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We present new period-luminosity and period-luminosity-metallicity relations for Galactic RR Lyrae stars based on a sample of 28 pulsators located at distances up to $1.5$ kpc from the Sun. Near-infrared photometry was obtained at the Cerro…

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 use photometry from the recent AllWISE Data Release of the Wide-field In-frared Survey Explorer (WISE) of 129 calibration stars, combined with prior distances obtained from the established $M_V-$[Fe/H] relation and Hubble Space Telescope…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Christopher R. Klein , Joseph W. Richards , Nathaniel R. Butler , Joshua S. Bloom

We present the most comprehensive picture ever obtained of the central parts of the Milky Way probed with RR Lyrae variable stars. This is a collection of 38257 RR Lyr stars detected over 182 square degrees monitored photometrically by the…

We present and discuss an extensive data set for the non-Blazhko ab-type RR Lyrae star SDSSJ015450+001501, including optical SDSS ugriz light curves and spectroscopic data, LINEAR and CSS unfiltered optical light curves, and infrared 2MASS…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 R. Szabó , Z. Ivezić , L. L. Kiss , Z. Kolláth , L. Jones , B. Sesar , A. C. Becker , J. R. A. Davenport , R. M. Cutri

We present $V,I$ light curves for 12 variable stars identified in the newly discovered satellite of the Milky Way in the Bootes constellation (Belokurov et al. 2006).Our sample includes 11 RR Lyrae stars (5 first overtone, 5 fundamental…

Tsinghua University-Ma Huateng Telescopes for Survey (TMTS), located at Xinglong Station of NAOC, has a field of view upto 18 deg^2. The TMTS has started to monitor the LAMOST sky areas since 2020, with the uninterrupted observations…

The luminosities and effective temperatures, as well as the whole bolometric lightcurves of nonlinear convective RR Lyrae models with 0.0001<Z<0.006 are transformed into the SDSS photometric system. The obtained ugriz lightcurves, mean…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Marconi , M. Cignoni , M. Di Criscienzo , V. Ripepi , F. Castelli , I. Musella , A. Ruoppo

We present a method for selecting RR Lyrae (RRL) stars (or other type of variable stars) in the absence of a large number of multi-epoch data and light curve analyses. Our method uses color and variability selection cuts that are defined by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 M. A. Abbas , E. K. Grebel , N. F. Martin , N. Kaiser , W. S. Burgett , M. E. Huber , C. Waters

We present optical and near-infrared UBVRIJHK photometry of stars in the Galactic globular cluster M4 (NGC 6121) based upon a large corpus of observations obtained mainly from public astronomical archives. We concentrate on the RR Lyrae…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 P. B. Stetson , V. F. Braga , M. Dall'Ora , G. Bono , R. Buonanno , I. Ferraro , G. Iannicola , M. Marengo , J. Neeley

We present results from the analysis of 401 RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) belonging to the field of the Milky Way (MW). For a fraction of them multi-band ($V$, $K_{\rm s}$, $W1$) photometry, metal abundances, extinction values and pulsation periods…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-22 Tatiana Muraveva , Hector E. Delgado , Gisella Clementini , Luis M. Sarro , Alessia Garofalo

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) is a 4-meter class survey telescope. It achieved its first light on 29$^{\rm th}$ April 2022 and is now undergoing the commissioning phase. It scans the sky in a fixed \ang{;22;} wide strip…

Hydrogen emissions of RR Lyrae variables are the imprints of shock waves traveling through their atmospheres. We develop a pattern recognition algorithm, which is then applied to single-epoch spectra of SDSS and LAMOST. These two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Xiao-Wei Duan , Xiaodian Chen , Weijia Sun , Licai Deng , Huawei Zhang , Fan Yang , Chao Liu

We present the results of a deep, wide-area variability survey in the Southern hemisphere, the first of its kind. As part of the Catalina Sky Surveys, the Siding Spring Survey (SSS) has covered $14,800$ square degrees in the declination…

We present new near-infrared, $JHK_s$, Period--Luminosity relations (PLRs) for RR Lyrae variables in the Messier 53 (M53 or NGC 5024) globular cluster. Multi-epoch $JHK_s$ observations, obtained with the WIRCam instrument on the 3.6-m…

We report the results of CCD V and r photometry of the globular cluster NGC 5466. The difference image analysis technique adopted in this work has resulted in accurate time series photometry even in crowded regions of the cluster enabling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Arellano Ferro , V. Rojas Lopez , Sunetra Giridhar , D. M. Bramich

Traditional photometric redshift methods use only color information about the objects in question to estimate their redshifts. This paper introduces a new method utilizing colors, luminosity, surface brightness, and radial light profile to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 James J. Wray , James E. Gunn

We present newly-calibrated period-$\phi_{31}$-[Fe/H] relations for fundamental mode RR Lyrae stars in the optical and, for the first time, mid-infrared. This work's calibration dataset provides the largest and most comprehensive span of…

We present the first full release of a survey of the 150 MHz radio sky, observed with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope between April 2010 and March 2012 as part of the TGSS project. Aimed at producing a reliable compact source survey,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 H. T. Intema , P. Jagannathan , K. P. Mooley , D. A. Frail

We present a detailed light curve analysis of RR Lyrae variables at multiple wavelengths using Fourier decomposition method. The time-series data for RR Lyrae variables in the Galactic bulge and the Magellanic Clouds are taken from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-05 Susmita Das , Anupam Bhardwaj , Shashi M. Kanbur , Harinder P. Singh , Marcella Marconi