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We utilize a complete sample of RR Lyrae stars discovered by the QUEST survey using light curves to design selection criteria based on SDSS colors. Thanks to the sensitivity of the u-g color to surface gravity and of g-r color to effective…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zeljko Ivezic , A. Katherina Vivas , Robert H. Lupton , Robert Zinn

We present the detection of 6,371 RR Lyrae (RRL) stars distributed across ~14,000 deg^2 of the sky from the combined data of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System 1 (PS1), and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 M. A. Abbas , E. K. Grebel , N. F. Martin , W. S. Burgett , H. Flewelling , R. J. Wainscoat

RR Lyrae stars may be the best practical tracers of Galactic halo (sub-)structure and kinematics. The PanSTARRS1 (PS1) $3\pi$ survey offers multi-band, multi-epoch, precise photometry across much of the sky, but a robust identification of…

We describe a new RR Lyrae identification technique based on out-of-phase single-epoch photometric and spectroscopic observations contained in SDSS Data Release 6 (DR-6). This technique detects variability by exploiting the large disparity…

One of the major science goals of the SkyMapper Survey of the Southern Hemisphere sky is the determination of the shape and extent of the halo of the Galaxy. In this paper we quantify the likely efficiency and completeness of the survey as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Akhter , G. S. Da Costa , S. C. Keller , B. P. Schmidt , M. S. Bessell , P. Tisserand

We apply machine learning and Convex-Hull algorithms to separate RR Lyrae stars from other stars, like main sequence stars, white dwarf stars, carbon stars, CVs and carbon-lines stars, based on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Galaxy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-09 Jingyi Zhang , Yanxia Zhang , Yongheng Zhao

Many studies have shown that RR Lyrae variable stars (RRL) are powerful stellar tracers of Galactic halo structure and satellite galaxies. The Dark Energy Survey (DES), with its deep and wide coverage (g ~ 23.5 mag) in a single exposure;…

RR Lyrae (RRL) variable stars are cornerstone distance indicators. In particular, double-mode RR Lyrae (RRd) stars enable period--luminosity relations (PLRs) that are less sensitive to metallicity, reducing systematic biases in distance…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-10 Jianxing Zhang , Xiaodian Chen , Shu Wang , Jiyu Wang , Licai Deng

We determine the period-magnitude relations of RR Lyrae stars in 13 photometric bandpasses from 0.4 to 12 {\mu}m using timeseries observations of 134 stars. The Bayesian formalism, extended from our previous work to include the effects of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-10 Christopher R. Klein , Joshua S. Bloom

We employ a sample of 135,873 RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) with precise photometric-metallicity and distance estimates from the newly calibrated $P$--$\phi_{31}$--$R_{21}$--[Fe/H] and $Gaia$ $G$-band $P$--$R_{21}$--[Fe/H] absolute…

The Pan-STARRS 3$\pi$ survey has detected hundreds of thousands of variable stars thanks to its coverage and 4-year time span, even though the sampling of the light curves is relatively sparse. These light curves contain only 10-15…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-27 Adrienn Forró , László Molnár , Emese Plachy , Áron Juhász , Róbert Szabó

We present a comprehensive photometric study of RR Lyrae stars in the M3 globular cluster, utilising a vast dataset of 3140 optical ($UBVRI$) CCD images spanning 35 years from astronomical data archives. We have successfully identified…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-28 Nitesh Kumar , Anupam Bhardwaj , Harinder P. Singh , Marina Rejkuba , Marcella Marconi , Philippe Prugniel

In area and depth, the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) 3$\pi$ survey is unique among many-epoch, multi-band surveys and has enormous potential for all-sky identification of variable sources. PS1 has observed the sky typically seven times in each of its…

We present a sample of 148 candidate RR Lyrae stars selected from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) commissioning data for about 100 deg2 of sky surveyed twice with Delta(t) = 1.9946 days. Although the faint magnitude limit of the SDSS allows…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Z. Ivezic , J. Goldston , K. Finlator

Although many globular clusters (GCs) have been identified in the Galaxy, their population is estimated to be incomplete, especially in regions with strong crowding and interstellar extinction such as the Galactic bulge and plane.RR Lyrae…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-01 N. Cristi-Cambiaso , C. Navarrete , M. Catelan , M. Zoccali , C. Quezada

We present a radial velocity analysis of 20 solar neighborhood RR Lyrae and 3 Population II Cepheids variables. We obtained high-resolution, moderate-to-high signal-to-noise ratio spectra for most stars and obtained spectra were covering…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-16 N. E. Britavskiy , E. Pancino , V. Tsymbal , D. Romano , L. Fossati

RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) are old pulsating variables widely used as metallicity tracers due to the correlation between their metal abundances and light curve morphology. With ESA Gaia DR3 providing light curves for about 270,000 RRLs, there is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Lorenzo Monti , Tatiana Muraveva , Alessia Garofalo , Gisella Clementini , Maria Letizia Valentini

As one of the best ground-based photometric dataset, Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) has been widely used as the reference to calibrate other surveys. In this work, we present an independent validation and re-calibration of the PS1 photometry using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Kai Xiao , Haibo Yuan

We present a comprehensive catalog of 2824 RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) residing in 115 Galactic globular clusters (GCs). Our catalog includes 1594 fundamental-mode (RRab), 824 first-overtone (RRc), and 28 double-mode (RRd) RRLs, as well as 378…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-15 Mauricio Cruz Reyes , Richard I. Anderson , Lucas Johansson , Henryka Netzel , Zoé Medaric

We present a multi-wavelength compilation of new and previously-published photometry for 55 Galactic field RR Lyrae variables. Individual studies, spanning a time baseline of up to 30 years, are self-consistently phased to produce light…

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