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A photometric variability study of a sample of northern field stars, which previously classified as either PMS or Herbig Ae/Be objects, has been undertaken with the purpose of detecting {\delta} Scuti-type pulsations. Determination of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-05 D. Díaz-Fraile , E. Rodríguez , P. J. Amado

Using the Hubble Ultraviolet Globular Cluster Survey (HUGS) and additional HST archival data, we have carried out a search for optical counterparts to the low-luminosity Chandra X-ray sources in the globular cluster M4 (NGC 6121). We have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Phyllis M. Lugger , Haldan N. Cohn , Craig O. Heinke , Jiaqi Zhao , Yue Zhao , Jay Anderson

We have undertaken a long-term project, Planets in Stellar Clusters Extensive Search (PISCES), to search for transiting planets in open clusters. In this paper we present the results for NGC 188, an old, rather populous cluster. We have…

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 report on the Chandra ACIS-S3 imaging observation of the globular cluster NGC 6752. We detect 6 X-ray sources within the 10.5" core radius and 13 more within the 115" half-mass radius down to a limiting luminosity of Lx approx 10^{30}…

We present the results of a comprehensive search for stellar variability in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Using the Mount Stromlo 40-inch (1m) telescope at Siding Spring Observatory and a combined V+R filter, we have detected 100…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-18 David T F Weldrake , Penny D Sackett , Terry J Bridges , Kenneth C Freeman

We report the discovery of 6 SX Phoenicis stars in the southern globular cluster NGC 4833. Images were obtained from January through June 2011 with the Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy 0.6 meter telescope located at Cerro…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-17 Andrew N. Darragh , Brian W. Murphy

We present a far-ultraviolet (FUV) study of the globular cluster M30 (NGC 7099). The images were obtained using the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS/SBC, F150LP, FUV) and the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2, F300W, UV) on board the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-22 Santana Mansfield , Andrea Dieball , Pavel Kroupa , Christian Knigge , David R. Zurek , Michael Shara , Knox S. Long

The old and metal rich open cluster NGC 6253 was observed with the FLAMES multi-object spectrograph during an extensive radial velocity campaign monitoring 317 stars with a median of 15 epochs per object. All the targeted stars are located…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 M. Montalto , C. H. F. Melo , N. C. Santos , D. Queloz , G. Piotto , S. Desidera , L. R. Bedin , Y. Momany , I. Saviane

We present the results of a search for periodic variables within 4078 time-series light curves and an analysis of the period-color plane for stars in the field of the open cluster NGC2301. One hundred thirty-eight periodic variables were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-02 Tuguldur Sukhbold , Steve B. Howell

We present high precision CCD photometry of 1791 objects in 20 open clusters with an age from 10 Myr to 1 Gyr. These observations were performed within the Delta a photometric system which is primarily used to detect chemically peculiar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Paunzen , K. Zwintz , H. M. Maitzen , O. I. Pintado , M. Rode-Paunzen

We have undertaken a long-term project, Planets in Stellar Clusters Extensive Search (PISCES), to search for transiting planets in open clusters. As our first target we have chosen NGC 6791 -- a very old, populous, metal rich cluster. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 B. J. Mochejska , K. Z. Stanek , D. D. Sasselov , A. H. Szentgyorgyi

We present the first CCD photometric observations of the northern open cluster NGC 2126. Data were taken on eight nights in February and December 2002 with a total time span of ~57 hours. Almost 1000 individual V-band frames were examined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-09 A. Gaspar , L. L. Kiss , T. R. Bedding , A. Derekas , S. Kaspi , Cs. Kiss , K. Sarneczky , Gy. M. Szabo , M. Varadi

Using light curves with $\sim$3 min cadence and a duration of 2 hrs made using the OmegaWhite survey, we present the results of a search for short-period variable stars in the field of 20 open clusters. We identified 92 variable stars in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 R. Toma , G. Ramsay , C. S. Jeffery , S. A. Macfarlane , P. Woudt , P. J. Groot

We present the commissioning results and first scientific observations from the newly installed TWIST observatory - a 50 cm telescope equipped with an sCMOS camera providing a $36.1\times24.1$ arcmin$^2$ field of view - housed in the former…

We present a combination of high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope and wide-field ground-based and Galaxy Evolution Explorer data of the Galactic Globular Cluster M10 (NGC6254). By using this large data-set we determined the center of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 E. Dalessandro , F. R. Ferraro , B. Lanzoni , R. P. Schiavon , R. W. O'Connell , G. Beccari

We employed the Fast Folding Algorithm (FFA) on L-Band Globular Cluster (GC) observations taken with Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) to search for new pulsars, especially those with a long rotational period. We…

We present new discoveries of variable stars near the turnoff of the old open cluster NGC 7142. Contrary to previous studies, we detect eight contact or near contact eclipsing binaries (including three near the cluster turnoff), and most of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Eric L. Sandquist , Andrew W. Serio , Matthew Shetrone

We report the results of a search for variable stars in the open cluster NGC 2141. Ten variable stars are detected, among which nine are new variable stars and they are classified as three short period W UMa type eclipsing binaries, two EA…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Yangping Luo

We examined 134 Chandra observations of the population of X-ray sources associated with globular clusters (GCs) in the central region of M31. These are expected to be X-ray binary systems (XBs), consisting of a neutron star or black hole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 R. Barnard , M. Garcia , S. S. Murray