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We have obtained the most extensive and most accurate photometric data of a Blazhko variable MW Lyr during the 2006-2007 observing seasons. The data within each 0.05 phase bin of the modulation period (P_m=1/f_m) cover the entire light…

The TESS space telescope is collecting continuous, high-precision optical photometry of stars throughout the sky, including thousands of RR Lyrae stars. In this paper, we present results for an initial sample of 118 nearby RR Lyrae stars…

The first detection of the period doubling phenomenon is reported in the Kepler RR Lyrae stars RR Lyr, V808 Cyg and V355 Lyr. Interestingly, all these pulsating stars show Blazhko modulation. The period doubling manifests itself as…

We report the discovery of a new group of double-periodic stars in the OGLE Galactic bulge photometry. In 38 stars identified as fundamental mode RR~Lyrae and 4 classified as the first-overtone RR~Lyrae, we detected additional shorter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-04 Zdenek Prudil , Radoslaw Smolec , Marek Skarka , Henryka Netzel

We have performed a detailed study of the pulsational and evolutionary characteristics of 133 RR Lyrae stars in the globular cluster NGC5272 (M3) using highly accurate BVI data taken on 5 separate epochs. M3 seems to contain no less than…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Cacciari , T. M. Corwin , B. W. Carney

The unprecedented photometric precision along with the quasi-continuous sampling provided by the Kepler space telescope revealed new and unpredicted phenomena that reformed and invigorated RR Lyrae star research. The discovery of period…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Emese Plachy , Róbert Szabó

The analysis of recent, extended multicolour CCD and archive photoelectric, photographic and visual observations has revealed several important properties of RZ Lyr, an RRab-type variable exhibiting large-amplitude Blazhko modulation. On…

RR Lyrae stars for a long time had the reputation of being rather simple pulsators, but the advent of high-precision space photometry has meanwhile changed this picture dramatically. This article summarizes the results obtained for two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Elisabeth Guggenberger

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…

A systematic survey to establish the true incidence rate of the Blazhko modulation among short-period, fundamental-mode, Galactic field RR Lyrae stars has been accomplished. The Konkoly Blazhko Survey (KBS) was initiated in 2004. Since then…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Jurcsik , Á. Sódor , B. Szeidl , Zs. Hurta , M. Váradi , K. Posztobányi , K. Vida , G. Hajdu , Zs. Kővári , I. Nagy , L. Molnár , B. Belucz

Thanks to the space missions CoRoT and Kepler new oscillation frequencies have been discovered in the Fourier spectra of Blazhko RR Lyrae stars. The period doubling (PD) yields half-integer frequencies between the fundamental mode and its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 József M. Benkő , Róbert Szabó

We report the discovery of 73 double-mode RR Lyrae (RRd) stars in fields near the bar of the LMC. The stars are detected among the MACHO database of short-period variables that currently contains about 7900 RR Lyrae stars. Fundamental…

Spectroscopic iron-to-hydrogen ratios, radial velocities, atmospheric parameters, and new photometric analyses are presented for 41 RR Lyrae stars (and one probable high-amplitude delta Scuti star) located in the field-of-view of the Kepler…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 James M. Nemec , Judith G. Cohen , Vincenzo Ripepi , Aliz Derekas , Pawel Moskalik , Branimir Sesar , Merieme Chadid , Hans Bruntt

Additional low-amplitude signals are observed in many RR Lyrae stars, beside the pulsations in radial modes. The most common ones are short-period signals forming a period ratio of around 0.60--0.65 with the first overtone, or long-period…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-27 H. Netzel , L. Molnar , E. Plachy , J. M. Benko

We present our analysis of the long cadence Kepler data for the well-studied Blazhko star RR Lyr, gathered during the first two quarters of the satellite's observations and covering a total of 127d. Besides being of great importance for our…

Extended BV(RI)c CCD observations of SS Cnc, a short period RRab star are presented. Nearly 1400 data points in each band have been obtained spanning over 79 days during the spring of 2005. The star exhibits light curve modulation, the so…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Jurcsik , B. Szeidl , Á. Sódor , I. Dékány , Zs. Hurta , K. Posztobányi , K. Vida , M. Váradi , A. Szing

The light curves of 50 RRab (RR0) stars in M5 collected in Paper I are investigated to detect Blazhko modulation. 18 Blazhko stars are identified, and modulation is suspected in two additional cases. The mean pulsation period of Blazhko…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 J. Jurcsik , B. Szeidl , C. Clement , Zs. Hurta , M. Lovas

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 the first simultaneous photometric and spectroscopic investigation of a large set of RR Lyrae variables in a globular cluster. The radial-velocity data presented comprise the largest sample of RVs of RR Lyrae stars ever obtained.…

The \textit{Kepler} space telescope observed thousands of RR Lyrae stars in the K2 mission. In this paper we present our photometric solutions using extended apertures in order to conserve the flux of the stars to the highest possible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Emese Plachy , László Molnár , Attila Bódi , Marek Skarka , Pál Szabó , Róbert Szabó , Péter Klagyivik , Ádám Sódor , Benjamin J. S. Pope