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M71 is a nearby, metal-rich globular cluster at low Galactic latitude, where field contamination and spatially variable extinction complicate colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) and the identification of cluster member variable stars. Our aims…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-13 C. C. Cortés , D. Deras , A. Arellano Ferro , S. Muneer , I. H. Bustos Fierro

In order to observe nearly simultaneous emission from Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs), the Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE) receives triggers via the GRB Coordinates Network (GCN). Since beginning operations in March, 1998, ROTSE…

RAVE, the RAdial Velocity Experiment, is an ambitious program to conduct a survey to measure the radial velocities, metallicities and abundance ratios for up to a million stars using the 1.2-m UK Schmidt Telescope of the Anglo-Australian…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Siebert , the RAVE collaboration

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 describe photometric recalibration of data obtained by the asteroid survey LINEAR. Although LINEAR was designed for astrometric discovery of moving objects, the dataset described here contains over 5 billion photometric measurements for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Branimir Sesar , J. Scott Stuart , Željko Ivezić , Dylan P. Morgan , Andrew C. Becker , Przemysław Woźniak

This paper is the second in a series describing the southern Galactic Disk Survey (GDS) performed at the Universit\"atssternwarte Bochum near Cerro Armazones in Chile. Haas et al. (2012, Paper I) presented the survey design and a the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-10 M. Hackstein , Ch. Fein , M. Haas , M. Ramolla , F. Pozo Nunez , A. Barr Dominguez , L. Kaderhandt , K. Thomsch , N. Niedworok , Ch. Westhues , R. Chini

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 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

We have started a survey of M 33 in order to find variable stars and Cepheids in particular. We have obtained more than 30 epochs of g'r'i' data with the CFHT and the one-square-degree camera MegaCam. We present first results from this…

The Survey for Transient Astronomical Radio Emission (STARE) is a wide-field monitor for transient radio emission at 611 MHz on timescales of fractions of a second to minutes. Consisting of multiple geographically separated total-power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 C. A. Katz , J. N. Hewitt , C. B. Moore , B. E. Corey

We report the results of our search for pulsating subdwarf B stars in Full Frame Images, sampled at 30 min cadence and collected during Year 1 of the TESS mission. Year 1 covers most of the southern ecliptic hemisphere. The sample of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-09 S. K. Sahoo , A. S. Baran , S. Sanjayan , J. Ostrowski

We explore the synergy between photometric and spectroscopic surveys by searching for periodic variable stars among the targets observed by the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) using photometry from the…

The rapidly oscillating Ap (roAp) stars exhibit pulsational photometric and/or radial velocity variations on time scales of several minutes, which are essential to test current pulsation models as well as our assumptions of atmospheric…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-07 E. Paunzen , G. Handler , K. Honkova , J. Jurysek , M. Masek , M. Drozdz , J. Janik , W. Ogloza , L. Hermansson , M. Johansson , M. Jelinek , M. Skarka , M. Zejda

Investigating variability at the earliest stages of low-mass star formation is fundamental in understanding how a protostar assembles mass. While many simulations of protostellar disks predict non-steady accretion onto protostars, deeper…

We have conducted a large-scale survey of the northern plane using Kiso Wide Field Camera attached to Schmidt telescope at Kiso observatory. The KISOGP (KWFC Intensive Survey of the Galactic Plane) project have made 40-70 epoch observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 Noriyuki Matsunaga

The identification and analysis of different variable sources is a hot issue in astrophysical research. The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) spectroscopic survey has accumulated massive spectral data but…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 Tingting Xu , Chao Liu , Feng Wang , Weirong Huang , Hui Deng , Ying Mei , Zhong Cao

With the advent of surveys generating multi-epoch photometry and their discoveries of large numbers of variable stars, the classification of the obtained times series has to be automated. We have developed a classification algorithm for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Eyer , C. Blake

Apart from recent progress in Gamma Dor stars, identifying modes in rapidly rotating stars is a formidable challenge due to the lack of simple, easily identifiable frequency patterns. As a result, it is necessary to look to observational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 Daniel R. Reese , Marc-Antoine Dupret , Michel Rieutord

Astronomical data are typically irregular in time, e.g. the space (HIPPARCOS/TYCHO, KEPLER, GAIA, WISE etc.) and ground-based CCD (NSVS, ASAS, CRTS, SuperWASP etc.) and photographic (Harvard, Sonneberg, Odessa etc.) photometrical surveys.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-05 Ivan L. Andronov

We present an untriggered search for optical bursts with the ROTSE-I telephoto array. Observations were taken which monitor an effective 256 square degree field continuously over 125 hours to m_{ROTSE}=15.7. The uniquely large field,…