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We present a long-term project aimed at completing the census of (bright) variable stars in Galactic globular clusters. While our main aim is to obtain a reliable assessment of the populations of RR Lyrae and type II Cepheid stars in the…

Acquiring near-infrared K-band (2.2 um) photometry for RR Lyrae variables in globular clusters and nearby galaxies is advantageous since the resulting distances are less impacted by reddening and metallicity. However, K-band photometry for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Daniel J. Majaess , David G. Turner , Wolfgang P. Gieren

We present the results of spectroscopic observations of eight globular cluster candidates in NGC147, a satellite dwarf elliptical galaxy of M31. Our goal is to make a complete inventory of the globular cluster system of this galaxy,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-04 Margarita Sharina , Emmanuel Davoust

This study presents a comparative analysis of mass-loss and dust-production rates in the dwarf galaxies NGC 147 and NGC 185, focusing on long-period variables (LPVs) and pulsating asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars as primary indicators of…

We present new time-series CCD photometry, in the B and V bands, for the moderately metal-rich ([Fe/H] ~ -1.3) Galactic globular cluster (GC) M62 (NGC 6266). The present dataset is the largest obtained so far for this cluster, and consists…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Contreras , M. Catelan , H. A. Smith , B. J. Pritzl , J. Borissova , C. A. Kuehn

Up-to-date isochrones, zero-age horizontal branch (ZAHB) loci, and evolutionary tracks for core He-burning stars are applied to the color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of M3, M15, and M92, focusing in particular on their RR Lyrae populations.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 Don A. VandenBerg , Pavel A. Denissenkov , Marcio Catelan

We present a comprehensive catalog of 2824 RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) residing in 115 Galactic globular clusters (GCs). Our catalog includes 1594 fundamental-mode (RRab), 824 first-overtone (RRc), and 28 double-mode (RRd) RRLs, as well as 378…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-15 Mauricio Cruz Reyes , Richard I. Anderson , Lucas Johansson , Henryka Netzel , Zoé Medaric

We present new BV CCD photometry, light curves, and ephemerides for 9 previously known, 29 newly detected RR Lyrae variables and one newly detected variable of an unknown type in the globular cluster M75. The photometry used for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. M. Corwin , M. Catelan , H. A. Smith , J. Borissova , F. R. Ferraro , W. S. Raburn

The All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) monitors bright stars (8 mag < V < 14 mag) south of declination +28 deg. The ASAS Catalogue of Variable Stars (ACVS) presently contains 50,099 objects; among them are 2212 objects classified as RR Lyrae…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. M. Szczygiel , D. C. Fabrycky

We have applied the image subtraction method to the M3 dataset previously analyzed by Corwin & Carney (2001; CC01). The new analysis produced light curves and periods for 15 variables, bringing to 222 the total number of RR Lyrae stars in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Clementini , T. M. Corwin , B. W. Carney , A. N. Sumerel

We search for RR Lyrae stars in 27 nearby ($<100$ kpc) ultra-faint dwarf satellite galaxies using the Gaia DR2 catalog of RR Lyrae stars. Based on proper motions, magnitudes and location on the sky, we associate 47 Gaia RR Lyrae stars to 14…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 A. Katherina Vivas , Clara Martínez-Vázquez , Alistair Walker

Recent surveys have detected RR Lyrae stars in M33, the Triangulum Galaxy. These variable stars are excellent tracers of ancient stellar populations. The RR Lyrae stars have been used to estimate metallicities at various locations within…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-03 Barton J. Pritzl

(Abridged) We present the results of a new search for variable stars in the Local Group (LG) isolated dwarf galaxy IC1613, based on 24 orbits of F475W and F814W photometry from the ACS camera onboard the HST. We detected 259 candidate…

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…

New BVRI broad-band photometry and astrometry are presented for the globular cluster NGC 4147, based upon measurements derived from 524 ground-based CCD images mostly either donated by colleagues or retrieved from public archives. We have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. B. Stetson , M. Catelan , H. A. Smith

We present the results of a photometric survey for variable stars in the central region of the nearby globular cluster NGC 6397.Time series photometry was obtained for 30 variable objects. The sample includes 12 new objects, of which 6 show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Kaluzny , I. B. Thompson , W. Krzeminski

Virgo III is a newly discovered ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) candidate, and finding RR Lyrae associated with this galaxy is important to constrain its distance. In this work, we present a search of RR Lyrae in the vicinity of Virgo III based on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-05-10 Chow-Choong Ngeow , Anupam Bhardwaj

We have surveyed Andromeda VI, a dwarf spheroidal galaxy companion to M31, for variable stars using F450W and F555W observations obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. A total of 118 variables were found, with 111 being RR Lyrae, 6…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Barton J. Pritzl , Taft E. Armandroff , George H. Jacoby , Gary S. Da Costa

The VISTA Variables in the V\'ia L\'actea (VVV) Survey is one of the six ESO public surveys currently ongoing at the VISTA telescope on Cerro Paranal, Chile. VVV uses near-IR ($ZYJHK_{\rm s}$) filters that at present provide photometry to a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 F. Gran , D. Minniti , R. K. Saito , C. Navarrete , I. Dékány , I. McDonald , R. Contreras Ramos , M. Catelan

In this paper we present an improved theoretical scenario concerning near infrared and visual magnitudes of RR Lyrae variables, as based on up-to-date pulsating models. On this basis, we revisit the case of the prototype variable RR Lyr,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Bono , F. Caputo , V. Castellani , M. Marconi , J. Storm , S. Degl'Innocenti