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(Abridged) We present CCD BVI photometry of 85 variable stars from the field of the globular cluster NGC 6934. The photometry was obtained with the image subtraction package ISIS. 35 variables are new identifications: 24 RRab stars, 5 RRc…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Kaluzny , A. Olech , K. Z. Stanek

We report the discovery of a sizeable, previously unknown variable star population in the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal globular clusters NGC 5634, Arp 2 and Terzan 8. Location, preliminary pulsation periods and B-band light curves in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Salinas , M. Catelan , H. A. Smith , B. J. Pritzl , J. Borissova

Based on a search of the literature up to May 2001, the number of known variable stars in Galactic globular clusters is approximately 3000. Of these, more than 2200 have known periods and the majority (approximately 1800) are of the RR…

Binary stars are believed to be key determinants in understanding globular cluster evolution. In this paper, we present the Multi-band photometric analyses of five variables in the nearest galactic globular cluster M4, from the observations…

In a sample of six young open clusters we investigated 1753 objects using the narrow band, three filter Delta a photometric system resulting in the detection of eleven bona-fide magnetic chemically peculiar (CP) stars and five Be or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Paunzen , M. Netopil , I. Kh. Iliev , H. M. Maitzen , A. Claret , O. I. Pintado

Using V images taken in May and June 2012 with the SARA Consortium's 0.9-meter telescope located at Kitt Peak National Observatory, we searched for variable stars in the globular cluster M107 (NGC 6171). The search was accomplished using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-25 Thayne A. McCombs , Erik D. Reinhart , Andrew N. Darragh , Elliott W. Johnson , Brian W. Murphy

We describe the status of a project whose main goal is to detect variability along the extreme horizontal branch of the globular cluster NGC 6752. Based on Magellan 6.5m data, preliminary light curves are presented for some candidate…

We report the results of a diffraction-limited, photometric variability study of the central 5"x5" of the Galaxy conducted over the past 10 years using speckle imaging techniques on the W. M. Keck I 10 m telescope. Within our limiting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Rafelski , A. M. Ghez , S. D. Hornstein , J. R. Lu , M. Morris

We present the results of a photometric survey for variable stars in the central region of the nearby globular cluster NGC 6397.Time series photometry was obtained for 30 variable objects. The sample includes 12 new objects, of which 6 show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Kaluzny , I. B. Thompson , W. Krzeminski

We report the discovery of amplitude and phase modulations typical of the Blazhko effect in 22 RRc and 9 RRab type RR Lyrae stars in NGC 5024 (M53). This brings the confirmed Blazhko variables in this cluster to 23 RRc and 11 RRab, that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Arellano Ferro , D. M. Bramich , R. Figuera Jaimes , Sunetra Giridhar , K. Kuppuswamy

We present stellar variability towards the young open cluster NGC\,6823. Time series $V$- and $I$-band CCD photometry led to identification and characterization of 88 variable stars, of which only 14 have been previously recognized. We…

We report on the Chandra ACIS-S3 imaging observation of the globular cluster NGC 6752. We detect 6 X-ray sources within the 10.5" core radius and 13 more within the 115" half-mass radius down to a limiting luminosity of Lx approx 10^{30}…

The census of the globular clusters (GCs) in the Milky Way (MW) is still a work in progress. We explore the nature of 19 new GC candidates in the Galactic bulge, based on the analysis of their colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-09 E. R. Garro , D. Minniti , M. Gómez , J. Alonso-García , V. Ripepi , J. G. Fernández-Trincado , F. Vivanco Cádiz

We report results of VI time series photometry for the bright globular cluster M5 taken between 2007-2011 using the 0.5-m telescope at Bowling Green State Univ. and the PROMPT #4 telescope at Cerro Tololo. We used DAOPHOT to obtain…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-03 Michael Wehrung , Andrew Layden

We present a new time-series VI CCD photometry of the globular cluster NGC 6397, from which we obtained and analysed the light curves of 35 variables carefully identified in the cluster field. We assessed the membership of the variables…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 J. A. Ahumada , A. Arellano Ferro , I. Bustos Fierro , C. Lázaro , M. A. Yepez , K. P. Schroeder , J. Calderón

The Survey for Transiting Extrasolar Planets in Stellar Systems (STEPSS) project is a search for planetary transits in open clusters. In this paper, we analyze the STEPSS observations of the open cluster NGC 1245 to determine the variable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-09 Joshua Pepper , Chris Burke

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

We have performed a careful investigation of the 74 candidate variable stars presented by Safanova & Stalin (2011). For this purpose we used our data base of imaging and light curves from Arellano Ferro et al. (2011) and Arellano Ferro et…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 D. M. Bramich , A. Arellano Ferro , R. Figuera Jaimes , Sunetra Giridhar

This is the third in a series of papers studying the variable stars in old globular clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The primary goal of this series is to look at how the characteristics and behavior of RR Lyrae stars in…

We present results of a CCD variability search in the field of the young open cluster NGC 6834. We discover 15 stars to be variable in light. The brightest, a multiperiodic Gamma Doradus-type variable is a foreground star. The eight fainter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-19 M. Jerzykiewicz , G. Kopacki , A. Pigulski , Z. Kołaczkowski , S. -L. Kim