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RR Lyrae (RRL) variable stars are cornerstone distance indicators. In particular, double-mode RR Lyrae (RRd) stars enable period--luminosity relations (PLRs) that are less sensitive to metallicity, reducing systematic biases in distance…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 Jianxing Zhang , Xiaodian Chen , Shu Wang , Jiyu Wang , Licai Deng

We review ways in which observations of the changing periods of pulsating variable stars can be used to detect and directly measure their evolution. We briefly describe the two main techniques of analysis -- (O-C) analysis and wavelet…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-10 Hilding R. Neilson , John R. Percy , Horace A. Smith

We present a detailed lightcurve analysis for a sample of bright semiregular variables based on long-term (70--90 years) visual magnitude estimates carried out by amateur astronomers. Fundamental changes of the physical state (amplitude…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. L. Kiss , K. Szatmary , Gy. Szabo , J. A. Mattei

We present the catalog of RR Lyrae stars from 2.4 square degrees of central parts of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The photometric data were collected during four years of the OGLE-II microlensing survey. Photometry of each star was…

Stars pulsating in three radial modes are very rare; only three examples are known in the Galaxy. These stars are very useful since their periods may be measured very precisely, and this will constrain the global stellar parameters and the…

We present a phenomenological analysis of long-period variables (LPVs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud with the aim of detecting pulsation modes associated to different period-luminosity (PL) relations. Among brighter LPVs we discover a group…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 I. Soszynski , P. R. Wood , A. Udalski

RR Lyrae stars are one of the primary distance indicators for old stellar populations such as globular clusters, dwarf galaxies and galaxies. Typically, fundamental-mode RR Lyr stars are used for distance measurements, and their accuracy is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-21 Xiaodian Chen , Jianxing Zhang , Shu Wang , Licai Deng

[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…

We present the timing of the first five millisecond pulsars discovered in the globular cluster Omega Centauri and the discovery of a pulsar with a spin period of 3.68 ms. With a timing baseline of $\sim$3.5 yr we are able to measure the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-29 S. Dai , S. Johnston , M. Kerr , J. Berteaud , B. Bhattacharyya , F. Camilo , E. Keane

The OGLE project led to discovery of earlier unknown forms of multiperiodic pulsation in Cepheids. Often, the observed periods may be explained in terms of simultaneous excitation of two or rarely three radial modes. However, a secondary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-06 W. A. Dziembowski

The Fourier-discrete-peridogram are used to identify pulsation modes in variables. We have found two pulsation modes in V1 and V2 among 13 new variables as described by Abbas et al.. The five variables V9 to V13 are not shown close to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-30 Gireesh C. Joshi , R. K. Tyagi

Classical Cepheids and RR Lyrae-type stars are usually considered to be textbook examples of purely radial, strictly periodic pulsators. Not all the variables, however, conform to this simple picture. In this review I discuss different…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 P. Moskalik

We present time-series B, V photometry of NGC 6229, obtained with the purpose of providing the first extensive CCD variability study of this cluster. As a result, we were able to obtain periods for all NGC 6229 variables, with the exception…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. Borissova , M. Catelan , T. Valchev

During the analysis of RR Lyrae stars discovered in the High cadence Transient Survey (HiTS) taken with the Dark Energy Camera at the 4-m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, we found a group of three very distant,…

We present a CCD survey of variable stars in the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy. This survey, which has the largest areal coverage since the original variable star survey by Baade & Swope, includes photometry for 270 RR Lyrae stars, 9…

We have discovered both intermediate-order gravity mode and low-order pressure mode pulsation in the same star, HD 209295. It is therefore both a Gamma Doradus and a Delta Scuti star, which makes it the first pulsating star to be a member…

Globular clusters offer a powerful way to test the properties of stellar populations and the late stages of low-mass stellar evolution. In this paper we study oscillating giant stars and overtone RR Lyrae-type pulsators in the nearest…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-15 László Molnár , Henryka Netzel , Madeline Howell , Csilla Kalup , Meridith Joyce

The first calibrated broadband BVI time-series photometry is presented for the variable stars in NGC 2808, with observations spanning a range of twenty-eight years. We have also redetermined the variability types and periods for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Andrea Kunder , Peter B. Stetson , Marcio Catelan , Alistair R. Walker , Pia Amigo

We analyse time-series observations from the BRITE-Constellation of the well known $\beta$ Cephei type star $\theta$ Ophiuchi. Seven previously known frequencies were confirmed and nineteen new frequency peaks were detected. In particular,…