- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/515/A100
- Title:
- VI light curves of NGC 1039 solar-type stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/515/A100
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Employing photometric rotation periods for solar-type stars in NGC 1039 [M 34], a young, nearby open cluster, we use its mass-dependent rotation period distribution to derive the cluster's age in a distance independent way, i.e., the so-called gyrochronology method. We present an analysis of 55 new rotation periods, using light curves derived from differential photometry, for solar type stars in the open cluster NGC 1039 [M 34]. We also exploit the results of a recently-completed, standardized, homogeneous BVIc CCD survey of the cluster, performed by the Indiana Group of the WIYN open cluster survey, in order to establish photometric cluster membership and assign B-V colours to each photometric variable. We describe a methodology for establishing the gyrochronology age for an ensemble of solar-type stars. Empirical relations between rotation period, photometric colour and stellar age (gyrochronology) are used to determine the age of M 34.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/434/1220
- Title:
- Vi light curves of NGC6333 variables
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/434/1220
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- 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 0.05mag for stars brighter than V~19.0mag, even in the crowded central regions of the cluster. The high photometric precision has resulted in the discovery of two new RRc stars, three eclipsing binaries, seven long-term variables and one field RRab star behind the cluster. A detailed identification chart and equatorial coordinates are given for all the variable stars in the field of our images of the cluster. Our data together with the literature V-data obtained in 1994 and 1995 allowed us to refine considerably the periods for all RR Lyrae stars. The nature of the new variables is discussed. We argue that variable V12 is a cluster member and an Anomalous Cepheid. Secular period variations, double-mode pulsations and/or the Blazhko-like modulations in some RRc variables are addressed. Through the light-curve Fourier decomposition of 12 RR Lyrae stars we have calculated a mean metallicity of [Fe/H]_ZW_=-1.70+/-0.01(statistical)+/-0.14(systematic) or [Fe/H]_UVES_=-1.67+/-0.01(statistical)+/-0.19(systematic). Absolute magnitudes, radii and masses are also estimated for the RR Lyrae stars. A detailed search for SX Phe stars in the Blue Straggler region was conducted but none were discovered. If SX Phe exist in the cluster then their amplitudes must be smaller than the detection limit of our photometry. The colour-magnitude diagram has been corrected for heavy differential reddening using the detailed extinction map of the cluster of Alonso-Garcia et al. (2012, Cat. J/AJ/143/70). This has allowed us to set the mean cluster distance from two independent estimates; from the RRab and RRc absolute magnitudes, we find 8.04+/-0.19 and 7.88+/-0.30kpc, respectively.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/578/A128
- Title:
- VI light curves of NGC4590 variables
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/578/A128
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We analyse 20 nights of CCD observations in the V and I bands of the globular cluster M68 (NGC 4590), using these to detect variable objects. We also obtained electron-multiplying CCD (EMCCD) observations for this cluster in order to explore its core with unprecedented spatial resolution from the ground. We reduced our data using difference image analysis, in order to achieve the best possible photometry in the crowded field of the cluster. In doing so, we showed that when dealing with identical networked telescopes, a reference image from any telescope may be used to reduce data from any other telescope, which facilitates the analysis significantly. We then used our light curves to estimate the properties of the RR Lyrae (RRL) stars in M68 through Fourier decomposition and empirical relations. The variable star properties then allowed us to derive the cluster's metallicity and distance. M68 had 45 previously confirmed variables, including 42 RRL and 2 SX Phoenicis (SX Phe) stars. In this paper we determine new periods, and search for new variables, especially in the core of the cluster where our method performs particularly well. We detect an additional 4 SX Phe stars, and confirm the variability of another star, bringing the total number of confirmed variable stars in this cluster to 50. We also used archival data stretching back to 1951 in order to derive period changes for some of the single-mode RRL stars, and analyse the significant number of double-mode RRL stars in M68. Furthermore, we find evidence for double-mode pulsation in one of the SX Phe stars in this cluster. Using the different classes of variables, we derived values for the metallicity of the cluster of [Fe/H]=-2.07+/-0.06 on the ZW scale, or -2.20+/-0.10 on the UVES scale, and found true distance moduli 15.00 +/- 0.11 mag (using RR0 stars), 15.00+/-0.05mag (using RR1 stars), 14.97+/-0.11mag (using SX Phe stars), and 15.00+/-0.07mag (using the M_V_-[Fe/H] relation for RRL stars), corresponding to physical distances of 10.00+/-0.49, 9.99+/-0.21, 9.84+/-0.50 and 10.00+/-0.30kpc, respectively. Thanks to the first use of difference image analysis on time-series observations of M68, we are now confident that we have a complete census of the RRL stars in this cluster.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/765/71
