- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/482/3058
- Title:
- New variable stars towards Galactic Bulge
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/482/3058
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report the detection of 3714 variable stars towards the Galactic bulge, including 2521 previously uncatalogued variables, using time-series photometry extracted from data obtained with the VIMOS imager at the Very Large Telescope. Observations of the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS) field in the Galactic Bulge were taken over 2yr between March and October at a cadence of ~4d, enabling the detection of variables with periods up to ~100d. Many of these were already known, but we detected a significant number of new variables, including 11 Cepheids, a further 88 potential Cepheid candidates, and many contact binaries. Here we publish the catalogue of the new variables, containing coordinates, mean magnitudes as well as periods and classification; full light curves for these variables are also made available electronically.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/478/2676
- Title:
- New white dwarf pulsators for TESS
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/478/2676
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of our survey searching for new white dwarf pulsators for observations by the TESS space telescope. We collected photometric time-series data on 14 white dwarf variable candidates at Konkoly Observatory, and found two new bright ZZ Ceti stars, namely EGGR 120 and WD 1310+583. We performed a Fourier analysis of the datasets. In the case of EGGR 120, which was observed on one night only, we found one significant frequency at 1332uHz with 2.3mmag amplitude. We successfully observed WD 1310+583 on eight nights, and determined 17 significant frequencies in the whole dataset. Seven of them seem to be independent pulsation modes between 634 and 2740uHz, and we performed preliminary asteroseismic investigations of the star utilizing six of these periods. We also identified three new light variables on the fields of white dwarf candidates: an eclipsing binary, a candidate delta Scuti/beta Cephei and a candidate W UMa-type star.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/542/A68
- Title:
- NGC 3231, 7055 and 7127 BVRI photometry
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/542/A68
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Open clusters are often used as tracers for the formation and evolution of the Milky Way. But they can also be used to study distinct "local stellar populations" and all kind of stellar groups. All these studies crucially depend on their unambiguous detection and classification separating them from the fore- and background field population. Still more than one third of the catalogued galactic open clusters are unstudied to date. We have chosen three northern open cluster fields, namely NGC 3231, NGC 7055, and NGC 7127 which have been never studied before to shed more light on their true nature. We present Johnson-Cousins BVRI photometry down to V=19mag. After the transformation to the standard systems, colour-magnitude diagrams were generated. These diagrams were used to fit solar abundant isochrones to determine the distance modulus, reddening and apparent age of the main sequences. From the analysis of the colour-magnitude diagrams and the available proper motions we conclude that NGC 7055 and NGC 7127 are young, real, open clusters. NGC 3231, on the other hand, is probably a high galactic latitude open cluster remnant.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/430/221
- Title:
- NGC 2849 and NGC 6134 UBVI photometry
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/430/221
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present CCD photometry of two southern open clusters. As part of the Bologna Open Cluster Chemical Evolution project we obtained BVI and UBVI imaging for NGC 2849 and NGC 6134, respectively. By means of the synthetic colour-magnitude diagram method and using various evolutionary sets of stellar evolution tracks with various metallicities, we determined at the same time age, distance and reddening. We also determined an approximate metallicity for NGC 2849, for which the information is not available from sounder methods like high-resolution spectroscopy. NGC 2849 turned to be 0.85-1.0Gyr old with a solar metallicity. The foreground reddening is E(B-V)=0.28-0.32, and the true distance modulus (m-M)_0_=13.8-13.9. For NGC 6134 we did not obtain fully consistent answers from the V, B-V and V, V-I photometry, an unexpected problem, since both the metallicity and the reddening are known (from high-resolution spectroscopy and the U-B, B-V two colours diagram, respectively). This may either indicate a difficulty of current models (evolutionary tracks and/or models of atmosphere) to accurately reproduce colours, or be related to differences in the metal mixture assumed by the models and those of the clusters. Assuming the spectroscopic abundance and the colour excess [E(B-V)=0.35] from the U-B, B-V plot, we derived a best age between 0.82 and 0.95Gyr and a distance modulus 10.5.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/351/526
- Title:
- NGC 2172 CCD BVI photometry
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/351/526
