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Planets orbiting members of open or globular clusters offer a great opportunity to study exoplanet populations systematically as stars within clusters provide a mostly homogeneous sample at least in chemical composition and stellar age.…

We present a study of the bright detached eclipsing main sequence binary WOCS 11028 (Sanders 617) in the open cluster M67. Although the binary has only one eclipse per orbital cycle, we show that the masses of the stars can be derived very…

We have obtained spectra of the yellow giant S1040 in the open cluster M67 using the Goddard High-Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) and the Faint Object Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope. S1040 is a single-lined spectroscopic binary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 W. Landsman , J. Aparicio , P. Bergeron , R. Di Stefano , T. Stecher

Previous studies on the rotation of Sun-like stars revealed that the rotational rates of young stars converge towards a well-defined evolution that follows a power-law decay. It seems, however, that some binary stars do not obey this…

The old open cluster M67 is an ideal testbed for current cluster evolution models because of its dynamically evolved structure and rich stellar populations that show clear signs of interaction between stellar, binary and cluster evolution.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jarrod R. Hurley , Onno R. Pols , Sverre J. Aarseth , Christopher A. Tout

We present rotational and astrometric parameters of three millisecond pulsars located near the center of the globular cluster NGC 6266 (M62) resulting from timing observations with the Parkes radio telescope. Their accelerations toward the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Possenti , N. D'Amico , R. N. Manchester , F. Camilo , A. G. Lyne , J. Sarkissian , A. Corongiu

To confirm faint Be/X-ray binary candidates from the XMM-Newton survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud, we searched for X-ray outbursts in archival ROSAT observations. We found that RXJ0123.4-7321 was much brighter when detected with ROSAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-31 R. Sturm , F. Haberl , W. Pietsch , A. Udalski

We measured the radial velocity of 139 stars in the region of NGC 6253, discussing cluster's membership and binarity in this sample, complementing our analysis with photometric, proper motion, and radial velocity data available from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 M. Montalto , S. Villanova , J. Koppenhoefer

M35 is a young open cluster and home to an extensive binary population. Using Gaia DR3, Pan-STARRS, and 2MASS photometry with the Bayesian statistical software, BASE-9, we derive precise cluster parameters, identify single and binary…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-12 Erin Motherway , Aaron M. Geller , Anna C. Childs , Claire Zwicker , Ted von Hippel

In this paper we present the identification of two periodic X-ray signals coming from the direction of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). On detection with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), the 175.4s and 85.4s pulsations were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 L. J. Townsend , S. P. Drave , A. B. Hill , M. J. Coe , R. H. D. Corbet , A. J. Bird

We report on a new Be/X-ray pulsar binary located in the Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The strong pulsed X-ray source was discovered with the Chandra and XMM-Newton X-ray observatories. The X-ray pulse period of 1062 s is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 V. Hénault-Brunet , L. M. Oskinova , M. A. Guerrero , W. Sun , Y. -H. Chu , C. J. Evans , J. S. Gallagher , R. A. Gruendl , J. Reyes-Iturbide

Photometric observations of the supersoft X-ray source 1E 0035.4-7230 obtained during two years reveal that the very blue optical counterpart (V (maximum)=20.2, B-V=-0.15, U-B=-1.06) undergoes nearly sinusoidal variations with a period of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 P. C. Schmidtke , A. P. Cowley , T. K. McGrath , J. B. Hutchings , D. Crampton

We probe the spatial and dynamical structure of the old open cluster M67 using photometric data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey's sixth data release. Making use of an optimal contrast, or matched filter, algorithm, we map the distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 James R. A. Davenport , Eric L. Sandquist

The solar-age open cluster M67 (C0847+120, NGC2682) is a touchstone in studies of the old Galactic disk. Despite its outstanding role, the census of cluster membership for M67 at fainter magnitudes and their properties are not…

We have analyzed high-resolution spectra of relatively cool blue stragglers and main sequence turnoff stars in the old open cluster M67 (NGC 2682). We attempt to identify blue stragglers whose spectra are least contaminated by binary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Matthew Shetrone , Eric Sandquist

Details of simultaneous photometric and spectroscopic observations of the optical counterpart of the `supersoft' X-ray source 1E 0035.4-7230 (SMC 13) are presented. Although the spectrum is dominated by emission lines of He II, the Balmer…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Crampton , J. B. Hutchings , A. P. Cowley , P. C. Schmidtke

The old (7 Gyr) open cluster NGC 188 has yielded a wealth of astrophysical insight into its rich blue straggler population. Specifically, the NGC 188 blue stragglers are characterized by: A binary frequency of 80% for orbital periods less…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Robert D. Mathieu , Aaron M. Geller

Recent evolutionary computations predict that a few percent of massive OB stars in binary systems should have a dormant BH companion. Despite several reported X-ray quiet OB+BH systems over the last couple of years, finding them with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 G. Banyard , L. Mahy , H. Sana , J. Bodensteiner , J. I. Villaseńor , K. Sen , N. Langer , S. de Mink , A. Picco , T. Shenar

A correlation of X-ray source and Halpha emission-line object catalogues in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) shows that more than two thirds of the optically identified Be stars in Be/X-ray binaries are found as emission-line objects in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Haberl , M. Sasaki

The formation of hot subdwarf stars (sdBs), which are core helium-burning stars located on the extended horizontal branch, is still not understood. Many of the known hot subdwarf stars reside in close binary systems with short orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 V. Schaffenroth , S. Geier , U. Heber , H. Drechsel , R. H. Østensen , P. F. L. Maxted , T. Kupfer , B. N. Barlow , MUCHFUSS collaboration