- Title:
- VI light curves of RRL stars in M31
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/765/71
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first evidence that Oosterhoff type II globular clusters exist in the Andromeda galaxy (M31). On the basis of time-series photometry of the moderately metal-poor ([Fe/H]~-1.6dex) M31 globular cluster G11, obtained with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope, we detected and derived periods for 14 RR Lyrae stars, of which five are found to lie inside the cluster tidal radius. They include three fundamental-mode (RRab) and two first-overtone (RRc) pulsators, with average periods <P_ab_>=0.70 days, and <P_c_>=0.40 days, respectively. These mean periods and the position of the cluster variable stars in the period-amplitude and period-metallicity diagrams all suggest that G11 is likely to be an Oosterhoff type II globular cluster. This appears to be in agreement with the general behavior of Milky Way globular clusters with similar metallicity and horizontal branch morphology.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/126/2954
- Title:
- VI light curves of Sand 986 in M67
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/126/2954
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have discovered that the star S986 in the old open cluster M67 has detectable total eclipses of depth 0.08mag for the primary eclipse and 0.011mag for the secondary eclipse (in I only). We confirm the detection of a third star in spectra contributing (11.5+/-1.5)% of the total light in V band. The radial velocity of the third star indicates that it is a cluster member, but it is unclear whether it is physically associated with the eclipsing binary.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/398/541
- Title:
- VI light-curves of the variable stars in M13
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/398/541
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- VI light-curves of variable stars in the globular cluster M13 are presented. They are based on the CCD observations carried out at the Bialkow station of the Wroclaw University Observatory using 60-cm reflecting telescope and the CCD camera. A 6x4 arcmin-squared field of view covering the core of the cluster was observed through V and I_C filters of the Johnson-Kron-Cousins UBV(RI)_C system. About 300 frames in both filters were taken during 23 nights between 2001 February 27 and August 1. The CCD images were analyzed with the DAOPHOT profile-fitting software and Image Subtraction Method. The main result of this study is discovery of five RR Lyrae and one SX Poenicis stars. Moreover we detect non-radial pulsations in RRc star v36. We also comment the variability of all observed suspected variable stars in M13.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/369/862
- Title:
- VI light curves of the variable stars in M92
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/369/862
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Results of a search for variable stars in the central region of the Oosterhoff II type globular cluster M 92 are presented. Out of the 28 variable and suspected variable stars listed in the Catalogue of Variable Stars in Globular Clusters (Clement, 1997, Cat. <V/97>) only two were not observed. Surprisingly, almost half of the observed suspected variables did not show any evidence of variability. Only one out of the 11 candidate RR Lyrae variables of Kadla et al. (1983PZ.....21..827K) appeared to be variable. Moreover, variable V7, until now classified as an RR Lyrae star with a period of about 0.515d, turned out to be of the BL Herculis type, with the period approximately twice that long. In addition, six new variables were found in the very core of the cluster: four of the RR Lyrae and the remaining two of the SX Phoenicis type. RRc variable V11 shows changes in the light curve shape. Due to the aliasing problems, however, we can state only that this star is biperiodic. There is a possibility that V11 belongs to the new group of recently discovered double-period RRc variables pulsating in non-radial mode. Altogether, light curves were obtained for 20 variable stars. The total number of known RR Lyrae stars in M92 equals now 17, 11 of type RRab and the remaining 6, RRc. The CCD observations presented here were carried out at the Bialkow station of the Wroclaw University Observatory with the same equipment as that described by Kopacki & Pigulski (1995AcA....45..753K). Two 6x4arcmin^2^ fields of view, one centred approximately on the core of M92 and the other shifted about 2.5arcmin north and 2.6arcmin east, were observed through V and I_c_ filters of the Johnson-Kron-Cousins UBV(RI)_c_ system. The observations were carried out in two seasons: on 9 nights between 1998 July 20 and September 1, and on 17 nights between 2000 May 4 and June 20. During the 1998 season only a few frames of the second field were taken. The main field, centred on the core of the cluster, was observed during both seasons.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AcA/63/429
