- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/493/1093
- Title:
- BVRI light curves of {eta} Car
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/493/1093
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The periodicity of 5.5 years for some observational events occurring in {eta} Carinae manifests itself across a large wavelength range and has been associated with its binary nature. These events are supposed to occur when the binary components are close to periastron. To detect the previous periastron passage of {eta} Car in 2003, we started an intensive, ground-based, optical, photometric observing campaign. We continued observing the object to monitor its photometric behavior and variability across the entire orbital cycle. Our observation program consisted of daily differential photometry from CCD images, which were acquired using a 0.8m telescope and a standard BVRI filter set at La Plata Observatory. The photometry includes the central object and the surrounding Homunculus nebula. We present up-to-date results of our observing program, including homogeneous photometric data collected between 2003 and 2008. Our observations demonstrated that {eta} Car has continued increasing in brightness at a constant rate since 1998. In 2006, it reached its brightest magnitude (V~4.7) since about 1860s. The object then suddenly reverted its brightening trend, fading to V=5.0 at the beginning of 2007, and has maintained a quite steady state since then. We continue the photometric monitoring of {eta} Car in anticipation of the next "periastron passage", predicted to occur at the beginning of 2009.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/645/A137
- Title:
- BVRI light curves of PG 1553+113
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/645/A137
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The TeV BL Lac object PG 1553+113 is one of the primary candidates for a binary supermassive black hole system. We study the flux and spectral variability of PG 1553+113 on intra-night to long-term timescales using (i) BVRI data collected over 76 nights from January 2016 to August 2019 involving nine optical telescopes and (ii) historical VR data (including ours) obtained for the period from 2005 to 2019. We analysed the light curves using various statistical tests, fitting and cross-correlation techniques, and methods for the search for periodicity. We examined the colour-magnitude diagrams before and after the corresponding light curves were corrected for the long-term variations. Our intra-night monitoring, supplemented with literature data, result in a low duty cycle of ~(10-17)%. In April 2019, we recorded a flare, which marks the brightest state of PG 1553+113 for the period from 2005 to 2019: R~13.2mag. This flare is found to show a clockwise spectral hysteresis loop on its VR colour-magnitude diagram and a time lag in the sense that the V-band variations lead the R-band ones. We obtain estimates of the radius, the magnetic field strength, and the electron energy that characterize the emission region related to the flare. We find a median period of (2.21+/-0.04) years using the historical light curves. In addition, we detect a secondary period of about 210 days using the historical light curves corrected for the long-term variations. We briefly discuss the possible origin of this period.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/136/1846
- Title:
- BVRI light curves of S5 0716+714
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/136/1846
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the optical photometry (B, V, R, and I) of the BL Lac object S5 0716+714 (z>0.3), which were observed with the 1m telescope at Yunnan Astronomical Observatory and the 1.56m telescope at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory from 2001 February to 2006 April.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/138/845
- Title:
- BVRI observations of 235 bright quasars
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/138/845
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Photometric observations of 235 extragalactic objects that are potential targets for the Space Interferometry Mission (SIM) are presented. Mean B, V, R, I magnitudes at the 5% level are obtained at 1-4 epochs between 2005 and 2007 using the 1m telescopes at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory and the Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station. Of the 134 sources that have V magnitudes in the Veron & Veron-Cetty catalog (Cat. VII/248), a difference of over 1.0mag is found for the observed-catalog magnitudes for about 36% of the common sources, and 10 sources show over 3mag difference. Our first set of observations presented here form the basis of a long-term photometric variability study of the selected reference frame sources to assist in mission target selection and to support QSO multicolor photometric variability studies in general.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/142/99
- Title:
- BVRI observations of TZ Boo
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/142/99
