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Blazars, the peculiar class of active galactic nuclei (AGN), are known to show flux variations across the accessible electromagnetic spectrum. Though they have been studied extensively for their flux variability characteristics across…

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CONTEXT: The unparalleled characteristics of Gaia photometry make it an excellent choice to study stellar variability. AIMS: To measure the phot. dispersion in G+G_BP+G_RP of the 145 677 450 Gaia DR3 5-parameter sources with G <= 17 mag and…

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We present new CCD $VI$ photometry of the distant globular cluster Pal 13. Fourier decomposition of the light curves of the three cluster member RRab stars lead to estimations of [Fe/H]=-1.65, and a distance of 23.67$\pm$0.57 kpc. Light and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-22 M. A. Yepeza , A. Arellano Ferro , K. P. Schroeder , S. Muneer , Sunetra Giridhar , Christine Allen

We report the first X-ray detection of 113 Lyman-alpha emitters at redshift z ~ 4.5. Only one source (J033127.2-274247) is detected in the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDF-S) X-ray data, and has been spectroscopically confirmed as a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Z. Y. Zheng , J. X. Wang , S. L. Finkelstein , S. Malhotra , J. E. Rhoads , K. D. Finkelstein

Using three epochs of VLA observations of the Galactic Plane in the first quadrant taken ~15 years apart, we have conducted a search for a population of variable Galactic radio emitters in the flux density range 1-100 mJy at 6 cm. We find…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Robert H. Becker , David J. Helfand , Richard L. White , Deanne D. Proctor

Recent observations and a photometric search for variable stars in the Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal galaxy (UMi dSph) are presented. Our observations were taken at Apache Point Observatory in 2014 and 2016 using the 0.5m ARCSAT telescope and…

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We present a sample of 386 BL Lacertae (BL Lac) candidates identified from 2860 deg^2 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic database. The candidates are primarily selected to have quasi-featureless optical spectra and low…

We present new Spitzer/IRAC observations of 55 dusty Long Period Variables (LPVs, 48 AGB and 6 RSG stars) in the Galaxy that have different chemistry, variability type, and mass-loss rate. O-rich AGB stars (including intrinsic S-type) tend…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Megan Reiter , Massimo Marengo , Joseph L. Hora , Giovanni G. Fazio

We present candidate quasars from a multi-color (uBVRI + narrow-band) imaging survey of 1/2 square degree around the Hubble Deep Field - South. We identify 154 candidate quasars with B < 23 using color selection, consistent with previously…

We analyse a unique sample of 517 bright ($L>L^{*}$) LBGs at redshift z$\sim$3 in order to characterise the distribution of their UV slopes $\beta$ and infer their dust extinction under standard assumptions. We exploited multi-band…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-19 S. Pilo , M. Castellano , A. Fontana , A. Grazian , K. Boutsia , L. Pentericci , E. Giallongo , E. Merlin , D. Paris , P. Santini

Gaia is regularly producing Alerts on objects where photometric variability has been detected. The physical nature of these objects has often to be determined with the complementary observations from ground-based facilities. We have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-03 Z. Huo , M. Dennefeld , X. Liu , T. Pursimo , T. Zhang

Continuing our program of spectroscopic observations of ICRF sources, we present redshifts for 120 quasars and radio galaxies. Data were obtained with five telescopes: the 3.58m ESO New Technology Telescope (NTT), the two 8.2m Gemini…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-15 Oleg Titov , Laura M. Stanford , Helen M. Johnston , Tapio Pursimo , Richard W. Hunstead , David L. Jauncey , K. Maslennikov , A. Boldycheva

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are well-known to exhibit flux variability across a wide range of wavelength regimes, but the precise origin of the variability at different wavelengths remains unclear. To investigate the relatively unexplored…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 James R. A. Davenport , John J. Ruan , Andrew C. Becker , Chelsea L. Macleod , Roc M. Cutri

We present a variable star catalog of an extensive ground-based wide-field variability survey in the globular cluster omega Centauri. Using the ANU 40-inch (1m) telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, the cluster was observed with a 52'x52'…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 David T. F Weldrake , Penny D Sackett , Terry J Bridges

Spatially extended Ly-alpha sources that are faint and/or compact in coninuum are candidates for extremely young (~< 10^7 yrs) galaxies at high redshifts. We present medium-resolution (R~2000) spectroscopy of such extended Ly-alpha sources…

Blazars are a highly-variable, radio-loud subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGN). In order to better understand such objects we must be able to easily identify candidate blazars from the growing population of unidentified sources. Working…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Philip S. Cowperthwaite , F. Massaro , R. D'Abrusco , A. Paggi , G. Tosti , Howard A. Smith

The LAMOST-\textit{K}2 (L\textit{K}2) project, initiated in 2015, aims to collect low-resolution spectra of targets in the \textit{K}2 campaigns, similar to LAMOST-\textit{Kepler} project. By the end of 2018, a total of 126 L\textit{K}2…

Stellar variability in the near-infrared (NIR) remains largely unexplored. The exploitation of public science archives with data-mining methods offers a perspective for the time-domain exploration of the NIR sky. We perform a comprehensive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 C. E. Ferreira Lopes , I. Dékány , M. Catelan , N. J. G. Cross , R. Angeloni , I. C. Leão , J. R. De Medeiros

This paper contains the fifth part of the Catalog of Variable Stars created from the V-band photometric data collected by 9x9 deg camera of the All Sky Automated Survey. Preliminary list of variable stars found in the fields located between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pojmanski , B. Pilecki , D. Szczygiel

High-redshift radio sources provide plentiful opportunities for studying the formation and evolution of early galaxies and supermassive black holes. However, the number of known radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) above redshift 4 is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-29 M. Krezinger , K. Perger , K. É. Gabányi , S. Frey , L. I Gurvits , Zs. Paragi , T. An , Y. Zhang , H. Cao , T. Sbarrato