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We present new BV CCD photometry, light curves, and ephemerides for 9 previously known, 29 newly detected RR Lyrae variables and one newly detected variable of an unknown type in the globular cluster M75. The photometry used for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. M. Corwin , M. Catelan , H. A. Smith , J. Borissova , F. R. Ferraro , W. S. Raburn

We have performed a photometric V, R, I CCD time-series analysis with a baseline of ~8 years of the outer-halo globular cluster NGC 7492 with the aim of searching for new variables and using these (and the previously known variables) to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 R. Figuera Jaimes , A. Arellano Ferro , D. M. Bramich , Sunetra Giridhar , K. Kuppuswamy

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 the results of a search for variable stars in the globular cluster NGC 5286, which has recently been suggested to be associated with the Canis Major dwarf spheroidal galaxy. 57 variable stars were detected, only 19 of which had…

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 describe and summarize the findings from our CCD time-series photometry of globular clusters (GCs) program and the use of difference image analysis (DIA) in the extraction of very precise light curves even in the crowded central regions…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 A. Arellano Ferro , D. M. Bramich , S. Giridhar

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

We present BV photometry for 54 variables in the metal-rich inner halo globular cluster NGC6723. With the discovery of new RR Lyrae variables (RRLs), we obtain <P_ab> = 0.541 +/- 0.066 and <P_c> = 0.292 +/- 0.030 day, n(c)/n(ab+c) = 0.167,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Jae-Woo Lee , Mercedes Lopez-Morales , Kyeong-Soo Hong , Young-Woon Kang , Brian L. Pohl , Alistair Walker

We describe here results of a photometric time-sequence survey of the globular cluster M3 (NGC 5272), in a search for contact and detached eclipsing binary stars. We have discovered only one likely eclipsing binary and one SX Phe type star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. Kaluzny , R. W. Hilditch , C. Clement , S. M. Rucinski

The first calibrated broadband BVI time-series photometry is presented for the variable stars in NGC 2808, with observations spanning a range of twenty-eight years. We have also redetermined the variability types and periods for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Andrea Kunder , Peter B. Stetson , Marcio Catelan , Alistair R. Walker , Pia Amigo

We present a new search for variable stars in the Galactic globular cluster M28 (NGC 6626). The search is based on a series of BVI images obtained with the SMARTS Consortium's 1.3m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 G. Prieto , M. Catelan , R. Contreras Ramos , B. J. Pritzl , H. A. Smith , J. Alonso-Garcia

We report the mean metallicity and absolute magnitude of RR Lyrae stars in a sample of 37 globular clusters, calculated via the Fourier decomposition of their light curves and ad hoc semiempirical calibrations, in an unprecedented…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 A. Arellano Ferro

We present the results from 10 nights of observations of the globular cluster NGC 6981 (M72) in the V, R and I Johnson wavebands. We employed the technique of difference image analysis to perform precision differential photometry on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. M. Bramich , R. Figuera Jaimes , Sunetra Giridhar , A. Arellano Ferro

We present preliminary results of the variability survey in the field of the glo bular cluster NGC 4833. We observed all 34 variable stars known in the cluster. In add ition, we have found two new SX Phoenicis stars, one new RR Lyrae star,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Grzegorz Kopacki

Time-series \emph{VI} CCD photometry of the globular cluster NGC 1261 is employed to study its variable star population. A membership analysis of most variables based on Gaia~DR2 proper motions and colours, was performed prior to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 A. Arellano Ferro , I. H. Bustos Fierro , J. H. Calderón , J. A. Ahumada

We present the analysis of 11 nights of V and I time-series observations of the globular cluster NGC 1904 (M 79). Using this we searched for variable stars in this cluster and attempted to refine the periods of known variables, making use…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 N. Kains , D. M. Bramich , R. Figuera Jaimes , A. Arellano Ferro , S. Giridhar , K. Kuppuswamy

[Abridged] We present the results of a Hubble Space Telescope snapshot program to survey the inner region of the globular cluster NGC 6441 for its variable stars. A total of 57 variable stars was found including 38 RR Lyrae stars, 6…

This is the first in a series of papers studying the variable stars in Large Magellanic Cloud globular clusters. The primary goal of this series is to better understand how the RR Lyrae stars in Oosterhoff-intermediate systems compare to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Charles A. Kuehn , Horace A. Smith , Márcio Catelan , Barton J. Pritzl , Nathan De Lee , Jura Borissova

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 applied the image subtraction method to images of the peculiar, bimodal-horizontal branch globular cluster NGC 2808, taken over a total of six nights over a range of five months. As a result, we have found, for the first time, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. M. Corwin , M. Catelan , J. Borissova , H. A. Smith