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The globular cluster Messier 80 was monitored by the Kepler space telescope for 80 days during the K2 mission. Continuous, high-precision photometry of such an old, compact cluster allows us to study its variable star population in…

In this paper we revisit observational data concerning RR Lyrae stars in Galactic globular clusters, presenting frequency histograms of fundamentalized periods for the 32 clusters having more than 12 pulsators with well recognized period…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Castellani , F. Caputo , V. Castellani

New candidate variable stars have been identified in the Small Magellanic Cloud cluster NGC121, by applying both the image subtraction technique (ISIS, Alard 2000) and the Welch & Stetson (1993) detection method to HST WFPC2 archive and ACS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 G. Fiorentino , R. Contreras , G. Clementini , K. Glatt , E. Sabbi , M. Sirianni , E. Grebel , J. Ghallager

We present a new time-series VI CCD photometry of the globular cluster NGC 6397, from which we obtained and analysed the light curves of 35 variables carefully identified in the cluster field. We assessed the membership of the variables…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 J. A. Ahumada , A. Arellano Ferro , I. Bustos Fierro , C. Lázaro , M. A. Yepez , K. P. Schroeder , J. Calderón

We report CCD V and I time series photometry of the globular cluster NGC 5024 (M53). The technique of difference image analysis has been used which enables photometric precisions better than 10 mmag for stars brighter than V 18.5mag even in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. Arellano Ferro , R. Figuera Jaimes , Sunetra Giridhar , D. M. Bramich , J. V. Hernandez Santisteban , K. Kuppuswamy

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 present a reanalysis of far-ultraviolet (FUV) observations of the globular cluster NGC 2808 obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. These data were first analyzed by Brown and coworkers, with an emphasis on the bright, blue horizontal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Dieball , C. Knigge , D. R. Zurek , M. M. Shara , K. S. Long

We have applied Alard's image subtraction method (ISIS v2.1) to the observations of the globular clusters NGC 6388 and NGC 6441 previously analyzed using standard photometric techniques (DAOPHOT, ALLFRAME). In this reanalysis of…

We have undertaken a search for variable stars in the metal-rich globular cluster NGC 6388 using time-series BV photometry. Twenty-eight new variables were found in this survey, increasing the total number of variables found near NGC 6388…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Barton J. Pritzl , Horace A. Smith , Marcio Catelan , Allen V. Sweigart

We present the catalog of RR Lyrae stars discovered in a 4.5 square degrees area in the central parts of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Presented sample contains 7612 objects, including 5455 fundamental mode pulsators (RRab), 1655…

NGC 6441 is a bulge globular cluster with an unusual horizontal branch morphology and a rich population of RR Lyrae (RRL) and Type II Cepheid (T2C) variables that is unexpected for its relatively high metallicity. We present near-infrared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 A. Bhardwaj , S. M. Kanbur , M. Rejkuba , M. Marconi , M. Catelan , V. Ripepi , H. P. Singh

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

This work presents the first large-scale photometric variability survey of the intermediate age (~200 Myr) open cluster M11. Thirteen nights of data over two observing seasons were analyzed (using crowded field and ensemble photometry…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan R. Hargis , Eric L. Sandquist , David H. Bradstreet

NGC 2808 is a unique globular cluster with not only a bimodal-horizontal branch (HB) but also with gaps on the blue horizontal branch. Adequate interpretation of the nature of the detected peculiarities in "bimodal" and "gap" clusters is of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-03 Andrea Kunder , Peter B. Stetson , Márcio Catelan , Pia Amigo , Roberto De Propris

We present measurements of the periods, amplitudes, and types of 74 RR Lyrae stars in the globular cluster M15 derived from Nickel 1 m telescope observations conducted at LickObservatory in 2019 and 2020. Of these RR Lyrae stars, two were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Andrew M. Hoffman , Yukei S. Murakami , WeiKang Zheng , Benjamin E. Stahl , Alexei V. Filippenko

As a result of the reanalysis of the OGLE-I observations by means of the image subtraction method, we present the first part of a catalog, consisting of the data for variable stars in four Galactic fields observed by the OGLE-I, viz. MM1-A,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Pigulski , Z. Kolaczkowski , G. Kopacki

Photographic plates of the globular cluster M10 (NGC 6254) that were recorded at the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory between 1931 and 1934 have been digitized with a commercial scanner. The plates have numerous cosmetic issues, and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 T. J. Davidge

We have conducted a deep ($15 \la r \la 23$), 20 night survey for transiting planets in the intermediate age ($\sim 550 {\rm Myr}$) open cluster M37 (NGC 2099) using the Megacam wide-field mosaic CCD camera on the 6.5m Multiple Mirror…

New BVI CCD photometry is presented for 60 RR Lyrae variables in the globular cluster M3. Light curves have been constructed and ephemerides have been (re)-derived for all of them. Four stars (i.e. V29, V136, V155 and V209), although…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 E. Carretta , C. Cacciari , F. R. Ferraro , F. Fusi Pecci , G. Tessicini

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…