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We study the variable star content of the globular cluster M53 to compute the physical parameters of the constituting stars and the distance of the cluster. Covering two adjacent seasons in 2007 and 2008, new photometric data are gathered…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Istvan Dekany , Geza Kovacs

JHKs magnitudes corrected to mean intensity are estimated for LMC type II Cepheids in the OGLE-III survey. Period-luminosity (PL) relations are derived in JHKs as well as in a reddening-free VI parameter. Within the uncertainties the BL Her…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Noriyuki Matsunaga , Michael W. Feast , John W. Menzies

We present the results of a commissioning campaign to observe Galactic globular clusters for the search of microlensing events. The central 10' X 10' region of the globular cluster NGC 5024 was monitored using the 2-m Himalayan Chandra…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Safonova , C. S. Stalin

The Fourier decomposition was applied to the light curves of the short period variable stars discovered by the OGLE team in Omega Cen. The phi_21 parameters are confined in a narrow strip for periods between 0.042 d and 0.07 d. Toward…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ennio Poretti

The field of the globular cluster M22 (NGC 6656) was monitored between 2000 and 2008 in a search for variable stars. $BV$ light curves were obtained for 359 periodic, likely periodic, and long-term variables, 238 of which are new…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 M. Rozyczka , I. B. Thompson , W. Pych , W. Narloch , R. Poleski , A. Schwarzenberg-Czerny

NGC 6388 and NGC 6441 are anomalies among Galactic globular clusters in that they cannot be readily place into either Oosterhoff group I or Oosterhoff group II despite their significant numbers of RR Lyrae variables. The mean pulsation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Barton Pritzl , Horace A. Smith , Marcio Catelan , Allen V. Sweigart

The light curves of Cepheids and other variable stars in Field A of IC 1613, obtained with a CCD and no filter ($Wh$ photometry), have been analyzed. It is possible to separate first overtone from fundamental mode population I Cepheids…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Antonello , L. Mantegazza , D. Fugazza , M. Bossi

The VVV is currently surveying the central regions of the Milky Way at near-infrared wavelengths, including 36 known Galactic globular clusters. We already have data in several filters to generate their color-magnitude diagrams. We also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-07-02 Javier Alonso-García , István Dékány , Márcio Catelan , Rodrigo Contreras Ramos , Dante Minniti

As a result of the reanalysis of the OGLE-I observations by means of the image subtraction method, we present the first part of a catalog, consisting of the data for variable stars in four Galactic fields observed by the OGLE-I, viz. MM1-A,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Pigulski , Z. Kolaczkowski , G. Kopacki

We present the results of our search for variable stars in the intermediate-age open cluster NGC 7789. We have found 45 variable stars: 35 eclipsing binaries, five pulsating variables and five miscellaneous variables. Most of the eclipsing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. J. Mochejska , J. Kaluzny

Context. RR Lyrae stars are useful standard candles allowing one to derive accurate distances for old star clusters. Based on the recent catalogues from OGLE-IV and Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3), the distances can be improved for a few…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-26 R. A. P. Oliveira , S. Ortolani , B. Barbuy , L. O. Kerber , F. F. S. Maia , E. Bica , S. Cassisi , S. O. Souza , A. Pérez-Villegas

Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars are important pulsating variable stars in distance scale work because they serve as standard candles. Cepheids follow well-defined period-luminosity (PL) relations defined for bands extending from optical to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Chow-Choong Ngeow , Wolfgang Gieren , Christopher Klein

$Context.$ Pulsating stars are windows to the physics of stars enabling us to see glimpses of their interior. Not all stars pulsate, however. On the main sequence, pulsating stars form an almost continuous sequence in brightness, except for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 N. Mowlavi , S. Saesen , T. Semaan , P. Eggenberger , F. Barblan , L. Eyer , S. Ekström , C. Georgy

The total-to-selective extinction RV in the direction of a cluster is found to be 3.12 +/- 0.2 (close to its normal value). We derive the luminosity and mass functions for the cluster main sequence stars. The mass function slope is found to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-14 Gireesh C. Joshi

We report on the discovery and analysis of 14 short-period variable stars in the field of the southern globular cluster NGC 3201, located within roughly two magnitudes on either side of the main-sequence turnoff. 11 of these variable stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kaspar von Braun , Mario Mateo

We report twelve variables not previously detected in the globular cluster M5 (NGC 5904); one SX Phe and eleven semi-regular variables (SR). Their identifications, equatorial coordinates, ephemerides, and light curves are given.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-16 A. Arellano Ferro , D. M. Bramich , S. Giridhar , A. Luna , S. Muneer

We present the first CCD photometric observations of the northern open cluster NGC 2126. Data were taken on eight nights in February and December 2002 with a total time span of ~57 hours. Almost 1000 individual V-band frames were examined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-09 A. Gaspar , L. L. Kiss , T. R. Bedding , A. Derekas , S. Kaspi , Cs. Kiss , K. Sarneczky , Gy. M. Szabo , M. Varadi

We present evidence that the globular cluster NGC 6397 contains two distinct classes of centrally-concentrated UV-bright stars. Color-magnitude diagrams constructed from U, B, V, and I data obtained with the HST/WFPC2 reveal seven UV-bright…

We present a search for variable stars in the Fornax dwarf galaxy covering an area of 1/2 a square degree. We have ~30 epochs of VI data. We found and determined periods for more than 500 RR Lyrae, 17 anomalous Cepheids, 6 Population II…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Bersier , P. R. Wood

In this work, we have studied the variable stars in the young open cluster NGC 1893 based on a multi-year photometric survey covering a sky area around the cluster up to $31' \times 31'$ wide. More than 23\,000 images in the $V$ band taken…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-07 Hui-Fang Xue , Jian-Ning Fu , Nami Mowlavi , Sophie Saesen , Fabio Barblan , Yong Yang , Jia-Shu Niu