- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/731/118
- Title:
- R-band variability in blazar S5 0716+71
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/731/118
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We report rapid optical variability for the blazar S5 0716+71 during 2010 March 8-10 and 19-20 in the CCD observations made from Mt. Abu Infrared Observatory. The light curves are constructed for a duration longer than 3hr each night, with very high temporal resolution (~45s in the R band). During 2010 March 8, the source smoothly decayed by about 0.15mag in 2.88hr, apart from a fast flicker lasting about 30 minutes. S5 0716+71 brightened during March 9 and 10, showing high activity, while it was relatively faint (>14mag in the R band) albeit variable during March 19-20. During March 9 and 10, rapid flickers in the intensity modulated the long-term intra-night (~3hr) variations. The present observations suggest that the blazar S5 0716+71 showed night-to-night and intra-night variability at various timescales with a 100% duty cycle for variation along with microvariability at significant levels. On a night-to-night basis, the source exhibits mild bluer-when-brighter nature. The interaction of shocks with local inhomogeneities in the jet appears to cause intra-night variations, while microvariations could be due to small-scale perturbations intrinsic to the jet.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/837/45
- Title:
- 2006-2012 Rc-band & 4.8GHz obs. of AO 0235+164
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/837/45
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Variability is one of the extreme observational properties of BL Lacertae objects. AO 0235+164 is a well-studied BL Lac throughout all electromagnetic wavebands. In the present work, we show its optical R-band photometric observations carried out during the period from 2006 November to 2012 December using the Ap6E CCD camera attached to the primary focus of the 70cm meniscus telescope at Abastumani Observatory, Georgia. During our monitoring period, it showed a large variation of {Delta}R=4.88mag (14.19-19.07mag) and a short timescale of {Delta}T_v_=73.5minutes. During the period of 2006 December to 2009 November, we made radio observations of the source using the 25m radio telescope at Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory. By adopting a discrete correlation function to the optical and radio observations we found that the optical variation leads a radio variation of 23.2+/-12.9days.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/351/1401
- Title:
- RcIcZ photometry of NGC 2547
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/351/1401
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalogue of RcIcZ photometry over an area of 0.855 square degrees, centred on the young open cluster NGC 2547. The survey is substantially complete to limits of Rc=21.5, Ic=19.5, Z=19.5. We use the catalogue to define a sample of NGC 2547 candidates with model-dependent masses of about 0.05-1.0M_{sun}_.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/376/561
- Title:
- Rc light curves of 7 variables in M37
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/376/561
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A CCD photometric study of the dense galactic open cluster M 37 is discussed. The majority of the analysed data have been obtained through an R_C_ filter in order to collect time-series measurements. The observations were carried out on seven nights between December 1999 and February 2000, and have led to the discovery of 7 new variable stars in the field. Three of them have been unambiguously identified as W UMa-type eclipsing binaries, while two more are monoperiodic pulsating stars, most probably high-amplitude {delta} Scuti-type variables. Two stars seem to be long-period eclipsing binaries without firm period determination. The individual light curve data are presented here.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AN/333/242
- Title:
- Recent photometry of symbiotic stars
- Short Name:
- J/AN/333/242
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present new multicolour (U,B,V,Rc,Ic) photometric observations of classical symbiotic stars, EG And, Z And, BF Cyg, CH Cyg, CI Cyg, V1329 Cyg, TX CVn, AG Dra, Draco C1, AG Peg and AX Per, carried out between 2007.1 and 2011.9. The aim of this paper is to present new data of our monitoring programme, to describe the main features of their light curves (LC) and to point problems for their future investigation. The data were obtained by the method of the classical photoelectric and CCD photometry.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/418/2054
- Title:
- Recession velocities for fossil galaxy groups
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/418/2054
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Defined as X-ray bright galaxy groups with large differences between the luminosities of their brightest and second brightest galaxies, "fossil groups" are believed to be some of the oldest galaxy systems in the Universe. They have therefore been the subject of much recent research. In this work we present a study of 10 fossil group candidates with an average of 33 spectroscopically confirmed members per group, making this the deepest study of its type to date. We also use these data to perform an analysis of the luminosity function of our sample of fossil groups.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/625/A14
