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Based on data from the ongoing OGLE Galaxy Variability Survey (OGLE GVS) we have verified observed properties of stars detected by the near-infrared VVV survey in a direction near the Galactic plane at longitude l~-27 deg and recently…

The number of known periodic variable stars has increased rapidly in recent years. As an all-sky transit survey, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) plays an important role in detecting low-amplitude variable stars. Using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-10 Xinyi Gao , Xiaodian Chen , Shu Wang , Jifeng Liu

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

We obtained a series of more than two hundred R-band CCD images for the crowded central (115"x77") region of the metal-poor globular cluster M15 with an angular resolution of 0.5"-0.9" in most images. Optimal image subtraction was used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander P. Zheleznyak , Valery V. Kravtsov

We report on the results of a comprehensive search for Cepheid variable stars in the fields photometricallymonitored by the OGLE Galaxy Variability Survey. We identify 742 Cepheids not included in the first release of the OGLE Collection of…

We have conducted a 1.5 year-long variability study of the stars in the Cygnus OB2 association, the region in the northern hemisphere with the highest density of optically visible massive stars. The survey was conducted using four pointings…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-27 J. Salas , J. Maíz Apellániz , R. H. Barbá

In this work, we studied the variable stars in the open cluster NGC 1912 based on the photometric observations and $Gaia$ DR2 data. More than 3600 CCD frames in B, V, R filters were reduced, and we obtained the light curves that span about…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-11 Chunyan Li , Ali Esamdin , Yu Zhang , Fangfang Song , Xiangyun Zeng , Li Chen , Hubiao Niu , Jianying Bai , Junhui Liu

We analyse all potential combinations of Galactic Cepheids and open clusters (OCs) in the most up-to-date catalogues available. Isochrone fitting and proper-motion calcula- tion are applied to all potential OC{Cepheid combinations. Five…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Xiaodian Chen , Richard de Grijs , Licai Deng

We present a comprehensive analysis of the variable stars projected on the field of the Galactic bulge globular cluster NGC 6522, offering valuable insights into their characteristics. Using proper motions from Gaia DR3, we aim to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-26 A. Arellano Ferro , Z. Prudil , M. A. Yepez , I. Bustos Fierro , A. Luna

The number of known periodic variables has grown rapidly in recent years. Thanks to its large field of view and faint limiting magnitude, the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) offers a unique opportunity to detect variable stars in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Xiaodian Chen , Shu Wang , Licai Deng , Richard de Grijs , Ming Yang , Hao Tian

We present a collection of 10 111 genuine delta Sct-type pulsating variable stars detected in the OGLE-IV Galactic bulge fields. In this sample, 9835 variables are new discoveries. For most of the stars photometric data cover the whole…

DIRECT is a project to obtain directly the distances to two Local Group galaxies, M31 and M33, which occupy a crucial position near the bottom of the cosmological distance ladder. As the first step of the DIRECT project we have searched for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 B. J. Mochejska , J. Kaluzny , K. Z. Stanek , D. D. Sasselov , A. H. Szentgyorgyi

This paper presents the first optical variability study of the Westerlund 1 super star cluster in search of massive eclipsing binary systems. A total of 129 new variable stars have been identified, including the discovery of 4 eclipsing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alceste Z. Bonanos

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

Thanks to the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) ESO Public Survey it is now possible to explore a large number of objects in those regions. This paper addresses the variability analysis of all VVV point sources having more than 10…

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 of an automated variability analysis of the Kepler public data measured in the first quarter (Q1) of the mission. In total, about 150 000 light curves have been analysed to detect stellar variability, and to identify…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. Debosscher , J. Blomme , C. Aerts , J. De Ridder

We present the list of variable stars we found in the Kepler superstamp data covering approximately 9 arcminutes from the central region of NGC 6791. We classified the variable stars based on the variability type and we established their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Sachu Sanjayan , Andrzej S Baran , Peter Nemeth , Karen Kinemuchi , Jakub Ostrowski , Sumanta Kumar Sahoo

We present the results of a spectroscopic follow-up of various puzzling variable objects detected in the OGLE-III Galactic disk and bulge fields. The sample includes mainly short-period multi-mode pulsating stars that could not have been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-30 P. Pietrukowicz , M. Latour , R. Angeloni , F. di Mille , I. Soszynski , A. Udalski , C. Germana

We report the discovery of additional 22 RV Tau stars located in the OGLE-II and OGLE-III fields toward the Galactic bulge, increasing to 357 objects the OGLE-III catalog of type II Cepheids in the Galactic center. Four of the newly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-11 I. Soszynski , A. Udalski , P. Pietrukowicz , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , L. Wyrzykowski , K. Ulaczyk , R. Poleski , S. Kozlowski