We report the detection of 388 pulsating variable stars (and some additional miscellaneous variables) in the Carina dwarf spheroidal galaxy over an area covering the full visible extent of the galaxy and extending a few times beyond its photometric (King) tidal radius along the direction of its major axis. Included in this total are 340 newly discovered dwarf Cepheids (DCs), which are mostly located ~2.5mag below the horizontal branch and have very short periods (<0.1days), typical of their class and consistent with their location on the upper part of the extended main sequence of the younger populations of the galaxy. Several extra-tidal DCs were found in our survey up to a distance of ~1{deg} from the center of Carina. Our sample also includes RR Lyrae stars and anomalous Cepheids, some of which were found outside the galaxy's tidal radius as well. This supports past works that suggest that Carina is undergoing tidal disruption. We use the period-luminosity relationship for DCs to estimate a distance modulus of {mu}_0_=20.17+/-0.10mag, in very good agreement with the estimate from RR Lyrae stars. We find some important differences in the properties of the DCs of Carina and those in Fornax and the LMC, the only extragalactic samples of DCs currently known. These differences may reflect a metallicity spread, depth along the line of sight, and/or different evolutionary paths of the DC stars.
Using all data in the literature on multiaperture photometry in B and V bands for 237 galaxies, a list of candidates for galaxies with chemically distinct nuclei is compiled. Twenty-five to 50 percent of galaxies with morphological types from E to Sb are found to be such candidates.
Some of the Galactic outer halo globular clusters are excellent tools to probe gravitational theories in the regime of weak accelerations. The measurement of the line-of-sight velocity dispersion among stars in these clusters will differentiate between the validity of Newtonian dynamics (low velocity dispersion) and the possibility of modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND) or dark matter dominated globular clusters (high velocity dispersion). In this paper, the properties of probable member stars of the three best-case gravitational theory-testing clusters AM 1, Pal 3 and Pal 14 are presented. The member selection is based on VLT photometry in Johnson BV. The positions of the stars were determined with an accuracy of the order of <=0.2", allowing their direct use for follow-up spectroscopy. The distance, reddening, age and metallicities of the clusters were estimated from isochrone fitting. Furthermore, improved structural parameters, like central coordinates, ellipticity, half-light radius, King model core and tidal radius, are presented.
BV photometry of HD 37824, HD 181809, and HD 217188
Short Name:
J/AJ/129/1669
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We have obtained spectroscopy and photometry of three chromospherically active, single-lined spectroscopic binaries: HD 37824 (V1149 Ori), HD 181809 (V4138 Sgr), and HD 217188 (AZ Psc). * HD 37824 has a circular orbit with a period of 53.57 days. Its primary is a K0 III star, while the secondary is likely a G or K dwarf. * HD 181809 has an orbit with a period of 13.04667 days and a low eccentricity of 0.040. The primary has a spectral type of K0 IIIIV, and its secondary is probably an M dwarf. * The orbit of HD 217188 has a period of 47.1209 days and a moderately high eccentricity of 0.470. The spectral type of the primary is K0III, while the secondary is likely an M dwarf. All three systems are estimated to have near solar iron abundances. Photometric observations spanning 15-16 years for all three stars yield mean photometric periods of 53.12, 59.85, and 90.89 days for HD 37824, HD 181809, and HD 217188, respectively.
The tables shows the photometry and colour index for the observed galaxy, with the image parameter SHAR. This parameter is a measure of the difference between the observed width of the object and the psf model.
The field of the moderately old open cluster LW 55 in the outer parts of the Large Magellanic Cloud disk was monitored for detection of short-period variable stars over two nights. Eight variables were found; all but one (a detached eclipsing binary) are small-amplitude ({Delta}V<=0.1mag) pulsating stars of the {delta} Scuti, SX Phoenicis, or Doradus type. The BV color-magnitude diagram extends down to the solar-type stars at V=24 (M_V_~5.2). The cluster age is estimated at 1.5Gyr for Z=0.004 ([Fe/H]=-0.67); the surrounding stellar field is older, with an age greater than 4Gyr.
File table2 contains coordinates (J2000) and B,V magnitudes and B-V colours with corresponding errors of 4450 stars in a 20'x20' region centered on the globular cluster M 71 (NGC 6838). The limiting magnitude of the catalogue is about V=18.0 The observations were made in 1995 at Calar Alta Observatory.
The first large-format CCD color-magnitude diagram (CMD) in the B and V passbands is presented for the Galactic globular cluster M53 (NGC 5024). The observations consist of 40 pairs of B and V CCD frames with FWHM<1.2" in a pattern covering a 12'x13' region of M53. These frames were used to produce color-magnitude data for more than 20,000 stars from the tip of the red giant branch (RGB) to about 2 mag below the main-sequence turnoff (V~22). The CMD reveals a classic example of a metal-poor stellar system, with the horizontal branch (HB) predominantly blueward of the RR Lyrae instability strip and the relatively steep RGB. The blue HB of M53 does not show the blue tail phenomenon that is observed in M15. The relative age dating based on the color difference between the turnoff and the base of RGB reveals no significant age difference ({Delta}t<1Gyr) between M53 and M92. We have discovered 114 new blue straggler stars (BSSs) in the field of M53. The analysis of bright (V<19.39) BSSs clearly shows a bimodal radial distribution with a high frequency in the inner and outer regions but a distinct dip in the intermediate region. The distribution is similar to that found in M3, a globular cluster with a similar central density and concentration.
Broad band photometry (in Johnson B and V) has been obtained in a region (34'x34') at the North-Eastern quadrant of M31 over 5 years (1999-2003) at the Isaac Newton Telescope (La Palma, Spain). The data, containing more than 250 observations per filter, have been reduced by means of the so-called difference image analysis technique and the DAOPHOT program. A catalog with 236238 objects with photometry in both B and V passbands has been obtained. The catalog is the deepest (V<25.5mag) obtained so far in the studied region and contains 3964 identified variable stars, with 437 eclipsing binaries and 416 Cepheids.
