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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

New results on the behavior of the double-mode RR Lyrae V338 Boo are presented. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) observed this star again in 2022, and an observing campaign of the American Association of Variable Star…

We have frequency analyzed 6391 variables classified earlier as fundamental mode RR Lyrae (RR0) stars in the MACHO database on the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The overwhelming majority of these variables have been proved to be indeed RR0…

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 polarized and total flux of the BL Lac object PKS 2155-304 were monitored intensively and simultaneously in the optical UBVRI bands with the Turin photopolarimeter at the CASLEO 2.15 m telescope during 4 campaigns in June, August,…

We monitored BL Lacertae in the B, V, R and I bands for 14 nights during the period of 2016-2018. The source showed significant intraday variability on 12 nights. We performed colour-magnitude analysis and found that the source exhibited…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Tian Li , Jianghua Wu , Nankun Meng , Yan Dai , Xiaoyuan Zhang

Rapid, multi-color optical monitoring carried out for a multiwavelength campaign during 22-27 August 2000 is presented for the bright and variable BL Lac object PKS 2005-489. Previous multiwavelength monitoring campaigns of PKS 2005-489…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. A. Rector , E. S. Perlman

This report analyzes the I-band CCD photometry of Nova V1974 Cygni from the 1997 observational season. The analysis shows that both short-term modulations with periods 0.0813 and 0.085 days are still present in the light curve of the star.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Arkadiusz Olech

We present an analysis of multifrequency light curves of the sources 2223-052 (3C 446), 2230+114 (CTA 102), and 2251+158 (3C 454.3), which had shown evidence of quasi-periodic activity. The analysis made use of data from the University of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. A. Kudryavtseva , T. B. Pyatunina

New CCD photometric observations of BX Dra were obtained for 26 nights from 2009 April to 2010 June. The long-term photometric behaviors of the system are presented from detailed studies of the period and light variations, based on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jang-Ho Park , Jae Woo Lee , Seung-Lee Kim , Chung-Uk Lee , Young-Beom Jeon

We present an overview and current status of research on RR Lyrae stars in binary systems. In present days the number of binary candidates has steeply increased and suggested that multiple stellar systems with an RR Lyrae component is much…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Marek Skarka , Jiří Liška , Miloslav Zejda , Zdeněk Mikulášek

We present time series data on the variable stars of the galactic globular cluster Messier 3 (M3). We give BVI light curves for 226 RR Lyrae, 2 SX Phe and 1 W Vir type variables, along with estimated fundamental photometric parameters such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. M. Benko , G. A. Bakos , J. Nuspl

In this paper we present results of a short-term optical monitoring of 13 blazars. The objects were monitored mostly in the R-band for a total of ~ 160 hours between 2006 and 2011. We study the nature of the short-term variations and show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-21 R. Bachev , E. Semkov , A. Strigachev , Alok C. Gupta , Haritma Gaur , B. Mihov , S. Boeva , L. Slavcheva-Mihova

We present time series analyses of three-decade long radio observations of the BL Lacertae object AO 0235+164 made at the University of Michigan Radio Astronomical Observatory operating at three central frequencies of 4.8 GHz, 8.0 GHz and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-26 Ashutosh Tripathi , Alok C. Gupta , Margo F. Aller , Paul J. Wiita , Cosimo Bambi , Hugh Aller , Minfeng Gu

The latest observations of BL Lacertae with the EGRET instrument on CGRO show that the gamma-ray flux was four times higher than the previous detection. Within the 1997 July 15-22 observation there was a dramatic factor of 2.5 increase in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. D. Bloom

We have studied short-term variations of the blazar OJ 287, suspected to host a supermassive black hole binary. In this study, we use a two-season optical R-band dataset from 2004--2006 which consists of 3991 data points from the OJ 287…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Pauli Pihajoki , Mauri Valtonen , Stefano Ciprini

We present in this paper the new study of variable star AM Cnc, a short period RRab star, in orther to determine, through the light curve and the physical parameters. The Star were observed for a total of 293 sessions shooting, and exhibits…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-13 D. Tasselli

The observations of the photometric space telescopes CoRoT and Kepler show numerous Blazhko RR Lyrae stars which have non-repetitive modulation cycles. The phenomenon can be explained by multi-periodic, stochastic or chaotic processes. From…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-15 J. M. Benkő , M. Paparó

To search for optical variability on a wide range of timescales, we have carried out photometric monitoring of 3C 454.3, 3C 279 and S5 0716+714. CCD magnitudes in B, V, R and I pass-bands were determined for $\sim$ 7000 new optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 A. Agarwal , A. C. Gupta

A systematic study of RR Lyrae stars is performed based on a selected sample of 655 objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud with observation of long span and numerous measurements by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment III project.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 B. -Q. Chen , B. -W. Jiang , M. Yang