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Stars exhibit a bewildering variety of variable behaviors ranging from explosive magnetic flares to stochastically changing accretion to periodic pulsations or rotations. The principal LSST surveys will have cadences too sparse and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-24 Eric D. Feigelson , Frederica Bianco , Sara Bonito

This work presents the first large-scale photometric variability survey of the intermediate age (~200 Myr) open cluster M11. Thirteen nights of data over two observing seasons were analyzed (using crowded field and ensemble photometry…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan R. Hargis , Eric L. Sandquist , David H. Bradstreet

We have conducted a photometric survey of the globular cluster NGC 6397 in a search for variable stars. We obtained ~11h of time-resolved photometric images with one ne European Southern Observatory-Very Large Telescope using the FOcal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-31 E. Martinazzi , S. O. Kepler , J. E. S. Costa

The total-to-selective extinction RV in the direction of a cluster is found to be 3.12 +/- 0.2 (close to its normal value). We derive the luminosity and mass functions for the cluster main sequence stars. The mass function slope is found to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-14 Gireesh C. Joshi

We present results of a variability search in the intermediate-age open cluster NGC 6866 from 29 nights over two observing seasons. We find 28 periodic variables, of which 19 are newly identified. The periods of these variables, which have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yogesh C. Joshi , Santosh Joshi , Brijesh Kumar , Soumen Mondal , L. A. Balona

We use differential CCD photometry to search for variability in BVI among 990 stars projected in and around the old open cluster M 67. In a previous paper we reported results for 22 cluster members that are optical counterparts to X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. G. Stassun , M. van den Berg , R. D. Mathieu , F. Verbunt

We report the results of a diffraction-limited, photometric variability study of the central 5"x5" of the Galaxy conducted over the past 10 years using speckle imaging techniques on the W. M. Keck I 10 m telescope. Within our limiting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Rafelski , A. M. Ghez , S. D. Hornstein , J. R. Lu , M. Morris

Images recorded with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini South are combined with archival images from other facilities to search for variable stars in the southern portion of the nearby disk galaxy NGC 247. Fifteen new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-09-29 T. J. Davidge

We report VI CCD photometry of the globular cluster cluster NGC 1851. We aim to study the membership of the variable stars detected in the field of the cluster as listed in the Catalogue of Variable stars in Globular Clusters (CVSGC;…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-22 A. Arellano Ferro , C. E. Pérez Parra , M. A. Yepez , I. H. Bustos Fierro , Z. Prudil , L. J. Zerpa Guillen

We have conducted a 1.5 year-long variability study of the stars in the Cygnus OB2 association, the region in the northern hemisphere with the highest density of optically visible massive stars. The survey was conducted using four pointings…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-27 J. Salas , J. Maíz Apellániz , R. H. Barbá

We have used DOLORES at the TNG to obtain B,V time series photometry of NGC 2419, one of the most distant and bright clusters in the Galactic halo. These data will be used to study its variable star population in order to check whether the…

The variable star population of the galactic globular cluster NGC 1851 (C0512-400) has been studied by CCD photometry, from observations made in the B, V, and I bands during 1993-4. Light curves are presented for 29 variables, seven of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Alistair R. Walker

We present a $\approx 11.5$ year adaptive optics (AO) study of stellar variability and search for eclipsing binaries in the central $\sim 0.4$ pc ($\sim 10''$) of the Milky Way nuclear star cluster. We measure the photometry of 563 stars…

This work presents the charge-coupled device (CCD) photometric survey of the old open cluster NGC 188. Time-series V-band photometric observations were conducted for ten nights in January 2017 using the Nanshan One-meter Wide-field…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Fang-Fang Song , Hu-Biao Niu , Ali Esamdin , Yu Zhang , Xiang-Yun Zeng

We obtained a series of more than two hundred R-band CCD images for the crowded central (115"x77") region of the metal-poor globular cluster M15 with an angular resolution of 0.5"-0.9" in most images. Optimal image subtraction was used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander P. Zheleznyak , Valery V. Kravtsov

We present a comprehensive re-analysis of stellar photometric variability in the field of the open cluster M37 following the application of a new photometry and de-trending method to MMT/Megacam image archive. This new analysis allows a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. -W. Chang , Y. -I. Byun , J. D. Hartman

A photometric study of variable stars in the field of old open cluster NGC 188 is discussed. Observations were carried out in two bands R and I for 5513 stars up to R = 17 mag in the field of 1.5 x 1.5 grad. around the cluster. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-19 A. A. Popov , V. V. Krushinsky , E. A. Avvakumova , A. Y. Burdanov , A. F. Punanova , I. S. Zalozhnih

We investigate the variability properties of main sequence stars in the first month of Kepler data, using a new astrophysically robust systematics correction, and find that 60% of stars are more variable then the active Sun. We define low…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-24 Amy McQuillan , Suzanne Aigrain , Stephen Roberts

We present the first CCD photometric observations of the northern open cluster NGC 2126. Data were taken on eight nights in February and December 2002 with a total time span of ~57 hours. Almost 1000 individual V-band frames were examined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-09 A. Gaspar , L. L. Kiss , T. R. Bedding , A. Derekas , S. Kaspi , Cs. Kiss , K. Sarneczky , Gy. M. Szabo , M. Varadi

We have investigated the variable stars in the field surrounding NGC 2355 based on the time-series photometric observation data. More than 3000 CCD frames were obtained in the V band spread over 13 nights with the Nanshan One-meter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Hong Wang , Yu Zhang , Xiangyun Zeng , Qingshun Hu , Jinzhong Liu , Mingfeng Qin , Guoliang Lü