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Long-term observational data have information on the magnetic cycles of active stars and that of the Sun. The changes in the activity of our central star have basic effects on Earth, like variations in the global climate. Therefore…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Z. Kolláth , K. Oláh

It is noted that the duration of a fast radio burst (FRB), about $10^{-3}$ s, is a smaller fraction of the time delay between multiple images of a source gravitationally lensed by a galaxy or galaxy cluster than the human lifetime is to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 Adi Zitrin , David Eichler

Context. Luminous blue variables (LBVs) are rare massive stars with very high luminosity. They are characterized by strong photo-metric and spectroscopic variability related to transient eruptions. The mechanisms at the origin of these…

We present the results of searches for correlation between ultra--high-energy cosmic rays observed in stereo mode by the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) experiment and objects of the BL Lac subclass of active galaxies. In particular, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Chad B. Finley , Stefan Westerhoff

Stars exhibit a bewildering variety of variable behaviors ranging from explosive magnetic flares to stochastically changing accretion to periodic pulsations or rotations. The principal LSST surveys will have cadences too sparse and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-24 Eric D. Feigelson , Frederica Bianco , Sara Bonito

We investigate the nature of the BL Lac candidates in the northern part of the 2BL sample (\cite{Londish02}) searching for optical variability by means of $R_C$ band photometry with the Asiago 1.8 and Loiano 1.5 meter telescopes during…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Nesci , S. Sclavi , E. Massaro

To search for optical variability on a wide range of timescales, we have carried out photometric monitoring of two flat spectrum radio quasars, 3C 454.3 and 3C 279, plus one BL Lac, S5 0716+714, all of which have been exhibiting remarkably…

We monitored BL Lacertae simultaneously in the optical B, V, R and I bands for 13 nights during the period 2012-2016. The variations were well correlated in all bands and the source showed significant intraday variability (IDV). We also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-23 Nankun Meng , Jianghua Wu , James R. Webb , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Yan Dai

The history of astronomy in Odessa is briefly discussed with a special emphasis on the scientific school of variable star researches founded by Prof. V.P.Tsesevich.

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Ivan L. Andronov

Approximately four thousand light curves of red variable stars in the LMC were selected from the 2.3-years duration MOA database by a period analysis using the Phase Dispersion Minimization method. Their optical features (amplitudes,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Sachiyo Noda , Mine Takeuti

In this paper, we report on observations of the CoRoT LRa1 field with the Berlin Exoplanet Search Telescope (BEST). The current paper is part of a series of papers describing the results of our stellar variability survey. The BEST is a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 P. Kabath , P. Eigmueller , A. Erikson , P. Hedelt , P. von Paris , H. Rauer , S. Renner , R. Titz , C. Karoff

Using the archives of the American Association of Variable Stars Observers and our own data, we analyse the long-term variability of several well-studied Luminous Blue Variables (LBVs) aiming on a general picture of stochastic variability…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Pavel Abolmasov

I report the discovery of nine new variable stars in Cygnus: five pulsating (VSX J192319.8+280832, VSX J192405.8+280352, VSX J192220.7+275518, VSX J192304.4+280231, VSX J192255.1+274744) and four eclipsing (VSX J192252.4+280217, VSX…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-10 Riccardo Furgoni

We study the time variations of the cycles of 20 active stars based on decades-long photometric or spectroscopic observations. A method of time-frequency analysis, as discussed in a companion paper, is applied to the data. Fifteen stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Oláh , Z. Kolláth , T. Granzer , K. G. Strassmeier , A. F. Lanza , S. Järvinen , H. Korhonen , S. L. Baliunas , W. Soon , S. Messina , G. Cutispoto

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

Using CCD photometry obtained by the EROS collaboration in 1991-1993, we have discovered an LMC variable star with a light curve that is oscillating with a mean period of $\sim 14$ days and an amplitude of $\sim$ 0.3 mag. The oscillations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. Beaulieu , R. Buchler , M. J. Goupil , Z. Kollath

We extend the work developed in previous papers on microlensing with a selection of variable stars. We use the Pixel Method to select variable stars on a set of 2.5 x 10**6 pixel light curves in the LMC Bar presented elsewhere. The previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. -L. Melchior , S. M. G. Hughes , J. Guibert

By combining ground-based spectrographic observations of variability in the chromospheric emission from Sun-like stars with the variability seen in their eigenmode frequencies, it is possible to relate the changes observed at the surfaces…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 C. Karoff , T. S. Metcalfe , B. T. Montet , N. E. Jannsen , A. R. G. Santos , M. B. Nielsen , W. J. Chaplin

First results of near-IR adaptive optics (AO)-assisted imaging, interferometry, and spectroscopy of this Luminous Blue Variable (LBV) are presented. They suggest that the Pistol Star is at least double. If the association is physical, it…

The Taiwanese-American Occultation Survey (TAOS) project has collected more than a billion photometric measurements since 2005 January. These sky survey data-covering timescales from a fraction of a second to a few hundred days-are a useful…