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We present a ground-based time-series photometric study of stellar variability in four intermediate- to old-age open clusters NGC 2192, NGC 2266, NGC 2509, and IC 1369 based on high-cadence Cousins R-band observations obtained with the 0.6…

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[ABRIDGED] $\omega$ Centauri (NGC 5139) contains large numbers of variable stars of different types and, in particular, more than a hundred RR Lyrae stars. We have conducted a variability survey of $\omega$ Cen in the NIR, using ESO's 4.1m…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Navarrete , R. Contreras Ramos , M. Catelan , C. M. Clement , F. Gran , J. Alonso-García , R. Angeloni , M. Hempel , I. Dékány , D. Minniti

We present a study of variable stars in globular cluster NGC 6401. The cluster is only $5.3\degr$ away from the Galactic centre and suffers from strong differential reddening. The photometric precision afforded us by difference image…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-01 Y. Tsapras , A. Arellano Ferro , D. M. Bramich , R. Figuera Jaimes , N. Kains , R. Street , M. Hundertmark , K. Horne , M. Dominik , C. Snodgrass

We present results of a search for variable stars in a region of the globular cluster NGC 4147 based on photometric observations with 4k x 4k CCD imager mounted at the axial port of the recently installed 3.6 m Devasthal optical telescope…

We present the commissioning results and first scientific observations from the newly installed TWIST observatory - a 50 cm telescope equipped with an sCMOS camera providing a $36.1\times24.1$ arcmin$^2$ field of view - housed in the former…

We present results of a search for variable stars in the intermediate-age open cluster NGC 7044. We found 23 variable stars in the observed field. One star turned out to be of the delta Sct type with two pulsational modes excited. From the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-20 G. Kopacki , D. Drobek , Z. Kolaczkowski , G. Polubek

We have undertaken a search for variable stars in the metal-rich globular cluster NGC 6441 using time-series BV photometry. The total number of variables found near NGC 6441 has been increased to ~104, with 48 new variables being found in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Barton J. Pritzl , Horace A. Smith , Marcio Catelan , Allen V. Sweigart

This work presents the first high-precision variability survey in the field of the intermediate-age, metal--rich open cluster NGC 6253. Clusters of this type are benchmarks for stellar evolution models. Continuous photometric monitoring of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Fabrizio De Marchi , Ennio Poretti , Marco Montalto , Silvano Desidera , Giampaolo Piotto

We present a new study of the variable star population in globular cluster 5 of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy, based on B and V time series photometry obtained with the MagIC camera of the 6.5 m Magellan Clay telescope and…

We present the catalog of RR Lyrae stars discovered in a 4.5 square degrees area in the central parts of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Presented sample contains 7612 objects, including 5455 fundamental mode pulsators (RRab), 1655…

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

We have surveyed a 6.5' x 6.5' field centered on the globular cluster M56 (NGC 6779) in search for variable stars. We have detected seven variables, among which two objects are new identifications. One of the new variables is an RR Lyrae…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-10 P. Pietrukowicz , A. Olech , P. Kedzierski , K. Zloczewski , M. Wisniewski , K. Mularczyk

We present the first CCD photometric observations of the northern open cluster NGC 2126. Data were taken on eight nights in February and December 2002 with a total time span of ~57 hours. Almost 1000 individual V-band frames were examined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-09 A. Gaspar , L. L. Kiss , T. R. Bedding , A. Derekas , S. Kaspi , Cs. Kiss , K. Sarneczky , Gy. M. Szabo , M. Varadi

We have calculated the physical parameters of the RR Lyrae stars in the globular cluster NGC~4147 via the Fourier decomposition of their light curves, using new data and well-established semi-empirical calibrations and zero points. The mean…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-15 A. Arellano Ferro , F. C. Rojas Galindo , S. Muneer , Sunetra Giridhar

The field of the globular cluster NGC 6362 was monitored between 1995 and 2009 in a search for variable stars. BV light curves were obtained for 69 periodic variables including 34 known RR Lyr stars, 10 known objects of other types and 25…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-22 J. Kaluzny , I. B. Thompson , M. Rozyczka , W. Pych , W. Narloch

We present the analysis of 11 nights of V and I time-series observations of the globular cluster NGC 1904 (M 79). Using this we searched for variable stars in this cluster and attempted to refine the periods of known variables, making use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Kains , D. M. Bramich , R. Figuera Jaimes , A. Arellano Ferro , S. Giridhar , K. Kuppuswamy

We present time-series VI photometry of the metal-rich ([Fe/H] = -0.53) globular cluster NGC 6441. Our color-magnitude diagram shows that the extended blue horizontal branch seen in Hubble Space Telescope data exists in the outermost…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. C. Layden , L. A. Ritter , D. L. Welch , T. M. A. Webb

We present VI-band photometry for stars in the metal-rich globular cluster NGC 6496. Our time-series data were cadenced to search for long period variables (LPVs) over a span of nearly two years, and our variability search yielded the…

We present time-series B, V photometry of NGC 6229, obtained with the purpose of providing the first extensive CCD variability study of this cluster. As a result, we were able to obtain periods for all NGC 6229 variables, with the exception…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. Borissova , M. Catelan , T. Valchev

We present the results of a photometric study of RR Lyrae variables in the field of the globular cluster M55. We have discovered nine new RR Lyrae stars, increasing the number of known variables in this cluster to 15 objects. Five of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Olech , J. Kaluzny , I. B. Thompson , W. Pych , W. Krzeminski , A. Schwarzenberg-Czerny