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Direct imaging of the HR8799 system was a major achievement in the study of exoplanets. HR8799 is a $\gamma$\,Doradus variable and asteroseismology can provide an independent constraint on the inclination. Using 650 high signal-to-noise,…

This study has three principal aims: (i) to increase the number of detected pulsation modes of 44 Tau, especially outside the previously known frequency ranges, (ii) to study the amplitude variability and its systematics, and (iii) to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Breger , P. Lenz

A 10-night asteroseismic observation programme has been conducted in January 2004 with the spectrometer Harps at the ES0 3.6-m telescope. The selected target, the 6th magnitude F5V star HD 49933, was chosen among the prime candidates of…

We studied the variability of the magnetic O-type supergiant $\zeta$ Ori Aa using multi-colour BRITE photometry. We confirmed the known rotation frequency $f_{\rm rot} = 0.15 \pm 0.02$ c/d, and detected some of its higher harmonics, of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 B. Buysschaert , C. Neiner , T. Ramiaramanantsoa , N. D. Richardson , A. David-Uraz , A. F. J. Moffat

We present near infrared spectroscopy of the recurrent nova RS Oph obtained on several occasions after its latest outburst in 2006 February. The 1-5 mircon spectra are dominated by the red giant, but the H I, He I, and coronal lines present…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. T. Rushton , B. Kaminsky , D. K. Lynch , Ya. V. Pavlenko , A. Evans , S. P. S. Eyres , C. E. Woodward , R. W. Russell , R. J. Rudy , M. L. Sitko , T. Kerr

We present the results of a 140 ks XMM-Newton observation of the B2 star $\rho$ Ophiuchi A. The star has exhibited strong X-ray variability: a cusp-shaped increase of rate, similar to that which we partially observed in 2013, and a bright…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Ignazio Pillitteri , Scott J. Wolk , Fabio Reale , Lida Oskinova

We examine high-cadence space photometry taken by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) of a sample of evolved massive stars (26 Wolf-Rayet stars and 8 Luminous Blue Variables or candidate LBVs). To avoid confusion problems, only…

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The type I X-ray burster and dipper 4U1915-05 (also known as XB1916-053) was monitored by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer between February and October, 1996. The source was observed in various spectral states; the highest luminosity state…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Barret , L. Boirin , J. F. Olive , J. E. Grindlay , P. F. Bloser , J. Swank , A. P. Smale

Among over 200,000 Galactic Bulge variable stars in the public domain OGLE catalogue, we found over 15,000 red giant variables following two well defined period -- amplitude relations. The periods are in the range 10 < P < 100 days, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. J. Wray , L. Eyer , B. Paczynski

Three topics are discussed: 1) Photometric observations of the rapidly oscillating Ap stars have shown that the pulsation amplitude drops dramatically as a function of wavelength from the blue to the red. A theoretical derivation, plus…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. W. Kurtz

We present results from four years of twice-weekly 15 GHz radio monitoring of about 1500 blazars with the Owens Valley Radio Observatory 40 m telescope. Using the intrinsic modulation index to measure variability amplitude, we find that,…

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The IceCube instrument detected a high-energy cosmic neutrino event on 2017 September 22 (IceCube_170922A, IceCube Collaboration 2018), which the electromagnetic follow-up campaigns associated with the flaring $\gamma$-ray blazar TXS…

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Observations of the ultraviolet continuum of the X-ray binary system Her X-1/HZ Herculis with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on the Hubble Space Telescope show quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) at frequencies of 8+/-2 and 43+/-2…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Boroson , K. O'Brien , K. Horne , T. Kallman , M. Still , P. T. Boyd , H. Quaintrell , S. D. Vrtilek

In this paper, we used the database of the university of Michigan Radio Astronomy Observatory (UMRAO) at three (4.8 GHz, 8.0 GHZ, and 14.5 GHz) radio frequency to analyze the radio light curves by the power spectral analysis method in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. H. Fan , Y. Liu , Y. H. Yuan

We report here multi-epoch, multi-frequency observations of the circular polarization in Sagittarius A*, the compact radio source in the Galactic Center. Data taken from the VLA archive indicate that the fractional circular polarization at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Geoffrey C. Bower , Heino Falcke , Robert J. Sault , Donald C. Backer

We have analysed oscillations of the red giant star HD 186355 observed by the NASA Kepler satellite. The data consist of the first five quarters of science operations of Kepler, which cover about 13 months. The high-precision time-series…

The classical T Tauri star RW Aur A is an irregular variable with a large amplitude in all photometric bands. In an extended series of photometric data we found small-amplitude periodic variations in the blue colours of the star, with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 P. P. Petrov , J. Pelt , I. Tuominen

We present a broad-band timing analysis of the accreting white dwarf system MV Lyrae based on data obtained with the Kepler satellite. The observations span 633 days at a cadence of 58.8 seconds and allow us to probe 4 orders of magnitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Scaringi , E. Koerding , P. Uttley , P. J. Groot , C. Knigge , M. Still , P. Jonker

ALFABURST has been searching for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) commensally with other projects using the Arecibo L-band Feed Array (ALFA) receiver at the Arecibo Observatory since July 2015. We describe the observing system and report on the…

Absorption lines of the 12CO and 13CO molecular bands (Delta v = 2) at 2.29 -- 2.45 micron are modelled in spectrum of Arcturus (K2III). We compute a grid of model atmospheres and synthetic spectra for giant of Teff = 4300, log g = 1.5, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-25 Ya. V. Pavlenko