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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 a comprehensive catalog of 2824 RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) residing in 115 Galactic globular clusters (GCs). Our catalog includes 1594 fundamental-mode (RRab), 824 first-overtone (RRc), and 28 double-mode (RRd) RRLs, as well as 378…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-15 Mauricio Cruz Reyes , Richard I. Anderson , Lucas Johansson , Henryka Netzel , Zoé Medaric

We made a survey of the variable stars in a $13.2 \times 13.2$ arcmin$^2$ centered on the field of the Galactic bulge cluster NGC 6558. A total of 78 variables was found in the field of the cluster. Many of these variables are included in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-02 A. Arellano Ferro , L. J. Zerpa Guillen , M. A. Yepez , I. H. Bustos Fierro , Z. Prudil , C. E. Pérez Parra

We present a CCD $VI$ photometric study of the globular cluster M14. Particular attention is given to the variable stars. This allowed new classifications and cluster membership considerations. New variables are reported; 3 RRc, 18 SR and 1…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-19 M. A. Yepez , A. Arellano Ferro , D. Deras , I. Bustos Fierro , S. Muneer , K. -P. Schröder

We present time-series B, V photometry of NGC 6229, obtained with the purpose of providing the first extensive CCD variability study of this cluster. As a result, we were able to obtain periods for all NGC 6229 variables, with the exception…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. Borissova , M. Catelan , T. Valchev

We present a new, deep (V ~ 26) study of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 2419 based on B,V,I time-series CCD photometry over about 10 years and extending beyond the cluster published tidal radius. We have identified 101 variable stars of…

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

Using an image subtraction method we have searched for variable stars in the globular cluster M14. We confirmed 62 previously known catalogued variables. In addition to the previoulsy known variables we have identified 71 new variables. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-05-15 Kyle E. Conroy , Andrew N. Darragh , Zheyu J. Liu , Brian W. Murphy

CCD observations for 10 (6 previously known and 4 newly discovered) of the 11 RR Lyrae variables in NGC 5897 have been analysed. The period-luminosity and period-amplitude plots indicate that the population of RR Lyrae variables in NGC 5897…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Christine M. Clement , Jason F. Rowe

We present results of a search for variable stars in a region of the globular cluster NGC 4147 based on photometric observations with 4k x 4k CCD imager mounted at the axial port of the recently installed 3.6 m Devasthal optical telescope…

In this paper, we report the detections of stellar variabilities from the first 2-year observations of sky area of about 1300 square degrees from the Tsinghua University-NAOC Transient Survey (TNTS). A total of 1237 variable stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Xinyu Yao , Lingzhi Wang , Xiaofeng Wang , Tianmeng Zhang , Juncheng Chen , Wenlong Yuan , Jun Mo , Wenxiong Li , Zhiping Jin , Xuefeng Wu , JunDan Nie , Xu Zhou

We present a CCD $VI$ time-series analysis of the globular cluster NGC 6139 and its variable star population. Using the astrometric data available in $Gaia$-DR3 we performed a membership analysis that enabled the construction of a clean…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 M. A. Yepez , A. Arellano Ferro , I. Bustos Fierro , A. Luna

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

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Charles A. Kuehn , Horace A. Smith , Marcio Catelan , Barton J. Pritzl , Nathan De Lee , Jura Borissova

We report evidence for a new class of variable star, which we dub millimagnitude RR Lyrae (mmRR). From K2 observations of the globular cluster M4, we find that out of 24 horizontal branch stars not previously known to be RR Lyrae variables,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-09 Joshua J. Wallace , Joel D. Hartman , Gaspar A. Bakos , Waqas Bhatti

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

Results of a search for variable stars in the central region of the globular cluster M13 are presented. Prior to this study, 36 variable and suspected variable stars were known in this cluster (Osborn 2000; Clement et al. 2001). Of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Kopacki , Z. Kolaczkowski , A. Pigulski

This is the third in a series of papers studying the variable stars in old globular clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The primary goal of this series is to look at how the characteristics and behavior of RR Lyrae stars in…

We present V and B-band CCD photometry of 35 RR Lyr stars in the southern hemisphere globular cluster NGC 6362. Fourier decomposition of the light curves was used to estimate the basic properties of these variables. From the analysis of the…

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

We conducted a variable star search on the metal-rich Galactic globular cluster NGC 6652 using archival Gemini-S/GMOS data. We report the discovery of nine new variable stars in the NGC 6652 field, of which we classify six as eclipsing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Ricardo Salinas , A. Katherina Vivas , Rodrigo Contreras Ramos

We study the variable star content of the globular cluster M53 to compute the physical parameters of the constituting stars and the distance of the cluster. Covering two adjacent seasons in 2007 and 2008, new photometric data are gathered…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Istvan Dekany , Geza Kovacs