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Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-12 P. Pietrukowicz , D. Minniti , J. Alonso-Garcia , M. Hempel

We have conducted a deep photometric survey of a 0.5 deg x 0.5 deg area of the Galactic Plane using the WFI instrument on the 2.2-m ESO telescope on La Silla, Chile. The dataset comprises a total of 267 R-band images, 204 from a 16 day…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 V. R. Miller , M. D. Albrow , C. Afonso , Th. Henning

This project is a massive near-infrared (NIR) search for variable stars in highly reddened and obscured open cluster (OC) fields projected on regions of the Galactic bulge and disk. The search is performed using photometric NIR data in the…

The Quintuplet cluster is one of the most massive star clusters in the Milky Way, situated very close to the Galactic center. We present a new search for variable stars in the vicinity of the cluster, using the five-year database of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-26 C. Navarro Molina , J. Borissova , M. Catelan , J. Alonso-García , E. Kerins , R. Kurtev , P. W. Lucas , N. Medina , D. Minniti , I. Dékány

Recent wide-field photometric surveys which target a specific field for long durations are ideal for studying both long and short period stellar variability. Here we report on 75 variable stars detected during observations of a field in…

The stellar evolution theory of massive stars remains uncalibrated with high-precision photometric observational data mainly due to a small number of luminous stars that are monitored from space. Automated all-sky surveys have revealed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 Jaan Laur , Indrek Kolka , Tõnis Eenmäe , Taavi Tuvikene , Laurits Leedjärv

A photometric study of variable stars in the field of old open cluster NGC 188 is discussed. Observations were carried out in two bands R and I for 5513 stars up to R = 17 mag in the field of 1.5 x 1.5 grad. around the cluster. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-19 A. A. Popov , V. V. Krushinsky , E. A. Avvakumova , A. Y. Burdanov , A. F. Punanova , I. S. Zalozhnih

We report the detection of 1143 variable stars towards the Galactic bulge, including 320 previously uncatalogued variables, using time-series photometry extracted from data obtained with the VIMOS imager at the Very Large Telescope.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 N. Kains , A. Calamida , M. Rejkuba , A. Bhardwaj , L. Inno , K. C. Sahu , M. Zoccali , G. Bono , F. Surot , J. Anderson , S. Casertano

We present a collection of 450 598 eclipsing and ellipsoidal binary systems detected in the OGLE fields toward the Galactic bulge. The collection consists of binary systems of all types: detached, semi-detached, and contact eclipsing…

We present a catalog of 652 young stellar objects (YSOs) in the Carina star-forming region. The catalog was constructed by combining near-infrared Ks-band variability from the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea eXtended survey and…

A photometric survey of three Southern target fields with BEST II yielded the detection of 2,406 previously unknown variable stars and an additional 617 stars with suspected variability. This study presents a catalog including their…

We have conducted a 1.5 year-long variability study of the stars in the Cygnus OB2 association, the region in the northern hemisphere with the highest density of optically visible massive stars. The survey was conducted using four pointings…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-27 J. Salas , J. Maíz Apellániz , R. H. Barbá

This paper contains the fifth part of the Catalog of Variable Stars created from the V-band photometric data collected by 9x9 deg camera of the All Sky Automated Survey. Preliminary list of variable stars found in the fields located between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pojmanski , B. Pilecki , D. Szczygiel

We have conducted a wide-field photometric survey in a single 52'x52' field towards the Lupus Galactic Plane in an effort to detect transiting Hot Jupiter planets. The planet Lupus-TR-3b was identified from this work. The dataset also led…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 David T. F. Weldrake , Daniel D. R. Bayliss

We present a variable star catalog of an extensive ground-based wide-field variability survey in the globular cluster omega Centauri. Using the ANU 40-inch (1m) telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, the cluster was observed with a 52'x52'…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 David T. F Weldrake , Penny D Sackett , Terry J Bridges

In this paper, we report the detections of stellar variabilities from the first 2-year observations of sky area of about 1300 square degrees from the Tsinghua University-NAOC Transient Survey (TNTS). A total of 1237 variable stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Xinyu Yao , Lingzhi Wang , Xiaofeng Wang , Tianmeng Zhang , Juncheng Chen , Wenlong Yuan , Jun Mo , Wenxiong Li , Zhiping Jin , Xuefeng Wu , JunDan Nie , Xu Zhou

VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) is an ESO public near-infrared variability survey of the Galactic bulge and an adjacent area of the southern mid-plane. It will produce a deep atlas in the ZYJHKs filters, and a Ks-band time-series…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-09 I. Dekany , M. Catelan , D. Minniti , the VVV Collaboration

AST3-1 is the second-generation wide-field optical photometric telescope dedicated to time domain astronomy at Dome A, Antarctica. Here we present the results of $i$ band images survey from AST3-1 towards one Galactic disk field. Based on…

We present the first edition of a catalog of variable stars found in the Magellanic Clouds using OGLE-II data obtained during four years: 1997-2000. The catalog covers about 7 square degrees of the sky - 21 fields in the Large Magellanic…

V-band time-series CCD photometric observations of the intermediate-age open cluster M11 were performed to search for variable stars. Using these time-series data, we carefully examined light variations of all stars in the observing field.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. -R. Koo , S. -L. Kim , S. -C. Rey , C. -U. Lee , Y. H. Kim , Y. B. Kang , Y. -B. Jeon
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