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Time-domain studies of pre-main sequence stars have long been used to investigate star properties during their early evolutionary phases and to trace the evolution of circumstellar environments. Historically these studies have been confined…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-25 E. Sabbi , M. Gennaro , J. Anderson , V. Bajaj , N. Bastian , J. S. Gallagher , III , M. Gieles , D. J. Lennon , A. Nota , K. C. Sahu , P. Zeidler

We present the project we are carrying out at present, the search for and characterisation of pre-main sequence (PMS) stars among the members of Galactic young clusters. The observations of 10 southern clusters, nine of them located in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. J. Delgado , E. J. Alfaro , J. L. Yun

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

Results from UBVRI photometric observations of the pre-main sequence star GM Cep obtained in the period April 2011 - August 2014 are reported in the paper. Presented data are a continuation of our photometric monitoring of the star started…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 E. Semkov , S. Ibryamov , S. Peneva , T. Milanov , K. Stoyanov , I. Stateva , D. Kjurkchieva , D. Dimitrov , V. Radeva

Variability is a defining characteristic of young low-mass stars that are still accreting material from their primordial protoplanetary disk. Here we present the largest \textit{HST} variability study of Classical T Tauri stars (CTTS) to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Connor Robinson , Catherine Espaillat

In their HST/NICMOS observations, Terebey et al. 1998 detected a candidate protoplanet, TMR-1C, that lies at a separation of about 10" (~1000 AU) from the Class I protobinary TMR-1 (IRAS 04361+2547). A narrow filament-like structure was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 B. Riaz , E. L. Martin

In this work, we examine the list of 63 candidates to T Tauri star (TTS) in the TAMC identified by their ultraviolet (UV) and infrared colours (IR) measured from data obtained by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer all sky survey (GALEX-AIS) and…

We report the results of a time-series CCD photometric survey of variable stars in the field of the open cluster NGC 2126. In about one square degree field covering the cluster, a total number of 21 variable candidates are detected during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Shun-Fang Liu , Zhen-Yu Wu , Xiao-Bin Zhang , Jiang-Hua Wu , Jun Ma , Zhao-Ji Jiang , Jian-Sheng Chen , Xu Zhou

We present simultaneous photometric and spectroscopic observations of seven young and highly variable M dwarfs in star forming regions in Orion, conducted in 4 observing nights with FORS2 at ESO/VLT. All seven targets show significant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-26 I. Bozhinova , A. Scholz , J. Eislöffel

We present the results of an extensive search for periodic and irregular variable pre-main sequence (PMS) stars in the young (2-4 Myr) open cluster NGC 2664, based on photometric monitoring using the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the 2.2m…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. H. Lamm , C. A. L. Bailer-Jones , R. Mundt , W. Herbst , A. Scholz

This paper presents optical ($ugri$H$\alpha$)-infrared ($JHK$s,3.6--8.0$\mu$m) photometry, and $Gaia$ astrometry of 55 Classical T-Tauri stars (CTTS) in the star-forming region Sh 2-012, and it's central cluster NGC 6383. The sample was…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 V. M. Kalari

We present photometry in the J and K near-infrared bands for two regions centered on the young open clusters NGC 1893 and Berkeley 86. We study 700 stars down to K = 17 in the field of NGC 1893, and about 2000 stars in the field of Berkeley…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonella Vallenari , Andrea Richichi , Giovanni Carraro , Leo Girardi

We aim at characterizing the accretion properties of several hundred members of the star-forming cluster NGC 2264 (3 Myr). We performed a deep u,g,r,i mapping and a simultaneous u+r monitoring of the region with CFHT/MegaCam in order to…

We present multi-wavelength linear polarimetric observations for 44 stars of the NGC 1893 young open cluster region along with V-band polarimetric observations of stars of other four open clusters located between l ~160 to ~175 degree. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 C. Eswaraiah , A. K. Pandey , G. Maheswar , Biman J. Medhi , J. C. Pandey , D. K. Ojha , W. P. Chen

We present optical $I$-band light curves of the stars towards a star-forming region Cygnus OB7 from 17 nights photometric observations. The light curves are generated from a total of 381 image frames with very good photometric precision.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-29 Somnath Dutta , Soumen Mondal , Santosh Joshi , Ramkrishna Das

We present the results from a three night, time-series study of the open cluster NGC 6791 using the Megacam wide-field mosaic CCD camera on the 6.5m MMT telescope. The aim of this study was to demonstrate the ability to obtain very high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 J. D. Hartman , K. Z. Stanek , B. S. Gaudi , M. J. Holman , B. A. McLeod

As extensive ground-based observations and characterisation of different variable stars are of the utmost importance in preparing optimal input catalogues for space missions, our aim was to search for new variable stars in selected fields…

We present the results of our search for variable stars in the intermediate-age open cluster NGC 7789. We have found 45 variable stars: 35 eclipsing binaries, five pulsating variables and five miscellaneous variables. Most of the eclipsing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. J. Mochejska , J. Kaluzny

The field of the metal-rich open cluster NGC 6253 has been surveyed in a search for variable stars. A total of 25 new variables were detected, 14 of which are bright stars with 13<V<15 mag. This domain was not covered in an earlier work by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-30 J. Kaluzny , M. Rozyczka , W. Pych , I. B. Thompson

Intermediate-age star clusters in the LMC present extended main sequence turnoffs (MSTO) that have been attributed to either multiple stellar populations or an effect of stellar rotation. Recently it has been proposed that these extended…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 R. Salinas , M. A. Pajkos , A. K. Vivas , J. Strader , R. Contreras Ramos