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621. NIR photometry of 77 RR Lyrae stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/154/263
Title:
NIR photometry of 77 RR Lyrae stars
Short Name:
J/AJ/154/263
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We have obtained single-phase near-infrared (NIR) magnitudes in the J and K bands for 77 RR Lyrae (RRL) stars in the Fornax Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy. We have used different theoretical and empirical NIR period-luminosity-metallicity calibrations for RRL stars to derive their absolute magnitudes, and found a true, reddening-corrected distance modulus of 20.818+/-0.015(statistical)+/-0.116(systematic) mag. This value is in excellent agreement with the results obtained within the Araucaria Project from the NIR photometry of red clump stars (20.858+/-0.013 mag), the tip of the red giant branch (20.84+/-0.04+/-0.14 mag), as well as with other independent distance determinations to this galaxy. The effect of metallicity and reddening is substantially reduced in the NIR domain, making this method a robust tool for accurate distance determination at the 5% level. This precision is expected to reach the level of 3% once the zero points of distance calibrations are refined thanks to the Gaia mission. NIR period-luminosity-metallicity relations of RRL stars are particularly useful for distance determinations to galaxies and globular clusters up to 300 kpc, that lack young standard candles, like Cepheids.
622. NIR photometry variability in {rho} Oph
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/211/3
Title:
NIR photometry variability in {rho} Oph
Short Name:
J/ApJS/211/3
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Presented are the results of a near-IR photometric survey of 1678 stars in the direction of the {rho} Ophiuchus ({rho} Oph) star forming region using data from the 2MASS Calibration Database. For each target in this sample, up to 1584 individual J-, H-, and Ks-band photometric measurements with a cadence of ~1 day are obtained over three observing seasons spanning ~2.5 yr; it is the most intensive survey of stars in this region to date. This survey identifies 101 variable stars with {Delta}Ks-band amplitudes from 0.044 to 2.31 mag and {Delta}(J-Ks) color amplitudes ranging from 0.053 to 1.47 mag. Of the 72 young {rho} Oph star cluster members included in this survey, 79% are variable; in addition, 22 variable stars are identified as candidate members. Based on the temporal behavior of the Ks time-series, the variability is distinguished as either periodic, long time-scale or irregular. This temporal behavior coupled with the behavior of stellar colors is used to assign a dominant variability mechanism. A new period-searching algorithm finds periodic signals in 32 variable stars with periods between 0.49 to 92 days. The chief mechanism driving the periodic variability for 18 stars is rotational modulation of cool starspots while 3 periodically vary due to accretion-induced hot spots. The time-series for six variable stars contains discrete periodic "eclipse-like" features with periods ranging from 3 to 8 days. These features may be asymmetries in the circumstellar disk, potentially sustained or driven by a proto-planet at or near the co-rotation radius. Aperiodic, long time-scale variations in stellar flux are identified in the time-series for 31 variable stars with time-scales ranging from 64 to 790 days. The chief mechanism driving long time-scale variability is variable extinction or mass accretion rates. The majority of the variable stars (40) exhibit sporadic, aperiodic variability over no discernable time-scale. No chief variability mechanism could be identified for these variable stars.
623. Northern Sky Variability Survey (NSVS)
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/287
Title:
Northern Sky Variability Survey (NSVS)
Short Name:
II/287
Date:
23 Nov 2021 00:31:33
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The Northern Sky Variability Survey (NSVS) is a temporal record of the sky over the optical magnitude range from 8 to 15.5. It was conducted in the course of the first-generation Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE-I) using a robotic system of four comounted unfiltered telephoto lenses equipped with CCD cameras. The survey was conducted from Los Alamos, New Mexico, and primarily covers the entire northern sky. Some data in southern fields between declinations 0{deg} and -38{deg} are also available, although with fewer epochs and noticeably lesser quality. The NSVS contains light curves for approximately 14 million objects. With a 1-yr baseline and typically 100-500 measurements per object, the NSVS is the most extensive record of stellar variability across the bright sky available today. In a median field, bright unsaturated stars attain a point-to-point photometric scatter of ~0.02mag and position errors within 2. At Galactic latitudes |b|<20{deg}, the data quality is limited by severe blending due to the ~14" pixel size. We present basic characteristics of the data set and describe data collection, analysis, and distribution. All NSVS photometric measurements are available for on-line public access from the Sky Database for Objects in Time-Domain (SkyDOT) at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Copies of the full survey photometry may also be requested on tape.
624. NSVS variables automated classification
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/138/466
Title:
NSVS variables automated classification
Short Name:
J/AJ/138/466
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We have identified 4659 variable objects in the Northern Sky Variability Survey. We have classified each of these objects into one of the five variable star classes: (1) Algol/alpha Lyr systems including semidetached, and detached eclipsing binaries, (2) W Ursae Majoris overcontact and ellipsoidal variables, (3) long-period variables such as Cepheid and Mira-type objects, (4) RR Lyr pulsating variables, and (5) short-period variables including delta Scuti stars. All the candidates have outside of eclipse magnitudes of ~10-13.
