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We conduct an analysis of over 60,000 dwarf galaxies (7<=log(M_*/M_\odot)<=10) in search of photometric variability indicative of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Using data from the Young Supernova Experiment (YSE), a time domain survey on…

Previous X-ray observations toward the Nuclear Star Cluster (NSC) at the Galactic center have discovered thousands of point sources, most of which were believed to be cataclysmic variables (CVs), i.e., a white dwarf (WD) accreting from a…

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We present a novel method to detect variable astrophysical objects and transient phenomena using anomalous excess scatter in repeated measurements from public catalogs of Gaia DR2 and Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) DR3 photometry. We first…

Ultraviolet observations using the Solar Blind Channel on the Hubble Space Telescope provide light curves and low resolution spectra of three pulsating white dwarfs in the cataclysmic variables SDSS013132.39-090122.3,…

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

The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) imaged the sky in the Ultraviolet (UV) for almost a decade, delivering the first sky surveys at these wavelengths. Its database contains far-UV (FUV, $\lambda$$_{eff}$ $\sim$ 1528\AA) and near-UV (NUV,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 Luciana Bianchi

The potential of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey for wide-field variability studies is illustrated using multi-epoch observations for 3,000,000 point sources observed in 700 deg2 of sky, with time spans ranging from 3 hours to 3 years. These…

We present the full spectroscopic white dwarf and hot subdwarf sample from the SDSS first data release, DR1. We find 2551 white dwarf stars of various types, 240 hot subdwarf stars, and an additional 144 objects we have identified as…

In a recent paper, Romero et al. (1999) have presented the results of a positional correlation analysis of the low-latitude unidentified gamma-ray sources in the Third EGRET catalog with complete lists of galactic objects like supernova…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gustavo E. Romero , Diego F. Torres , P. Benaglia , J. A. Combi , B. Punsly

We present a method to reliably select variable white dwarfs from large area time domain surveys and apply this method in a pilot study to search for pulsating white dwarfs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82. From a sample 400…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-29 Nicola Pietro Gentile Fusillo , J. J. Hermes , Boris T. Gänsicke

LINER nuclei, which are present in many nearby galactic bulges, may be the manifestation of low-rate or low-radiative-efficiency accretion onto supermassive central black holes. However, it has been unclear whether the compact UV nuclear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dan Maoz , Neil M. Nagar , Heino Falcke , Andrew S. Wilson

We present initial results of the first panoramic search for high-amplitude near-infrared variability in the Galactic Plane. We analyse the widely separated two-epoch K-band photometry in the 5th and 7th data releases of the UKIDSS Galactic…

Cataclysmic variables (CVs) are binary systems with a white dwarf accreting matter from a low-mass star, making them significant sources of X-ray emission in the Galaxy. We present a systematic search for X-ray emitting CV candidates by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Xiangxiang Wang , Jumpei Takata

We use ~12,000 spectra of ~3,500 magnetically active M0-M9 dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey taken at 10-15 minute intervals, together with ~300 spectra of ~60 M0-M8 stars obtained hourly with the Hydra multi-object spectrometer, to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Keaton J. Bell , Eric J. Hilton , James R. A. Davenport , Suzanne L. Hawley , Andrew A. West , Allen B. Rogel

Blazars are a class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) known for their very rapid variabilty in the high energy regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Despite this known fast variability, X-ray observations have generally not revealed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Matthew Pryal , Abe Falcone , Michael Stroh

The variability of the continuum spectral energy distribution has been analyzed for a complete magnitude-limited sample of quasars in Selected Area 57, observed at two epochs in the photographic $U$, $B_J$, $F$ and $N$ bands with the Mayall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dario Trevese , Richard G. Kron , Alessandro Bunone

The Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) Survey on the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) is designed to systematically explore the dynamic radio sky, detecting sources that vary on timescales from minutes to several years. In this paper, we…

We report the results of a diffraction-limited, photometric variability study of the central 5"x5" of the Galaxy conducted over the past 10 years using speckle imaging techniques on the W. M. Keck I 10 m telescope. Within our limiting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Rafelski , A. M. Ghez , S. D. Hornstein , J. R. Lu , M. Morris

We describe a 22-year survey for variable and transient radio sources, performed with archival images taken with the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (MOST). This survey covers $2775 \unit{deg^2}$ of the sky south of $\delta <…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Keith Bannister , Tara Murphy , Bryan M. Gaensler , Richard Hunstead , Shami Chatterjee

The Quintuplet cluster is one of the most massive star clusters in the Milky Way, situated very close to the Galactic center. We present a new search for variable stars in the vicinity of the cluster, using the five-year database of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-26 C. Navarro Molina , J. Borissova , M. Catelan , J. Alonso-García , E. Kerins , R. Kurtev , P. W. Lucas , N. Medina , D. Minniti , I. Dékány