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We have studied the photometric variability of ten SMC Be/X-ray pulsars using MACHO and OGLE-II data. For some of these systems we have found periodic behavior, including orbital outbursts and/or nonradial pulsations (NRP) of the Be star.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. C. Schmidtke , A. P. Cowley

We report on the full analysis of a Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) Proportional Counter Array (PCA) monitoring of the {\gamma}-ray binary system LS I +61 303. The data set covers 42 contiguous cycles of the system orbital motion.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Jian Li , Diego F. Torres , Shu Zhang , Yupeng Chen , Daniela Hadasch , Paul S. Ray , Peter Kretschmar , Nanda Rea , Jianmin Wang

We present photometric and spectroscopic follow-up observations of short-period variables discovered in the OmegaWhite survey: a wide-field high-cadence g-band synoptic survey targeting the Galactic Plane. We have used fast photometry on…

To study the variability of the 523 B and Be stars observed in the Magellanic clouds with the VLT-FLAMES, we cross-matched the stars of our sample with the photometric database MACHO, which provides for each star an 8 years lightcurve. We…

Context: Stellar pulsations in main-sequence B-type stars are driven by the kappa-mechanism due to the Fe-group opacity bump. The current models do not predict the presence of instability strips in the B spectral domain at very low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. D. Diago , J. Gutierrez-Soto , J. Fabregat , C. Martayan

We present the results of our monitoring program to study the long-term variability of the Halpha line in high-mass X-ray binaries. We have carried out the most complete optical spectroscopic study of the global properties of high-mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-01 P. Reig , A. Nersesian , A. Zezas , L. Gkouvelis , M. J. Coe

We present the results of an extensive analysis of the optical, ultraviolet, X-ray and $\gamma$-ray data collected from the observations of the BL Lac objects prototype BL Lacertae carried out over a period of nearly 13 years, between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 N. Sahakyan , P. Giommi

Context. Plaskett's star (HD47129) is a very massive O-star binary in a post Roche-lobe overflow stage. CoRoT observations of this system revealed photometric variability with a number of frequencies. Aims. The aim of this paper is to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Matthieu Palate , Gregor Rauw

Long secondary period (LSP) variable stars are a subclass of long-period variables (LPV) that exhibit additional long-term variability alongside pulsations. Despite being observed in over 30% of LPVs, the reason behind the LSP phenomenon is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 P. Iwanek , D. M. Skowron , G. Pojmański , I. Soszyński

We report the results of 24 years of photometric and spectroscopic monitoring of CI Cam since its outburst in 1998. In the early years of our research, we identified a system component responsible for the emission of the He II 4686 line,…

BL Lac has entered an active state since 2020, with multiwavelength observations revealing intense flares. In this study, we conducted 12-night multicolor optical monitoring using an 85 cm telescope from 2020 September to 2024 June and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-05 Hanxiao Xia , Ziming Wang , Jianghua Wu , Yue Fang , Shiyu Du

Multi-color photometric light curves of NO Cam in $V$ $R_C$ and $I_C$ bands are obtained and analyzed simultaneously using the Wilson-Devinney (W-D) program. The solutions suggest that NO Cam is an A-subtype overcontact binary with its mass…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-17 Xiao Zhou , Shengbang Qian , Bin Zhang

Pulsation period of Cepheids should change as stars evolve through the instability strip. Rates of these changes found by other authors based on the decades-long O-C diagrams show rather good agreement with theoretical predictions. We have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-21 Radoslaw Poleski

We have analysed the photometry of 924 type II Cepheids from the Galactic bulge observed by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. Our goal was to detect and analyse various dynamical phenomena, including, e.g. multi-mode pulsation,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-28 R. Smolec , P. Moskalik , E. Plachy , I. Soszyński , A. Udalski

Be/X-ray binaries are the most numerous group of high-mass X-ray binaries. Their long-term optical and infrared variability reflects the evolution of the circumstellar disk around the luminous companion. This variability manifests…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 P. Reig , D. Blinov , A. Tzouvanou

We present the revised and high quality CCD time series observations in 2017 and 2018 of the W UMa-type contact binary BH~Cas. The combination of our new determinations of minimum times and those collected from the literatures reveal a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 Junhui Liu , Ali Esamdin , Yu Zhang , Chin-Ping Hu , Tingting Chen , Junbo Zhang , Jinzhong Liu , Zixi Li , Juanjuan Ren , Jie Zheng , Hubiao Niu , Chunhai Bai , Liang Ge

A fraction of the extreme horizontal branch stars of globular clusters exhibit a periodic light variability that has been attributed to rotational modulation caused by surface spots. These spots are believed to be connected to inhomogeneous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-22 J. Krticka , I. Krtickova , C. Moni Bidin , M. Kajan , S. Zaggia , L. Monaco , J. Janik , Z. Mikulasek , E. Paunzen

We report the discovery of a new short period pulsating variable in the field of exoplanet host star XO-2. Variable has been identified while it was being used as a comparison star. In order to verify the variability of the candidate, a…

We report the discovery of two new variable stars in the metal-poor globular cluster NGC 288, found by means of time-series CCD photometry. We classified the new variables as SX Phoenicis due to their characteristic fundamental mode periods…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 E. Martinazzi , S. O. Kepler , J. E. S. Costa , A. Pieres , C. Bonatto , E. Bica , L. Fraga

Among active galactic nuclei, blazars show extreme variability properties. We here investigate the case of the BL Lac object S4 0954+65 with data acquired in 2019-2020 by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and by the Whole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 C. M. Raiteri , M. Villata , V. M. Larionov , S. G. Jorstad , A. P. Marscher , Z. R. Weaver