- Title:
- VI light curves of 10 variables in NGC288
- Short Name:
- J/AcA/63/429
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A search for variable stars in the globular cluster NGC 288 was carried out using a time-series of CCD images in the V and I filters. The photometry of all stellar sources in the field of view of our images, down to V~19mag, was performed using difference image analysis (DIA). For stars of~15mag, measurement accuracies of ~8mmag and ~10mmag were achieved for V and I respectively. Three independent search strategies were applied to the 5525 light curves but no new variables were found above the threshold limits characteristic of our data set. The use of older data from the literature combined with the present data allowed the refinement of the periods of all known variables. Fourier light curve decomposition was performed for the RRab and the RRc stars to obtain an estimate of [Fe/H]_ZW_=-1.62+/-0.02 (statistical) +/-0.14 (systematic). A true distance modulus of 14.768+/-0.003mag (statistical) +/-0.042mag (systematic), or a distance of 8.99+/-0.01kpc (statistical) +/-0.17kpc (systematic) was calculated from the RRab star. The RRc star predicts a discrepant distance about one kiloparsec shorter but it is possibly a Blazhko variable. An independent distance from the P-L relationship for SX Phe stars leads to a distance of 8.9+/-0.3kpc. The SX Phe stars V5 and V9 are found to be double mode pulsators.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/550/A93
- Title:
- VI light curves of V383 Sco
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/550/A93
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The system V383 Sco was discovered to be an eclipsing binary star at the beginning of the twentieth century. This system has one of the longest orbital periods known (13.5yr) and was initially classified as a zeta Aur-type eclipsing variable. It was then forgotten about for decades, with no progress made in understanding it. This study provides a detailed look at the system V383 Sco, using new data obtained before, during and after the last eclipse, which occurred in 2007/8. There was a suspicion that this system could be similar to eclipsing systems with extensive dusty disks like EE Cep and epsilon Aur. This and other, alternative hypotheses are considered here. The All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS-3) V and I light curves have been used to examine apparent magnitude and colour changes. Low- and high- resolution spectra have been obtained and used for spectral classification, to analyse spectral line profiles, as well as to determine the reddening, radial velocities and the distance to the system. The spectral energy distribution (SED) was analysed using all available photometric and spectroscopic data. Using our own original numerical code, we performed a very simplified model of the eclipse, taking into account the pulsations of one of the components. The low-resolution spectrum shows apparent traces of molecular bands, characteristic of an M-type supergiant. The presence of this star in the system is confirmed by the SED, by a strong dependence of the eclipse depth on the photometric bands, and by the nature of pulsational changes. The presence of a very low excitation nebula around the system has been inferred from [OI] 6300{AA} emission in the high-resolution spectrum. Analysis of the radial velocities, reddening, and period-luminosity relation for Mira-type stars imply a distance to the V383 Sco system of 8.4+/-0.6kpc. The distance to the nearby V381 Sco is 6.4+/-0.8kpc. The very different and oppositely directed radial velocities of these two systems (89.8km/s vs -178.8km/s) seem to be in agreement with a bulge/bar kinematic model of the Galactic centre and inconsistent with purely circular motion. Conclusions. We have found strong evidence for the presence of a pulsating M-type supergiant in the V383 Sco system. This supergiant periodically obscures the much more luminous F0 I-type star, causing the deep (possibly total) eclipses which vary in duration and shape.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/BaltA/14/1
- Title:
- Vilnius photometry in a Cam area
- Short Name:
- J/BaltA/14/1
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The paper gives the results of seven-color CCD photometry in the Vilnius system of 1376 stars down to 15.5mag in the area of the Galactic equator (l=146{deg}, b=+2.6{deg}) in Camelopardalis. Photometric spectral and luminosity classes, interstellar extinctions and distances of the stars are determined.
