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We present high precision CCD photometry of 1791 objects in 20 open clusters with an age from 10 Myr to 1 Gyr. These observations were performed within the Delta a photometric system which is primarily used to detect chemically peculiar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Paunzen , K. Zwintz , H. M. Maitzen , O. I. Pintado , M. Rode-Paunzen

This paper describes the second part of the photometric data from the 9x9 deg ASAS camera monitoring the whole southern hemisphere in the V-band. Preliminary list of variable stars based on observations obtained since January 2001 is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pojmanski

We have conducted a deep photometric survey of a 0.5 deg x 0.5 deg area of the Galactic Plane using the WFI instrument on the 2.2-m ESO telescope on La Silla, Chile. The dataset comprises a total of 267 R-band images, 204 from a 16 day…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 V. R. Miller , M. D. Albrow , C. Afonso , Th. Henning

The image subtraction technique applied to study variable stars in globular clusters represented a leap in the number of new detections, with the drawback that many of these new light curves could not be transformed to magnitudes due to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 R. Salinas , R. Contreras Ramos , J. Strader , P. Hakala , M. Catelan , M. Peacock , M. Simunovic

We describe a high speed time-series CCD photometer for the prime focus of the 82-in (2.1 m) telescope at McDonald Observatory, and summarize the observational results we have obtained since it was placed into regular use in February, 2002.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. E. Nather , Anjum. S. Mukadam

We present a catalog of 110 variable stars within ~1' of Sgr A* based on image subtraction of near-infrared (H and K) photometry. Our images were obtained over 133 nights from 2000--2002 in H-band and over 134 nights from 2001--2002 in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-06 Molly S. Peeples , K. Z. Stanek , D. L. DePoy

The ROTSE-I experiment has generated CCD photometry for the entire Northern sky in two epochs nightly since March 1998. These sky patrol data are a powerful resource for studies of astrophysical transients. As a demonstration project, we…

Context: Difference imaging has proven to be a powerful technique for detecting and monitoring the variability of unresolved stellar sources in M 31. Using this technique in surveys of galaxies outside the Local Group could have many…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-11 Jelte T. A. de Jong , Konrad H. Kuijken , Philippe Heraudeau

We report on speckle observations of binary stars carried out at the WIYN Telescope over the period from September 2010 through February 2012, providing relative astrometry for 2521 observations of 883 objects, 856 of which are double stars…

We present the results of a high-cadence photometric survey of an $11'\times11'$ field centred on the globular cluster M71, with the Near-Infrared Transiting ExoplanetS Telescope. The aim of our survey is to search for stellar variability…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. McCormac , I. Skillen , D. Pollacco , F. Faedi , G. Ramsay , V. S. Dhillon , I. Todd , A. Gonzalez

The Rapid Temporal Survey (RATS) explores the faint, variable sky. Our observations search a parameter space which, until now, has never been exploited from the ground. Our strategy involves observing the sky close to the Galactic plane…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Thomas Barclay , Gavin Ramsay , Pasi Hakala , Ralf Napiwotzki , Gijs Nelemans , Stephen Potter , Ian Todd

We present more than 80 new variable stars discovered during the first observing season of the APACHE survey. APACHE is a project aimed at detecting extrasolar planets transiting nearby, bright M dwarfs by using an array of small-aperture…

Since 2007, close binary and multiple stars are observed by speckle interferometry at the 4.1 m Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope. The HRCam instrument, observing strategy and planning, data processing and calibration…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Andrei Tokovinin

This paper presents the Charge-Coupled Device time-series photometric observations of the open cluster NGC 1582 and its surrounding field with Johnson B, V and R filters by using Nanshan 1m telescope of Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory. 19…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-27 Fang-Fang Song , Ali Esamdin , Lu Ma , Jin-Zhong Liu , Yu Zhang , Hu-Biao Niu , Tao-Zhi Yang

This paper describes the third part of the photometric data from the 9 x 9 deg ASAS camera monitoring the whole southern hemisphere in V-band. Preliminary list of variable stars based on observations obtained since January 2001 is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pojmanski , Gracjan Maciejewski

The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) is a sensitive, wide field instrument mounted at the prime focus of the 4 m V. Blanco Telescope in Chile. Beside its main objectives, i.e. understanding the growth and evolution of structures in the Universe,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-18 A. Franco , A. A. Nucita , F. De Paolis , F. Strafella , S. Sacquegna

Recent CCD observations were performed in the period 1998-2004 for a large sample of visual double and multiple stars selected from the Hipparcos Catalogue and/or from the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars. Accurate astrometric and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Lampens , A. Strigachev , D. Duval

We describe an ongoing variable star search program and present the first reduced results of a search in a 19 square degree (4.4\circle x 4.4\circle) field centered on J2000 {\alpha} = 22:03:24, {\delta} = +18:54:32. The search was carried…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-01 Michael D. Williams , E. F. Milone

With a combination of adaptive optics imaging and a multi-epoch common proper motion search, we have conducted a large volume-limited (D $\le$ 75 pc) multiplicity survey of A-type stars, sensitive to companions beyond 30 au. The sample for…

Having a need to perform differential photometry for tens of thousands stars in a several square degrees field, we developed Astrokit program. The software corrects the star brightness variations caused by variations of atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Artem Y. Burdanov , Vadim V. Krushinsky , Alexander A. Popov