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a new CCD photometry for the young LMC cluster NGC 2172, giving B, V, I magnitudes for more than 600 stars within 70" from the cluster center, down to -approximately- V=21mag. After correction for completeness and field stars contamination, we discuss the cluster HR diagram and the MS luminosity function in the light of current evolutionary theories and in connection with the problem of cluster age.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/117/22
- Title:
- NGC 6318 CCD BVI photometry
- Short Name:
- J/PASP/117/22
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present CCD BVI photometry for the southern open cluster NGC 6318. The sample consists of 9876 stars measured in an area of 13.6'x13.6', extending down to V~21.5mag. Star counts carried out within and outside the cluster region allowed us to estimate the cluster angular radius as 8'.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/355/138
- Title:
- NGC 6994 CCD photometry
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/355/138
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- BVRI CCD photometry of 144 stars in the region of NGC 6994: positions, V magnitudes, (B-V), (V-R) and (V-I) colors.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/ApSS/361.126
- Title:
- NGC 6819 CCD UBV photometry
- Short Name:
- J/other/ApSS/361
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of CCD UBV observations of the open cluster NGC 6819. We calculated the stellar density profile in the cluster's field to determine the structural parameters of NGC 6819. Using the existing astrometric data, we calculated the probabilities of the stars being physical members of the cluster, and used these objects in the determination of the astrophysical parameters of NGC 6819. We inferred the reddening and metallicity of the cluster as E(B-V)=0.130+/-0.035mag and [Fe/H]=+0.051+/-0.020dex, respectively, using the U-B vs B-V two-colour diagram and UV excesses of the F-G type main-sequence stars. We fit the colour-magnitude diagrams of NGC 6819 with the PARSEC isochrones and derived the distance modula, distance and age of the cluster as mu_V=12.22+/-0.10mag, d=2309+/-106pc and t=2.4+/-0.2Gyr, respectively. The parameters of the galactic orbit estimated for NGC 6819 indicate that the cluster is orbiting in a slightly eccentric orbit of e=0.06 with a period of P_orb_=142Myr. The slope of the mass function estimated for the cluster is close to the one found for the stars in the solar neighbourhood.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/ApSS/355.267
- Title:
- NGC 6811 CCD UBVRI photometry
- Short Name:
- J/other/ApSS/355
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of CCD UBVRI observations of the open cluster NGC 6811 obtained on 18th July 2012 with the 1m telescope at the TIBITAK National Observatory (TUG). Using these photometric results, we determine the structural and astrophysical parameters of the cluster. The mean photometric uncertainties are better than 0.02 mag in the V magnitude and B-V, V-R, and V-I colour indices to about 0.03mag for U-B among stars brighter than magnitude V=18. Cluster member stars were separated from the field stars using the Galaxia model of Sharma et al. (2011ApJ...730....3S) together with other techniques. The core radius of the cluster is found to be r_c_=3.60arcmin. The astrophysical parameters were determined simultaneously via Bayesian statistics using the colour-magnitude diagrams V versus B-V, V versus V-I, V versus V-R, and V versus R-I of the cluster. The resulting most likely parameters were further confirmed using independent methods, removing any possible degeneracies. The colour excess, distance modulus, metallicity and the age of the cluster are determined simultaneously as E(B-V)=0.05+/-0.01mag, {mu}=10.06+/-0.08mag, [M/H]=-0.10+/-0.01dex and t=1.00+/-0.05Gyr, respectively. Distances of five red clump stars which were found to be members of the cluster further confirm our distance estimation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/110/1318
- Title:
- NGC 7789 CCD VI photometry
- Short Name:
- J/PASP/110/1318
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A V, V-I-diagram for the intermediate-age open cluster NGC 7789 has been derived from CCD observations of more than 15,000 stars within ~18' of the cluster center. From the brightest giants and blue stragglers at V~11 to the faintest lower main-sequence stars that were observed (at V~21, M_V_~9), the color-magnitude diagram is well defined. A prominent clump of core helium-burning stars is evident at V=13.0, and the upper end of the main sequence shows a fairly pronounced curvature to the red, which is indicative of significant convective core overshooting. Indeed, comparisons with up-to-date stellar models show that it is not possible to explain the observed morphology in the vicinity of the turnoff unless the overshooting is quite extensive. Interestingly, if sufficient overshooting is assumed in order to match the main-sequence data, it is not possible to reproduce the cluster's extended giant branch unless the cluster age is at least 1.6 Gyr (assuming a metallicity in the range -0.2<=[FeMH]<=0.0). This, in turn, requires that the cluster have an apparent distance modulus m-M_V_<=12.2. Thus, sometime within the past few hundred million years, the ignition of helium burning in NGC 7789 has switched from a quiescent to an explosive ("flash") phenomenon, and the length of the cluster's red giant branch has been steadily increasing with the passage of time since then. From main-sequence fits to models that have been carefully normalized to the Sun, we infer a reddening 0.35<=E(V-I)<=0.38.
