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(Abridged) We present results from 13776 radial-velocity (RV) measurements of 1278 candidate members of the old (4 Gyr) open cluster M67 (NGC 2682). The measurements are the results of a long-term survey that includes data from seven…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Aaron M. Geller , David W. Latham , Robert D. Mathieu

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 present mean horizontal branch absolute magnitudes and iron abundances for a sample of 39 globular clusters. These quantities were calculated in an unprecedented homogeneous fashion based on Fourier decomposition of ligt curves of RR…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-05 Armando Arellano Ferro

We have used DOLORES at the TNG to obtain B,V time series photometry of NGC 2419, one of the most distant and bright clusters in the Galactic halo. These data will be used to study its variable star population in order to check whether the…

We present the results of a photometric study of RR Lyrae variables in the field of the globular cluster M55. We have discovered nine new RR Lyrae stars, increasing the number of known variables in this cluster to 15 objects. Five of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Olech , J. Kaluzny , I. B. Thompson , W. Pych , W. Krzeminski , A. Schwarzenberg-Czerny

A five year CCD photometric \emph{VI} time-series of NGC 7006 is employed to perform a detailed analysis of the known population of variable stars. In the process we have corrected inconsistent classifications, sky coordinates and found ten…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 A. Arellano Ferro , F. C. Rojas Galindo , I. H. Bustos Fierro , S. Muneer , M. A. Yepez , Sunetra Giridhar

We present a ground-based time-series photometric study of stellar variability in four intermediate- to old-age open clusters NGC 2192, NGC 2266, NGC 2509, and IC 1369 based on high-cadence Cousins R-band observations obtained with the 0.6…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 K. Belwal , D. Bisht , Ing-Guey Jiang , Mohit Singh Bisht , A. Raj , S. K. Chakrabarti , D. Bhowmick

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

We present new time-series CCD \emph{VR} photometry of the globular cluster NGC 5634. We aim to use the known RR Lyrae stars, members of the cluster, as indicators of mean metallicity and distance. Accurate coordinates, periods and an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-21 A. Arellano Ferro , R. Michel , M. A. Yepez , S. Muneer , I. Bustos Fierro , Z. Prudil

Time-series VI CCD photometry of the globular cluster M10 (NGC 6254) is employed to perform a detailed identification, inspection of their light curves, their classification and their cluster membership, of all the known variables reported…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 A. Arellano Ferro , M. A. Yepez , S. Muneer , I. H. Bustos Fierro , K. P. Schröder , Sunetra Giridhar , J. H. Calderón

We use differential CCD photometry to search for variability in BVI among 990 stars projected in and around the old open cluster M 67. In a previous paper we reported results for 22 cluster members that are optical counterparts to X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. G. Stassun , M. van den Berg , R. D. Mathieu , F. Verbunt

We present a study of variable stars in globular cluster NGC 6401. The cluster is only $5.3\degr$ away from the Galactic centre and suffers from strong differential reddening. The photometric precision afforded us by difference image…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-01 Y. Tsapras , A. Arellano Ferro , D. M. Bramich , R. Figuera Jaimes , N. Kains , R. Street , M. Hundertmark , K. Horne , M. Dominik , C. Snodgrass

We report the discovery of two new variable stars in the metal-poor globular cluster NGC 288, found by means of time-series CCD photometry. We classified the new variables as SX Phoenicis due to their characteristic fundamental mode periods…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 E. Martinazzi , S. O. Kepler , J. E. S. Costa , A. Pieres , C. Bonatto , E. Bica , L. Fraga

We report an analysis of new $V$ and $I$ CCD time-series photometry of the globular cluster NGC 6934. Through the Fourier decomposition of the RR Lyrae light curves, the mean values of [Fe/H] and the distance of the cluster were estimated,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-04 M. A. Yepez , A. Arellano Ferro , S. Muneer , Sunetra Giridhar

We present time-series VI photometry of the metal-rich globular cluster NGC 6316. Our color-magnitude diagrams show a predominantly red-clump horizontal branch morphology with no evidence of the blue extensions seen in NGC 6388 and NGC…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. C. Layden , B. T. Bowes , D. L. Welch , T. M. A. Webb

High reddening near the Galactic plane hampers observations and proper characterization of the globular clusters (GCs) located toward the inner regions of the Milky Way. The VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey observed the…

We have conducted a three band (BVI) variability survey of the globular cluster M3. This is the first three band survey of the cluster using modern image subtraction techniques. Observations were made over 9 nights in 1998 on the 1.2m…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. D. Hartman , J. Kaluzny , A. Szentgyorgyi , K. Z. Stanek

We report VI CCD photometry of the globular cluster cluster NGC 1851. We aim to study the membership of the variable stars detected in the field of the cluster as listed in the Catalogue of Variable stars in Globular Clusters (CVSGC;…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-22 A. Arellano Ferro , C. E. Pérez Parra , M. A. Yepez , I. H. Bustos Fierro , Z. Prudil , L. J. Zerpa Guillen

The field of the globular cluster M22 (NGC 6656) was monitored between 2000 and 2008 in a search for variable stars. $BV$ light curves were obtained for 359 periodic, likely periodic, and long-term variables, 238 of which are new…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 M. Rozyczka , I. B. Thompson , W. Pych , W. Narloch , R. Poleski , A. Schwarzenberg-Czerny

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