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We have undertaken a search for variable stars in the metal-rich globular cluster NGC 6441 using time-series BV photometry. The total number of variables found near NGC 6441 has been increased to ~104, with 48 new variables being found in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Barton J. Pritzl , Horace A. Smith , Marcio Catelan , Allen V. Sweigart

B and V photometry has been obtained for variable stars in the northeast arm of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Periods and lightcurves have been determined for 237 periodic variables, including 201 Cepheids, 68 of which are newly…

The Survey for Transiting Extrasolar Planets in Stellar Systems (STEPSS) project is a search for planetary transits in open clusters. In this paper, we analyze the STEPSS observations of the open cluster NGC 1245 to determine the variable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-09 Joshua Pepper , Chris Burke

We report the results of a diffraction-limited, photometric variability study of the central 5"x5" of the Galaxy conducted over the past 10 years using speckle imaging techniques on the W. M. Keck I 10 m telescope. Within our limiting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Rafelski , A. M. Ghez , S. D. Hornstein , J. R. Lu , M. Morris

We present a catalog of periodic stellar variability in the "Stripe 82" region of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). After aggregating and recalibrating catalog-level data from the survey, we ran a period-finding algorithm (Supersmoother)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. C. Becker , J. J. Bochanski , S. L. Hawley , Ž Ivezić , A. F Kowalski , B. Sesar , A. A. West

We present results of a Chandra observation of a field in NGC 2264. The observations were taken with the ACIS-I camera with an exposure time of 48.1 ks. We present a catalog of 263 sources, which includes X-ray luminosity, optical and…

We extract light curves for 4554 objects with $9<G<19$ in the K2 superstamp observations of the globular cluster M4, including 3784 cluster members, and search for variability. Among cluster member objects, we detect 66 variables, of which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Joshua J. Wallace , Joel D. Hartman , Gaspar A. Bakos , Waqas Bhatti

We present a sample of 59 periodic variables from the Palomar Transient Factory, selected from published catalogues of white dwarf (WD) candidates. The variability can likely be attributed to ellipsoidal variation of the tidally distorted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-18 Wil Kao , David L. Kaplan , Thomas A. Prince , Sumin Tang , Irina Ene , Kyu Bin Kim , David Levitan , Shrinivas R. Kulkarni , Russ R. Laher

Motivated by the detection of a recent outburst of the massive luminous blue variable LMC-R71, which reached an absolute magnitude M_V = -9.3 mag, we undertook a systematic study of the optical variability of 1268 massive stars in the Large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 D. M. Szczygiel , K. Z. Stanek , A. Z. Bonanos , G. Pojmanski , B. Pilecki , J. L. Prieto

[Abridged] We present the results of a Hubble Space Telescope snapshot program to survey the inner region of the globular cluster NGC 6441 for its variable stars. A total of 57 variable stars was found including 38 RR Lyrae stars, 6…

Based on one-month long MMT time-series observations of the open cluster M37, we monitored light variations of nearly 2500 red dwarfs and successfully identified 420 flare events from 312 cluster M dwarf stars. For each flare light curve,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-16 S. -W. Chang , Y. -I. Byun , J. D. Hartman

Results of a search for variable stars in the central region of the globular cluster M13 are presented. Prior to this study, 36 variable and suspected variable stars were known in this cluster (Osborn 2000; Clement et al. 2001). Of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Kopacki , Z. Kolaczkowski , A. Pigulski

(shorter version)The aim of this work is to search for planets around intermediate-mass stars in open clusters by using RV data obtained with HARPS from an extensive survey with more than 15 years of observations for a sample of 142 giant…

We present the results of a photometric survey for variable stars in the nearby globular cluster M5. A 14.8x22.8 arcmin^2 field centered on the cluster was monitored for a total of 37 hours with a CCD camera mounted on the 1.0-m Swope…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Kaluzny , I. Thompson , W. Krzeminski , W. Pych

We have carried out multi-epoch, time-series differential I-band photometry of a large sample of objects in the south-east region of the young (~3 Myr), nearby (~350 pc) sigma Orionis open cluster. A field of ~1000 arcmin^2 was monitored…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Caballero , V. J. S. Bejar , R. Rebolo , M. R. Zapatero Osorio

We present an extensive set of photometry and radial velocities for the detached eclipsing binary KV 29 in the intermediate-aged open cluster M11 (NGC 6705). Spectroscopy shows that the system is double-lined and all available evidence…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-19 Ernest A. Bavarsad , Eric L. Sandquist , Matthew D. Shetrone , Jerome A. Orosz

We present the results of a search for variable stars in a 26x39 arcmin^2 field around globular cluster M79 (NGC1904). The search was made by means of an extended version of image subtraction, which allows to analyze in a uniform manner CCD…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-31 Grzegorz Kopacki

M71 is a nearby, metal-rich globular cluster at low Galactic latitude, where field contamination and spatially variable extinction complicate colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) and the identification of cluster member variable stars. Our aims…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-13 C. C. Cortés , D. Deras , A. Arellano Ferro , S. Muneer , I. H. Bustos Fierro

We present X-ray spectral and timing analysis of members of the young open cluster IC 2391 observed with the XMM-Newton observatory. We detected 99 X-ray sources by analysing the summed data obtained from MOS1, MOS2 and pn detectors of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Marino , G. Micela , G. Peres , I. Pillitteri , S. Sciortino

We report the discovery of 3 new Double Periodic Variables based on the analysis of ASAS-SN light curves: GSD J11630570-510306, V593 Sco and TYC 6939-678-1. These systems have orbital periods between 10 and 20 days and long cycles between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-05 J. A. Rosales , R. E. Mennickent