- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/859/140
- Title:
- Multi-band magnitudes for W UMa EB* candidates
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/859/140
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- W Ursa Majoris (W UMa)-type contact binary systems (CBs) are useful statistical distance indicators because of their large numbers. Here, we establish (orbital) period-luminosity relations (PLRs) in 12 optical to mid-infrared bands (GBVRIJHKsW1W2W3W4) based on 183 nearby W UMa-type CBs with accurate Tycho-Gaia parallaxes. The 1{sigma} dispersion of the PLRs decreases from optical to near- and mid-infrared wavelengths. The minimum scatter, 0.16mag, implies that W UMa-type CBs can be used to recover distances to 7% precision. Applying our newly determined PLRs to 19 open clusters containing W UMa-type CBs demonstrates that the PLR and open cluster CB distance scales are mutually consistent to within 1%. Adopting our PLRs as secondary distance indicators, we compiled a catalog of 55603 CB candidates, of which 80% have distance estimates based on a combination of optical, near-infrared, and mid- infrared photometry. Using Fourier decomposition, 27318 high-probability W UMa-type CBs were selected. The resulting 8% distance accuracy implies that our sample encompasses the largest number of objects with accurate distances within a local volume with a radius of 3kpc available to date. The distribution of W UMa-type CBs in the Galaxy suggests that in different environments, the CB luminosity function may be different: larger numbers of brighter (longer-period) W UMa-type CBs are found in younger environments.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/122/144
- Title:
- Multiband photometry of V725 Sgr
- Short Name:
- J/PASP/122/144
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- V725 Sgr is a rather peculiar variable that showed a period increase during part of the twentieth century. Its behavior is attributed to rapid stellar evolution. V725 Sgr was monitored in V, R, I and J, H, K with the REM telescope, on La Silla, from 2008 August to 2009 November. Its light variation does not show a well-defined cyclic behavior. Its current V is similar to what it was 30-40yrs ago. Its published motion suggests that V725 Sgr is located at a few kiloparsecs from the Sun. This implies that V725 Sgr is a giant rather than a supergiant star. From its mean colors we conclude that V725 Sgr is now an irregular variable of spectral type ~K4 III.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/154/231
- Title:
- Multi-epoch multi-band photometry of B1-392
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/154/231
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Ongoing and future surveys with repeat imaging in multiple bands are producing (or will produce) time-spaced measurements of brightness, resulting in the identification of large numbers of variable sources in the sky. A large fraction of these are periodic variables: compilations of these are of scientific interest for a variety of purposes. Unavoidably, the data sets from many such surveys not only have sparse sampling, but also have embedded frequencies in the observing cadence that beat against the natural periodicities of any object under investigation. Such limitations can make period determination ambiguous and uncertain. For multiband data sets with asynchronous measurements in multiple passbands, we wish to maximally use the information on periodicity in a manner that is agnostic of differences in the light-curve shapes across the different channels. Given large volumes of data, computational efficiency is also at a premium. This paper develops and presents a computationally economic method for determining periodicity that combines the results from two different classes of period-determination algorithms. The underlying principles are illustrated through examples. The effectiveness of this approach for combining asynchronously sampled measurements in multiple observables that share an underlying fundamental frequency is also demonstrated.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/377/1263
- Title:
- Multiperiodic RR Lyrae in ASAS catalog
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/377/1263
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The All Sky Automated Survey (ASAS) monitors bright stars (8<V<14mag) south of declination +28{deg}. The ASAS Catalogue of Variable Stars (ACVS) presently contains 50099 objects; among them are 2212 objects classified as RR Lyrae pulsating variables. We use ASAS photometric V-band data to search for multiperiodicity in those stars. We find that 73 of 1435 RRab stars and 49 of 756 RRc stars exhibit the Blazhko effect. We observe a deficiency of RRab Blazhko variables with main pulsation periods greater than 0.65d. The Blazhko periods of RRc stars exhibit a strongly bimodal distribution. During our study we discovered the Blazhko effect with multiple periods in object ASAS 0507473351.9 = SU Col. Blazhko periods of 89.3 and 65.8d and a candidate of 29.5d were identified with periodogram peaks near the first three harmonics of the main pulsation. These observations may inspire new models of the Blazhko effect, which has eluded a consistent theory since its discovery about one hundred years ago. Long-term light curve changes were found in 29 stars. We also found 19 Galactic double mode pulsators (RRd), of which four are new discoveries, raising the number of ASAS discoveries of such objects to 16, out of 27 known in the field of our Galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/131/2986