625. Observations of RR Lyr stars in M5
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/411/1744
Title:
Observations of RR Lyr stars in M5
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/411/1744
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The period changes of 86 M5 RR Lyrae stars have been investigated on a 100-yr time base. The published observations have been supplemented by archival Asiago, Konkoly and Las Campanas photographic observations obtained between 1952 and 1993.
626. Observations of variable stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/OEJV/120
Title:
Observations of variable stars
Short Name:
J/other/OEJV/120
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
This 64th compilation contains the results of visual and photographic observations of BAV-members from the years 2088 and 2009. Here we publish altogether 193 minima and maxima of 130 eclipsing binaries and pulsating stars. The data were acquiered by 13 observers.
627. Observations of variable stars in M9
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/101/1352
Title:
Observations of variable stars in M9
Short Name:
J/AJ/101/1352
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Observations of RR Lyrae variables near the transition between fundamental and first-overtone mode in the Oosterhoff type II (Oo II) globular clusters M80, M9, and NGC 2298 have been analyzed in a search for double-mode pulsators (RRd stars). These three clusters were selected because they have metal abundances that are intermediate between those of the Oo II clusters and the Oo I clusters that are known to have RRd stars. Any RRd stars identified in these three clusters would be useful for verification of a mass-metallicity relation. The analysis was based on published observations for all three clusters, and in addition, 44 CCD frames of M9 and 32 photographs of NGC 2298, all obtained with the University of Toronto telescope at Las Campanas. No new RRd stars were discovered. It is noted that the only globular clusters known to have RRd stars are the most metal poor Oo I clusters and metal poor Oo II clusters. Published observations of the RRd stars in M15 have been analyzed in order to determine accurate periods and period ratios for stars whose periods were previously considered to be uncertain.
628. Observed Periods of Ap and Bp stars
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/III/199A
Title:
Observed Periods of Ap and Bp stars
Short Name:
III/199A
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
A catalogue of all the periods published up to 31 October 1996 on 364 CP stars is presented; it supersedes the previous version (catalog <III/152>). The paper version (catalog.tex) is arranged in three tables: the bulk of the data, i.e. those referring to CP2, CP3, and CP4 stars, are given in Table 1, while the data concerning He-strong stars are given in Table 2 and those for eclipsing or ellipsoidal variables are collected in Table 3. Notes are also provided at the end of each table, mainly about duplicities. The machine-readable version was arranged in two main parts: the main parameters of the 364 stars (identifiers and names, positions, spectral types, magnitudes and peculiarities) are tabulated in the file 'stars'; periods and the of the observed variations (light, spectrum, magnetic field, etc.) are listed in the 'periods' file. Two other files contains the notes and the references.
629. OGLE Bulge short-period sample
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/504/5907
Title:
OGLE Bulge short-period sample
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/504/5907
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
This is the third of a series of papers that presents an algorithm to search for close binaries with massive, possibly compact, unseen secondaries. The detection of such a binary is based on identifying a star that displays a large ellipsoidal periodic modulation, induced by tidal interaction with its companion. In the second paper of the series, we presented a simple approach to derive a robust modified minimum mass ratio (mMMR), based on the observed ellipsoidal amplitude, without knowing the primary mass and radius, assuming the primary fills its Roche lobe. The newly defined mMMR is always smaller than the actual mass ratio. Therefore, a binary with an mMMR larger than unity is a good candidate for having a massive secondary, which might be a black hole or a neutron star. This paper considers 10956 OGLE short-period ellipsoidals observed towards the Galactic bulge. We re-analyse their modulation and identify 136 main-sequence systems with mMMR significantly larger than unity as candidates for having compact-object secondaries, assuming their observed periodic modulations reflect indeed the ellipsoidal effect. Obviously, one needs follow-up observations to find out the true nature of these companions.
630. OGLE DIA. Catalog of LMC and SMC images
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/51/317
Title:
OGLE DIA. Catalog of LMC and SMC images
Short Name:
J/AcA/51/317
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the first edition of a catalog of variable stars found in the Magellanic Clouds using OGLE-II data obtained during four years: 1997-2000. The catalog covers about 7 square degrees of the sky - 21 fields in the Large Magellanic Cloud and 11 fields in the Small Magellanic Cloud. All variables were found with the Difference Image Analysis (DIA) software. The catalog is divided into two sections. The DC section contains FITS reference images (obtained by co-adding 20 best frames for each field) and profile photometry (DOPHOT) of all variable stars on those images. The AC section contains flux variations and magnitudes of detected variable stars obtained with DIA as well as with DOPHOT. The errors of magnitude measurements are 0.005mag for the brightest stars (I<16mag) then grow to 0.08mag at 19mag stars and to 0.3mag at 20.5mag. Typically, there are about 400 I-band data points and about 30 V and B-band data points for more than 68 000 variables. The stars with high proper motions were excluded from this catalog and will be presented in a separate paper. A detailed analysis and classification of variable stars will be presented elsewhere. The catalog is available in electronic form via FTP and through WWW interface from the OGLE Internet archive. The FTP catalog contains approximately 2 GB of data.