Description
This work presents the first high-precision variability survey in the field of the intermediate-age, metal-rich open cluster NGC 6253. We discovered 595 variables and we also characterized most of them providing their variability classes, periods and amplitudes. The sample is complete at short periods: we classified 20 pulsating variables, 225 contact systems, 99 eclipsing systems (22 Beta Lyr type, 59 Beta Per type, 18 RS CVn type), and 77 rotational variables. The time-baseline hampered the precise characterization of 173 variables with periods longer than 4-5days. Moreover, we found a cataclysmic system undergoing an outburst of about 2.5mag.
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