- Title:
- Multiplicity of contact binaries
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/131/2986
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have attempted to establish observational evidence for the presence of distant companions that may have acquired and/or absorbed angular momentum during the evolution of multiple systems, thus facilitating or enabling the formation of contact binaries. In this preliminary investigation we use several techniques (some of them distance- independent) and mostly disregard the detection biases of individual techniques in an attempt to establish a lower limit to the frequency of triple systems. While the whole sample of 151 contact binary stars brighter than V_max_=10mag gives a firm lower limit of 42%{+/-}5%, the corresponding number for the much better observed northern-sky subsample is 59%{+/-}8%. These estimates indicate that most contact binary stars exist in multiple systems.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/156/148
- Title:
- Multiwavelength photometry of RCB stars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/156/148
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The study of extended, cold dust envelopes surrounding R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars began with their discovery by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite. RCB stars are carbon-rich supergiants characterized by their extreme hydrogen deficiency and their irregular and spectacular declines in brightness (up to 9 mag). We have analyzed new and archival Spitzer Space Telescope and Herschel Space Observatory data of the envelopes of seven RCB stars to examine the morphology and investigate the origin of these dusty shells. Herschel, in particular, has revealed the first-ever bow shock associated with an RCB star with its observations of SU Tauri. These data have allowed the assembly of the most comprehensive spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of these stars with multiwavelength data from the ultraviolet to the submillimeter. Radiative transfer modeling of the SEDs implies that the RCB stars in this sample are surrounded by an inner warm (up to 1200 K) and an outer cold (up to 200 K) envelope. The outer shells are suggested to contain up to 10^-3^ M_{sun}_ of dust and have existed for up to 10^5^ years depending on the expansion rate of the dust. This age limit indicates that these structures have most likely been formed during the RCB phase.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/POBol/9.3
- Title:
- 12 M92 variables Photographic observations
- Short Name:
- J/other/POBol/9.
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The periods and the light curves of 12 variable stars of the globular cluster M92 have been studied analyzing 176 plates obtained with the 60 cm reflector of Bologna Observatory from 1964 to 1966. Combining the results of the present observations with Hachenberg's (1925, 1933, 1934) and Nassau's (1936), the periods were improved and the O-C diagrams for 9 variables were traced. A parabola well represents the residuals of the variables No. 3, 8 and 11. Variable 9 is likely not strictly periodic.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/331
- Title:
- M68 variable star light curves
- Short Name:
- II/331
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- 110 plates of the globular cluster M68, taken during 1951 to 1953 with the 24-inch reflector of the station of Lojano, have been the subject of a photometric investigation.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/107/622
- Title:
- M68 variable star light curves
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/107/622
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- 20 CCD images of the globular cluster M68, taken during 14th - 17th April 1989 with the 1.5m Danish telescope in La Silla, have been the subject of a photometric investigation.
800. M37 variable stars
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/675/1254
- Title:
- M37 variable stars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/675/1254
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have conducted a deep (15~<r~<23 ), 20 night survey for transiting planets in the intermediate-age (~550Myr) open cluster M37 (NGC 2099) using the Megacam wide-field mosaic CCD camera on the 6.5m MMT. In this paper we present a catalog and light curves for 1445 variable stars; 1430 (99%) of these are new discoveries. We have discovered 20 new eclipsing binaries and 31 new short-period (P<1day) pulsating stars. The bulk of the variables are most likely rapidly rotating young low-mass stars, including a substantial number (>~500) that are members of the cluster. We identify and analyze five particularly interesting individual variables, including a previously identified variable that we suggest is probably a hybrid gamma Doradus/delta Scuti pulsator, two possible quiescent cataclysmic variables, a detached eclipsing binary (DEB) with at least one gamma Doradus pulsating component (only the second such variable found in an eclipsing binary), and a low-mass (M_P_~M_S~0.6M_{sun}_ DEB that is a possible cluster member. A preliminary determination of the physical parameters for the DEB+gamma Doradus system yields M_P_=1.58+/-0.04M_{sun}_, M_S_=1.58+/-0.04M_{sun}_, R_P_=1.39+/-0.07R_{sun}_, and R_S_=1.38+/-0.07R_{sun}_.
