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We report the results of a time-series CCD photometric survey of variable stars in the field of the open cluster NGC 2126. In about one square degree field covering the cluster, a total number of 21 variable candidates are detected during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Shun-Fang Liu , Zhen-Yu Wu , Xiao-Bin Zhang , Jiang-Hua Wu , Jun Ma , Zhao-Ji Jiang , Jian-Sheng Chen , Xu Zhou

This project is a massive near-infrared (NIR) search for variable stars in highly reddened and obscured open cluster (OC) fields projected on regions of the Galactic bulge and disk. The search is performed using photometric NIR data in the…

The 2MASS photometric calibration observations cover ~6 square degrees on the sky in 35 "calibration fields" each sampled in nominal photometric conditions between 562 and 3692 times during the four years of the 2MASS mission. We compile a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Peter Plavchan , M. Jura , J. Davy Kirkpatrick , Roc M. Cutri , S. C. Gallagher

The upcoming NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) will obtain space-based uninterrupted light curves for a large sample of bright white dwarfs distributed across the entire sky, providing a very rich resource for…

This paper presents the results of our extensive search for the bright variable stars in approximately 30000 square degrees of the south sky in the I-band data collected by 9 deg x 9 deg camera of the All Sky Automated Survey between 2002…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-06 Monika Sitek , Grzegorz Pojmanski

We present the results of a high-cadence photometric survey of an $11'\times11'$ field centred on the globular cluster M71, with the Near-Infrared Transiting ExoplanetS Telescope. The aim of our survey is to search for stellar variability…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. McCormac , I. Skillen , D. Pollacco , F. Faedi , G. Ramsay , V. S. Dhillon , I. Todd , A. Gonzalez

We develop a new and powerful method to analyze time series to rigorously detect flares in the presence of an irregularly oscillatory baseline, and apply it to stellar light curves observed with TESS. First, we remove the underlying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Qiyuan Wang , Giovanni Motta , Genaro Sucarrat , Vinay L. Kashyap

A search for variable stars is performed using two epochs of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) imaging data for a 9.28 square arcminute portion of M31. This data set reveals 254 sources that vary by at least…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Benjamin F. Williams

The Chinese Small Telescope ARray (CSTAR) is the first telescope facility built at Dome A, Antarctica. During the 2008 observing season, the installation provided long-baseline and high-cadence photometric observations in the i-band for…

The study of open clusters and their short period variable stars is fundamental in stellar evolution. Because the cluster members are formed in almost the same physical conditions, they share similar stellar properties such age and chemical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-07 J. H. Peña , L. Fox-Machado , H. García , A. Rentería , E. Romero , S. Skinner , A. Espinosa

We present a method that enables wide field ground-based telescopes to scan the sky for sub-second stellar variability. The method has operational and image processing components. The operational component is to take star trail images. Each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-28 David Thomas , Steven M Kahn

During the last two years we have received long time-series photometric observations of bright (V mag < 8) main-sequence A- and B-type stars observed by the NASA TESS spacecraft and the Austria-Poland-Canada BRITE satellites. Using TESS…

Visual photometry, the estimation of stellar brightness by eye, continues to provide valuable data even in this highly-instrumented era. However, the eye-brain system functions differently from electronic sensors and its products can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-02 Alan B. Whiting

A group of poorly studied eclipsing variables (the classification of which is marked as uncertain and/or the period of brightness changes is uncertain) has been studied with the using of the photometric observations of the TESS mission and…

This study aims to assess the properties and classification of 40 variable stars in Sagittarius, little studied since their discovery and reported in the Information Bulletin on Variable Stars (IBVS) 985 and update. Using data from previous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-07 G. Agli' , G. Arcomano , G. Bello , V. Bocchino , G. Bruno , C. Carro , M. Charrier , F. Fantino , G. Hu , M. Ricco , M. Ughetto-Monfrin , C. Benna , D. Gardiol , G. Pettiti , -

Photometric data from the ASAS - South (declination less than 29 deg) survey have been used for identification of bright stars located near the sources from the ROSAT All Sky Survey Bright Source Catalog (RBSC). In total 6028 stars brighter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-18 M. Kiraga

Stellar rotation is a fundamental observable that drives different aspects of stellar and planetary evolution. In this work, we present an unprecedented manifold analysis of 160 B-type stars with light curves collected by the TESS space…

We describe the construction of a highly reliable sample of approximately 7,000 optically faint periodic variable stars with light curves obtained by the asteroid survey LINEAR across 10,000 sq.deg of northern sky. Majority of these…

Semi-Detached binary stars are very important systems for the precise determination of astrophysical parameters and the analysis of mass transfer and loss mechanisms between the components. In this study, the light curve analysis of some…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-07 Fahri Alicavus

A complete catalogue of variable stars in the possible observing areas (``eyes'') of the CoRoT satellite is presented. All known data sources were cross-correlated and compiled confirming the variability of 81 stars formerly known as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Benko , Z. Csubry