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We report on I band photometric observations of 21 stars with spectral types between M8 and L4 made using the Isaac Newton Telescope. The total amount of time for observations which had a cadence of <2.3 mins was 58.5 hrs, with additional…

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We present results of multi-epoch (fourteen nights during 2007-2010) $V$-band photometry of the cluster NGC 1893 region to identify photometric variable stars in the cluster. The study identified a total of 53 stars showing photometric…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Sneh Lata , A. K. Pandey , W. P. Chen , G. Maheswar , Neelam Chauhan

Photometric measurements are prone to systematic errors presenting a challenge to low-amplitude variability detection. In search for a general-purpose variability detection technique able to recover a broad range of variability types…

In this paper, we report the detections of stellar variabilities from the first 2-year observations of sky area of about 1300 square degrees from the Tsinghua University-NAOC Transient Survey (TNTS). A total of 1237 variable stars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-23 Xinyu Yao , Lingzhi Wang , Xiaofeng Wang , Tianmeng Zhang , Juncheng Chen , Wenlong Yuan , Jun Mo , Wenxiong Li , Zhiping Jin , Xuefeng Wu , JunDan Nie , Xu Zhou

We have conducted a long-term V-band photometric monitoring of M33 on 95 nights during four observing seasons (2000 - 2003). A total number of 6418 lightcurves of bright objects in the range of 14 - 21 mag have been obtained. All…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Avi Shporer , Tsevi Mazeh

This work presents the first high-precision variability survey in the field of the intermediate-age, metal--rich open cluster NGC 6253. Clusters of this type are benchmarks for stellar evolution models. Continuous photometric monitoring of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Fabrizio De Marchi , Ennio Poretti , Marco Montalto , Silvano Desidera , Giampaolo Piotto

We made a survey of the variable stars in a $13.2 \times 13.2$ arcmin$^2$ centered on the field of the Galactic bulge cluster NGC 6558. A total of 78 variables was found in the field of the cluster. Many of these variables are included in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-02 A. Arellano Ferro , L. J. Zerpa Guillen , M. A. Yepez , I. H. Bustos Fierro , Z. Prudil , C. E. Pérez Parra

We present results of a CCD variability search in the field of the young open cluster NGC 6834. We discover 15 stars to be variable in light. The brightest, a multiperiodic Gamma Doradus-type variable is a foreground star. The eight fainter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-19 M. Jerzykiewicz , G. Kopacki , A. Pigulski , Z. Kołaczkowski , S. -L. Kim

We present the results of a variable stars search in the field of the old open cluster NGC 2204. Five new variables were found, four of them being eclipsing binaries. The sample includes a detached binary located at the turnoff, a W UMa -…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 M. Rozyczka , J. Kaluzny , W. Krzeminski , B. Mazur

We describe the construction of a highly reliable sample of approximately 7,000 optically faint periodic variable stars with light curves obtained by the asteroid survey LINEAR across 10,000 sq.deg of northern sky. Majority of these…

We present the analysis of 26 nights of V and I time-series observations from 2011 and 2012 of the globular cluster M 30 (NGC 7099). We used our data to search for variable stars in this cluster and refine the periods of known variables; we…

Deep B,V time-series photometry obtained with the ESO Very Large Telescope has been used to identify variable stars in the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 6822. We surveyed a 6.8x6.8 arcmin area of the galaxy and detected a total number of 390…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Baldacci , L. Rizzi , G. Clementini , E. V. Held

We report the results of a time-series CCD photometric survey of variable stars in the field of the open cluster NGC 2126. In about one square degree field covering the cluster, a total number of 21 variable candidates are detected during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Shun-Fang Liu , Zhen-Yu Wu , Xiao-Bin Zhang , Jiang-Hua Wu , Jun Ma , Zhao-Ji Jiang , Jian-Sheng Chen , Xu Zhou

We report time-series photometry for 16 variable stars located in the central part of the globular cluster NGC 6752. The sample includes 13 newly identified objects. The precision of our differential photometry ranges from 1 mmag at V=14.0…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Janusz Kaluzny , Ian B. Thompson

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

We present VI-band photometry for stars in the metal-rich globular cluster NGC 6496. Our time-series data were cadenced to search for long period variables (LPVs) over a span of nearly two years, and our variability search yielded the…

We present high precision CCD photometry of 1791 objects in 20 open clusters with an age from 10 Myr to 1 Gyr. These observations were performed within the Delta a photometric system which is primarily used to detect chemically peculiar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Paunzen , K. Zwintz , H. M. Maitzen , O. I. Pintado , M. Rode-Paunzen

We report CCD $V$ and $I$ time-series photometry of the globular cluster NGC 6333 (M9). The technique of difference image analysis has been used, which enables photometric precision better than 0.05 mag for stars brighter than $V \sim 19.0$…

We present photometric light curves for a sample of 21 ultra cool M and L dwarfs in the field and in the young open clusters sigma Orionis and the Pleiades. Evidence for variability with RMS amplitudes (in the I band) of 0.01 to 0.055…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-23 C. A. L. Bailer-Jones , R. Mundt

During its 2-year Prime Mission, TESS observed over 232,000 stars at a 2-min cadence across ~70% of the sky. These data provide a record of photometric variability across a range of astrophysically interesting time scales, probing stellar…