- Title:
- Reclassification of Cepheids in the Gaia DR2
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/625/A14
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Classical Cepheids are the most important primary indicators for the extragalactic distance scale. Establishing the precise zero points of their Period-Luminosity and Period-Wesenheit (PL/PW) relations has profound consequences on the estimate of H_0_. Type II Cepheids are also important distance indicator and tracers of old stellar populations. The recent Data Release 2 (DR2) of the Gaia Spacecraft includes photometry and parallaxes for thousands of classical and type II cepheids. We aim at reviewing the classification of Gaia DR2 Cepheids and to derive precise PL/PW for Magellanic Cloud (MCs) and Galactic Cepheids. Information from the literature and the Gaia astrometry and photometry are adopted to assign DR2 Galactic Cepheids to the classes: Classical, Anomalous and Type II Cepheids. We re-classify the DR2 Galactic Cepheids and derive new precise PL/PW relations in the Gaia passbands for the MCs and Milky Way Cepheids. We investigated for the first time the dependence on metallicity of the PW relation for Classical Cepheids in the Gaia} bands, finding non-conclusive results. According to our analysis, the zero point of the Gaia DR2 parallaxes as estimated from Classical and Type II Cepheids seems to be likely underestimated by ~0.07mas, in full agreement with recent literature. The next Gaia data releases are expected to fix this zero point offset to eventually allow a determination of H_0_ to less than 1%.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/721/L28
- Title:
- Red clump stars in Galactic Bulge from OGLE-III
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/721/L28
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The red clump (RC) is found to be split into two components along several sightlines toward the Galactic bulge. This split is detected with high significance toward the areas (-3.5<l<1,b<-5) and (l,b)=(0,+5.2), i.e., along the bulge minor axis and at least 5 deg off the plane. The fainter (hereafter "main") component is the one that more closely follows the distance-longitude relation of the bulge RC. The main component is ~0.5mag fainter than the secondary component and with an overall approximately equal population. For sightlines further from the plane, the difference in brightness increases, and more stars are found in the secondary component than in the main component. The two components have very nearly equal (V-I) color.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/440/901
- Title:
- Reddening and metallicity of NGC 6752
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/440/901
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Accurate reddenings for Globular Clusters could be obtained by comparing the colour-temperature obtained using temperatures from reddening-free indicator (H{alpha}), with that given by standard colour-temperature calibrations. The large multiplexing opportunity offered by FLAMES at VLT2 allowed us to obtain spectra centered on H{alpha} at a resolution of R=6000 and 5<S/N<50 for 120 stars near the turn-off of NGC 6752 with GIRAFFE from a single 1300 seconds exposure on June 24th, 2004.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/870/115
- Title:
- Reddening, distance modulus & Fe/H of RRLs in w Cen
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/870/115
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We developed a new approach to provide accurate estimates of the metal content, reddening, and true distance modulus of RR Lyrae stars (RRLs). The method is based on homogeneous optical (BVI) and near-infrared (JHK) mean magnitudes and on predicted period-luminosity-metallicity relations (IJHK) and absolute mean magnitude-metallicity relations (BV). We obtained solutions for three different RRL samples in {omega}Cen: first overtone (RRc, 90), fundamental (RRab, 80), and global (RRc+RRab) in which the period of first overtones were fundamentalized. The metallicity distribution shows a well defined peak at [Fe/H]~-1.98 and a standard deviation of {sigma}=0.54dex. The spread is, as expected, metal-poor ([Fe/H]<=-2.3) objects. The current metallicity distribution is ~0.3dex more metal-poor than similar estimates for RRLs available in the literature. The difference vanishes if the true distance modulus we estimated is offset by -0.06/-0.07mag in true distance modulus. We also found a cluster true distance modulus of {mu}=13.720{+/-}0.002{+/-}0.030mag, where the former error is the error on the mean and the latter is the standard deviation. Moreover, we found a cluster reddening of E(B-V)=0.132{+/-}0.002{+/-}0.028mag and spatial variations of the order of a few arcmin across the body of the cluster. Both the true distance modulus and the reddening are slightly larger than similar estimates available in the literature, but the difference is within 1{sigma}. The metallicity dependence of distance diagnostics agrees with theory and observations, but firm constraints require accurate and homogeneous spectroscopic measurements.
