CSS/GPS) are generally considered to be mostly young radio sources. In recent years we studied at many wavelengths a sample of these objects selected from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 C. Fanti , R. Fanti , A. Zanichelli , D. Dallacasa , C. Stanghellini

We have searched for variable stars in deep V-band images of a field towards the Galactic plane in Carina. The images were taken with VIMOS instrument at ESO VLT during 4 contiguous nights in April 2005. We detected 348 variables among…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Pietrukowicz , D. Minniti , J. M. Fernandez , G. Pietrzynski , M. T. Ruiz , W. Gieren , R. F. Diaz , M. Zoccali , M. Hempel

We present far-ultraviolet (FUV) imaging of the Hubble Deep Field North (HDF-N) taken with the Solar Blind Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS/SBC) and the FUV MAMA detector of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS)…