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We present the first paper of a series focused on the Blazhko effect in RR Lyrae type stars pulsating in the fundamental mode, that are located in the Galactic bulge. A~comprehensive overview about the incidence rate and light-curve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Zdenek Prudil , Marek Skarka

We present the results of a systematic search for multiperiodic pulsators among the Galactic Bulge RR Lyrae stars of the OGLE-1 sample. We identify one "canonical" double-mode variable (RRd star) pulsating in two radial modes. In 38 stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Moskalik , E. Poretti

We review the recent progress in our understanding of the Blazhko effect in RR Lyrae stars.

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-19 R. Smolec

In spite of the accumulating high quality data on RR Lyrae stars, the underlying cause of the (quasi)periodic light curve modulation (the so-called Blazhko effect) of these objects remains as mysterious as it was more than hundred years ago…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-18 Geza Kovacs

The stellar parameters of RR Lyrae stars vary considerably over a pulsation cycle, and their determination is crucial for stellar modelling. We present a detailed spectroscopic analysis of the pulsating star RR Lyr, the prototype of its…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 L. Fossati , K. Kolenberg , D. V. Shulyak , A. Elmasli , V. Tsymbal , T. G. Barnes , E. Guggenberger , O. Kochukhov

The Blazhko-phenomenon, the modulation of the pulsation of RR Lyrae stars remains one of the most stubborn unsolved problems of stellar pulsation. The recent idea of Stothers proposes that periodic variations in the properties of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 L. Molnár , Z. Kolláth , R. Szabó

We analyzed the incidence and properties of RR Lyrae stars that show evidence for amplitude and phase modulation (the so-called Blazhko Effect) in a sample of $\sim$3,000 stars with LINEAR and ZTF light curve data collected during the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-09 Ema Donev , Željko Ivezić

The popularity of pulsating stars resides in their capacity of determining several crucial and relevant parameters such as heliocentric distances, ages, metallicity gradients and reddening. RR Lyrae stars are old stellar tracers and have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-10 Clara E. Martínez-Vázquez

In this paper it is shown that the Blazhko effect may result from a near-resonant type of multi-mode pulsation, where two (or sometimes more) periodic oscillations with slightly different frequencies gradually slip in phase, producing a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-15 Paul H. Bryant

Extended CCD monitoring of RR Gem revealed that it is a Blazhko type RRab star with the shortest Blazhko period (7.23d) and smallest modulation amplitude (Delta Mmax<0.1 mag) currently known. The short period of the modulation cycle enabled…

Recent progress in the studies of pulsating variable stars is summarized from an observational point of view. A number of unexpected phenomena have been revealed in the case of pulsators in the classical instability strip. These discoveries…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-11 L. Szabados

The long-term behaviours of the pulsation and Blazhko periods of RR Lyr are investigated by means of Kepler and ground-based observations. The difficulties in detecting additional modes in the Cepheids monitored with CoRoT are discussed.

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Ennio Poretti , Jean-Francois Le Borgne , Alain Klotz

Period study of 321 fundamental mode galactic field RR Lyrae type stars (RRab), which had appropriate data in ASAS and SuperWASP surveys, brighter than 12.5 mag in maximum light was performed. We found 100 stars to be definitely modulated.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Marek Skarka

Systematic survey for multiperiodicity in the LMC Cepheids (Moskalik, Kolaczkowski & Mizerski 2004, 2006) has led to discovery of several new forms of pulsational behaviour. One of them is periodic amplitude and phase modulation observed in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 P. Moskalik , Z. Kolaczkowski

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

Context. The Blazhko effect, in RR Lyrae type stars, is a century old mystery. Dozens of theory exists, but none have been able to entirely reproduce the observational facts associated to this modulation phenomenon. Existing theory all rely…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-25 Cyrus Zalian

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…

We reanalyzed the c-type RR Lyrae star BE Dor (MACHO 5.4644.8, OGLE-LMC-RRLYR-06002) that had been discovered to show cyclic period changes. The photometric data of several sky surveys (DASCH, MACHO, OGLE, ASAS-SN, and TESS) were used for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 L. -J. Li , S. -B. Qian , L. -Y. Zhu

We present a highly simplified nonlinear hydrodynamical model to emulate the main observed features of amplitude modulation (commonly known as Blazhko effect) in RR Lyrae stars. The model is based on the assumption that the periodic flow…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-01 Geza Kovacs

Blazhko stars from the extended $BVI_{\mathrm C}$ time series of RRab stars in the globular cluster, M3, are analysed. This is the largest sample of Blazhko stars with full details of their Blazhko properties in a homogeneous stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Johanna Jurcsik