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Using archival multi--epoch ACS/WFC images in the F606W and F814W filters of a resolved stellar field in Local Group dwarf elliptical galaxy M32 we have made an accurate Colour-Magnitude Diagram and a careful search for RR Lyr variable…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 G. Fiorentino , R. Contreras Ramos , E. Tolstoy , G. Clementini , A. Saha

Three fields located close to the center of the globular cluster Omega Cen were surveyed in a search for variable stars. We present V-band light curves for 32 periodic variables. This sample includes 10 SX Phe stars, 19 eclipsing binaries,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Kaluzny , M. Kubiak , M. Szymanski , A. Udalski , W. Krzeminski , M. Mateo , K. Stanek

The fourteenth part of the OGLE-III Catalog of Variable Stars (OIII-CVS) contains Cepheid variables detected in the OGLE-II and OGLE-III fields toward the Galactic bulge. The catalog is divided into two main categories: 32 classical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-04 I. Soszynski , A. Udalski , P. Pietrukowicz , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , L. Wyrzykowski , K. Ulaczyk , R. Poleski , S. Kozlowski

RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) are easy to identify thanks to their large photometric variation and short periods. All stars in the RRL instability strip are pulsators is often a hidden assumption in most stellar population studies using RRLs.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-06 Yuxi Lu , Cecilia Mateu , K. Z. Stanek

(Abridged) We present the results of variable star searches of the M31 dwarf spheroidal companions Andromeda I and Andromeda III using the Hubble Space Telescope. A total of 100 variable stars were found in Andromeda I, while 56 were found…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Barton J. Pritzl , Taft E. Armandroff , George H. Jacoby , G. S. Da Costa

We have compiled the first all-sky mid-infrared variable-star catalog based on Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) five-year survey data. Requiring more than 100 detections for a given object, 50,282 carefully and robustly selected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Xiaodian Chen , Shu Wang , Licai Deng , Richard de Grijs , Ming Yang

We present theoretical predictions concerning horizontal branch stars in globular clusters, including RR Lyrae variables, as derived from synthetic procedures collating evolutionary and pulsational constraints. On this basis, we explore the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Cassisi , M. Castellani , F. Caputo , V. Castellani

We present the OGLE collection of delta Scuti stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud and in its foreground. Our dataset encompasses a total of 15 256 objects, constituting the largest sample of extragalactic delta Sct stars published so far.…

We use the pulsational properties of the RR Lyrae variables in the globular cluster NGC 1851 to obtain detailed constraints of the various sub-stellar populations present along its horizontal branch. On the basis of detailed synthetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Andrea Kunder , Maurizio Salaris , Santi Cassisi , Roberto de Propris , Alistair Walker , Peter B. Stetson , Marcio Catelan , Pia Amigo

Ultralow amplitude (ULA) and strange mode Cepheids are thought to be pulsating variable stars that are near to or are at the edges of the classical instability strip. Until now, a few dozen such variable star candidates have been found both…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Dóra Tarczay-Nehéz , László Molnár , Attila Bódi , Róbert Szabó

We present the discovery of 816 high amplitude infrared variable stars ($\Delta K_{\rm s} >$ 1 mag) in 119 deg$^2$ of the Galactic midplane covered by the Vista Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey. Almost all are new discoveries and…

Messier 15 (NGC 7078) is an old and metal-poor post core-collapse globular cluster which hosts a rich population of variable stars. We report new optical ($gi$) and near-infrared (NIR, $JK_s$) multi-epoch observations for 129 RR Lyrae, 4…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Anupam Bhardwaj , Marina Rejkuba , G. C. Sloan , Marcella Marconi , Soung-Chul Yang

The RR Lyrae instability strip (IS) in NGC 1851 is investigated, and a model is presented which reproduces the pulsational properties of the RR Lyrae population. In our model, a stellar component within the IS that displays minor helium…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-14 Andrea Kunder , Maurizio Salaris , Santi Cassisi , Roberto de Propris , Alistair Walker , Peter B. Stetson , Marcio Catelan , Pia Amigo

We present time-series VI photometry of the metal-rich ([Fe/H] = -0.53) globular cluster NGC 6441. Our color-magnitude diagram shows that the extended blue horizontal branch seen in Hubble Space Telescope data exists in the outermost…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. C. Layden , L. A. Ritter , D. L. Welch , T. M. A. Webb

We have surveyed Andromeda VI, a dwarf spheroidal galaxy companion to M31, for variable stars using F450W and F555W observations obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. A total of 118 variables were found, with 111 being RR Lyrae, 6…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Barton J. Pritzl , Taft E. Armandroff , George H. Jacoby , Gary S. Da Costa

We present a new catalogue of variable stars compiled from data taken for the University of New South Wales Extrasolar Planet Search. From 2004 October to 2007 May, 25 target fields were each observed for 1-4 months, resulting in ~87000…

We have performed a search for variable stars in the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 6822 using wide-field multi-epoch VI photometry down to a limiting magnitude $V$ $\sim$ 22. Apart from the Cepheid variables in this galaxy already reported in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. E. Mennickent , W. Gieren , I. Soszynski , G. Pietrzynski

Results are presented of a study of the variable star populations in the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Leo I and in the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 6822, based on time series photometry obtained with the Wide Field Imager of the 2.2 m ESO/MPI…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Baldacci , F. Matonti , L. Rizzi , G. Clementini , E. V. Held , Y. Momany , L. Di Fabrizio , I. Saviane

We extract light curves for 4554 objects with $9<G<19$ in the K2 superstamp observations of the globular cluster M4, including 3784 cluster members, and search for variability. Among cluster member objects, we detect 66 variables, of which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Joshua J. Wallace , Joel D. Hartman , Gaspar A. Bakos , Waqas Bhatti