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- New CCD photometric BVRI observations of the puzzling W UMa type binary star, TZ Bootis, are presented from our observations in 2010. By using the updated version of the Wilson-Devinney code, the first modern photometric solution is deduced from new photometric observations and published spectroscopic data.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/other/Ap/48.304
- Title:
- BVRI of comparison stars in AGN fields
- Short Name:
- J/other/Ap/48.30
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Results are presented from CCD BVRI-observations of 145 comparison stars in the neighborhoods of 14 Seyfert galaxies, 3 quasars, and 5 BL Lac objects with right ascensions of 12 to 24 hours. The magnitudes of the observed stars ranged from V=11 to V=17. The typical photometric error for stars brighter V=14 is 0.01m. The B, V, Rc, and Ic magnitudes of most of these stars were not known previously. 14'x14' finding charts are provided. These results can be used for differential photometry of the nuclei of active galaxies in the B, V, Rc, and Ic bands.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/142/425
- Title:
- BVRI photometry of 6 galaxies
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/142/425
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present photometry of the brightest stars in six nearby spiral and irregular galaxies with corrected radial velocities from 340 to 460km/s. Three of them are resolved into stars for the first time. Based on luminosity of the brightest blue stars we estimate the following distances to the galaxies: 5.0Mpc for NGC 784, 9.2Mpc for NGC 2683, 8.9Mpc for NGC 2903, 4.1Mpc for NGC 5204, 6.8Mpc for NGC 5474, and 8.7Mpc for NGC 5585.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/142/347
- Title:
- BVRI photometry of NGC 6789
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/142/347
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper we present the results of a detailed B, V, R, I, and H{alpha} study of the isolated nearby blue compact dwarf (BCD) galaxy NGC 6789. The observed galaxy has not yet been resolved into stars up to now. On CCD frames obtained with 6m BTA telescope and 2.5m Nordic telescope the galaxy is well resolved. Its colour-magnitude diagram confirms the two component (core-halo) galaxy morphology, which consists of two stellar populations distinct in structure and colour: an inner high surface-brightness young population within 150pc from the center of the galaxy, and a relatively low surface-brightness intermediate-age population extending out to at least 600pc. The distance to the galaxy, estimated from the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) is 2.1Mpc which places NGC 6789 close to the Local Group. From the mean colour of the RGB, the mean metal abundance of the halo population is estimated as [Fe/H]=~-1dex.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/129/569
- Title:
- BVRI photometry of OJ 287
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/129/569
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Results of BVRI CCD photometric monitoring and fast photometry in the I band for the blazar OJ 287 in 1994-1995 are presented. The predicted outburst of the blazar had been observed, the maximum appeared in 1994 November, after that, the luminosity decreased by 1.6mag for about three months and dropped to near the level in 1994 April. Rapid variations with timescales of minutes, hours and one day were observed in our observations, with small amplitude. The amplitude of the most rapid variations (minutes) is in the range of 0.043-0.12mag . The results of the statistical analysis of the fast photometry data are as follows. In five nights out of six rapid variability appeared in the sampling interval, which ranged from 3.4 minutes to 6.5 minutes, with a rms amplitude of flux variations of 1.70%-2.3%. The rapid variability can be explained by the model of shocks within turbulent jet or of vortices and magnetic flux tubes on accretion disk.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AN/326/3
- Title:
- BVRI photometry of 4 open clusters
- Short Name:
- J/AN/326/3
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- CCD photometry of the galactic open clusters NGC 2627, NGC 5617, Pismis 7, and Ruprecht 75 is presented. For the first cluster, BV data are given, for the others the data are BV(RI)_c. The star coordinates are relative to the corresponding cluster center. The observations were carried out from the Complejo Astronomico El Leoncito (Argentina), and from Las Campanas (Chile). Each cluster was observed on two different nights; when possible, measurements for a given star were averaged. NGC 2627 observations were carried out from CASLEO on the nights of 7-8 January 1997 and 23-24 April 2001, in the BV filters. NGC 5617 data in the BVRI filters were obtained at Las Campanas on the nights 10-11 and 11-12 April 1996, and at CASLEO on the 1-2 April 2001 night. Pismis 7 was observed from Campanas on the 13-14 and 15-16 April 1996 nights (BVRI). Ruprecht 75 data in the BVRI filters were obtained at Las Campanas on the 12-13 April 1996 night, and at CASLEO on the 20-21 April 2001 night.