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Time-series CCD photometric observations of the intermediate-age open cluster NGC 2099 were performed to search for variable stars. We also carried out BV photometry to study physical properties of variables in the cluster. Using V-band…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. B. Kang , S. -L. Kim , S. -C. Rey , C. -U. Lee , Y. H. Kim , J. -R. Koo , Y. -B. Jeon

This paper presents the first optical variability study of the Westerlund 1 super star cluster in search of massive eclipsing binary systems. A total of 129 new variable stars have been identified, including the discovery of 4 eclipsing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alceste Z. Bonanos

We have carried out a major survey for visual binaries towards the Orion Nebula Cluster using HST images obtained with an H-alpha filter. Among 781 likely ONC members more than 60" from theta-1 Ori C, we find 78 multiple systems (75…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Bo Reipurth , Marcelo M. Guimarães , Michael S. Connelley , John Bally

Omega Centauri ($\omega$ Cen) is one of the most complex star clusters in the Milky Way, and likely the stripped nucleus of an accreted dwarf galaxy. Being the subject of debate between it hosting an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) or a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-26 S. Saracino , S. Kamann , F. Wragg , S. Dreizler , K. Kremer , M. Latour , J. Müller-Horn , N. Neumayer , A. C. Seth , G. van de Ven , M. Häberle

Based on over 3000 BV images of M4 collected in years 1995-2009 we obtain light curves of 22 variables, 10 of which are newly detected objects. We identify four detached eclipsing binaries and eight contact binaries. Accurate periods are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-15 J. Kaluzny , I. B. Thompson , M. Rozyczka , W. Krzeminski

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 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…

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

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 the first results of our variability survey for the globular cluster NGC 362. We found numerous variable stars in the field including 23 RR Lyr stars, 4 eclipsing binaries and 5 other pulsating stars. Four of the RR Lyr ae stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 P. Székely , L. L. Kiss , B. Csák , A. Derekas , T. R. Bedding , K. Szatmáry

New accurate and homogeneous optical UBVRI photometry has been obtained for variable stars in the Galactic globular $\omega$ Cen (NGC 5139). We secured 8202 CCD images covering a time interval of 24 years and a sky area of 84x48 arcmin. The…

Using light curves with $\sim$3 min cadence and a duration of 2 hrs made using the OmegaWhite survey, we present the results of a search for short-period variable stars in the field of 20 open clusters. We identified 92 variable stars in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 R. Toma , G. Ramsay , C. S. Jeffery , S. A. Macfarlane , P. Woudt , P. J. Groot

In this work, we studied the variable stars in the open cluster NGC 1912 based on the photometric observations and $Gaia$ DR2 data. More than 3600 CCD frames in B, V, R filters were reduced, and we obtained the light curves that span about…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-11 Chunyan Li , Ali Esamdin , Yu Zhang , Fangfang Song , Xiangyun Zeng , Li Chen , Hubiao Niu , Jianying Bai , Junhui Liu

ASAS is a long term project to monitor bright variable stars over the whole sky. It has discovered 50,122 variables brighter than V < 14 mag south of declination +28 degrees, and among them 11,099 eclipsing binaries. We present a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Paczynski , D. Szczygiel , B. Pilecki , G. Pojmanski

We present the first CCD variability study of the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy. The data were obtained with the FLWO 1.2 m telescope on 22 nights, over a period of 10 months, covering a 22 x 22 arcmin field centered at RA=17:19:57.5,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Z. Bonanos , K. Z. Stanek , A. H. Szentgyorgyi , D. D. Sasselov , G. A. Bakos

We present the results of a commissioning campaign to observe Galactic globular clusters for the search of microlensing events. The central 10' X 10' region of the globular cluster NGC 5024 was monitored using the 2-m Himalayan Chandra…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Safonova , C. S. Stalin

A rich harvest of RR Lyrae stars has been identified for the first time in B514, a metal-poor ([Fe/H] = 1.95 +/- 0.10 dex) globular cluster of the Andromeda galaxy (M31), based on Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 and…

We present B and V time-series photometry of Andromeda XXV, the third galaxy in our program on the Andromeda's satellites, that we have imaged with the Large Binocular Cameras of the Large Binocular Telescope. The field of Andromeda XXV is…

The image subtraction technique applied to study variable stars in globular clusters represented a leap in the number of new detections, with the drawback that many of these new light curves could not be transformed to magnitudes due to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-24 R. Salinas , R. Contreras Ramos , J. Strader , P. Hakala , M. Catelan , M. Peacock , M. Simunovic

We present the results of a high-cadence photometric survey of an $11'\times11'$ field centred on the globular cluster M71, with the Near-Infrared Transiting ExoplanetS Telescope. The aim of our survey is to search for stellar variability…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. McCormac , I. Skillen , D. Pollacco , F. Faedi , G. Ramsay , V. S. Dhillon , I. Todd , A. Gonzalez