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This paper describes the second part of the photometric data from the 9x9 deg ASAS camera monitoring the whole southern hemisphere in the V-band. Preliminary list of variable stars based on observations obtained since January 2001 is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pojmanski

This paper describes the third part of the photometric data from the 9 x 9 deg ASAS camera monitoring the whole southern hemisphere in V-band. Preliminary list of variable stars based on observations obtained since January 2001 is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pojmanski , Gracjan Maciejewski

We characterise the variability in the physical properties of the luminous blue variable AFGL2298 between 1989-2008. In conjunction with published data from 1989-2001, we have undertaken a long term (2001-2008) near-IR spectroscopic and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. S. Clark , P. A. Crowther , V. M. Larionov , I. A. Steele , B. W. Ritchie , A. A. Arkharov

We describe an ongoing variable star search program and present the first reduced results of a search in a 19 square degree (4.4\circle x 4.4\circle) field centered on J2000 {\alpha} = 22:03:24, {\delta} = +18:54:32. The search was carried…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-01 Michael D. Williams , E. F. Milone

3C 66A was monitored by the BATC(Beijing-Arizona-Taipei-Connecticut) telescope from 2005 to 2008,1994 observations were obtained on 89 nights. Detailed research and analysis was performed on these observations in this paper. A long term…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-20 Shao Ming Hu , Jianghua Wu , H. Y. Guo , X. Zhou , X. Zhang , Y. G. Zheng

This paper is the first part of the Catalog of Periodic Variable Stars in the Galactic bulge. The Catalog is based on observations collected during the OGLE microlensing search. 213 periodic variable stars brighter than I=18 mag: 31…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. UDALSKI , M. KUBIAK , M. SZYMANSKI , J. KALUZNY , M. MATEO , W. KRZEMINSKI

Luminous Blue Variables (LBVs) are enigmatic, evolved, massive stars. Their variability has been observed to be episodic with large eruptions, along with variations on time-scales of days to decades. We have extracted light curves of 37…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-03 Becca Spejcher , Noel D. Richardson , Herbert Pablo , Marina Beltran , Payton Butler , Eddie Avila

We monitored BL Lacertae frequently during 2014 - 2016 when it was generally in a high state. We searched for intra-day variability for 43 nights using quasi-simultaneous measurements in the B, V, R, and I bands (totaling 143 light curves);…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Haritma Gaur , Alok C. Gupta , R. Bachev , A. Strigachev , E. Semkov , Paul J. Wiita , M. F. Gu , S. Ibryamov

We present 6 ASCA and SAX observations of 4 intermediate BL Lac objects (1034+5727, 1055+5644, 1424+2401, 1741+1936). Their X-ray spectral properties and spectral energy distributions are compared to typical X-ray and radio selected BL…

Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 J. Siebert , W. Brinkmann , M. Gliozzi , S. A. Laurent-Muehleisen , M. Matsuoka

Variable Star Network (VSNET, http://www.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp/vsnet/) is a global professional-amateur network of researchers in variable stars and related objects, particularly in transient objects, such as cataclysmic variables, black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 T. Kato , M. Uemura , R. Ishioka , D. Nogami , C. Kunjaya , H. Baba , H. Yamaoka

This study aims to assess the properties and classification of 55 variable stars in Scutum, little studied since their discovery and reported in the Information Bulletin on Variable Stars (IBVS) 985 and update. Using data from previous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-15 C. Crozza , S. Curelar , D. Dell'Aglio , F. La Scala , A. Millitari , A. Montella , C. Orobello , C. Benna , D. Gardiol , G. Pettiti , -

This article follows the scientific life of John Norris Bahcall, including his tenacious pursuit of the solar neutrino problem, his contributions to our understanding of galaxies, quasars, and their emissions, and his leadership of and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-15 W. C. Haxton

Cataclysmic variables are among the photometrically most unstable stars in the zoo of stellar objects, exhibiting light variations on all time-scales between millennia and seconds. The literature is full of reports on variable phenomena…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-17 Albert Bruch

VLA continuous monitoring of ER Vul during two 11.5 hour sessions in September 1995 in the radio continuum at 3.6 cm (X-band) showed a variation pattern similar to that observed in 1990 and 1991, but at a lower mean flux level. Simultaneous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Slavek M. Rucinski

As shown by Mennickent, et al(2003), a subset of the blue variable stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud exhibit brightness variability of small amplitude in the period range 2.4 to 16 days as well as larger amplitude variability with periods…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Robert Buchler , Peter R. Wood , R. E. Wilson

Guy Boistel questions the Sun / variable stars analogy at the heart of the work of Dutch astronomer Albert Brester. The problem of interdisciplinarity appears in the objectification of the Sun at the end of the 19th century: it is by mixing…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Guy Boistel

Cosmic rays with energies above $10^{19}$ eV, observed in 1999-2004 by the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) experiment in the stereoscopic mode, were found to correlate with directions to distant BL Lac type objects (BL Lacs), suggesting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-24 M. A. Kudenko , S. V. Troitsky

The studies of pulsating variable stars are traditional subjects of astronomers in Odessa. In the last half of the 20th century, the studies of the physical variable stars were the topics of 15 PhD theses of the collaborators of the Odessa…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-06 Larisa S. Kudashkina , Ivan L. Andronov , Vladislava I. Marsakova , Lidia L. Chinarova

Variable stars have a unique part to play in Galactic astronomy. Among the most important of these variables are the Cepheids (types I and II), the RR Lyraes and the Miras (O- and C-rich). The current status of the basic calibration of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Michael W. Feast , Patricia A. Whitelock

The variability of the high-frequency peaked BL Lac object PKS 2155-304 is studied using almost 10 years of optical, X-ray and gamma-rays data. Publicly available data have been gathered and analyzed with the aim to characterize the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-16 J. Chevalier , D. A. Sanchez , P. D. Serpico , J. -P. Lenain , G. Maurin