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4411. Variability in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/403/247
Title:
Variability in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey
Short Name:
J/A+A/403/247
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present a systematic search for variability among the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) X-ray sources. We generated lightcurves for about 30000 X-ray point sources detected sufficiently high above background. For our variability study different search algorithms were developed in order to recognize flares, periods and trends, respectively. The variable X-ray sources were optically identified with counterparts in the SIMBAD, the USNO-A2.0 and NED data bases, but a significant part of the X-ray sources remains without cataloged optical counterparts. A complete list of the 1207 variable sources we found is presented here.
4412. Variability of classical T Tauri
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/461/183
Title:
Variability of classical T Tauri
Short Name:
J/A+A/461/183
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We report the results of a study the long term variability of Classical T Tauri stars (CTTS) over up to 20 years, characterize it from a set of statistical parameters and discuss its origin. We characterize the long term photometric variations of 49 CTTs with sufficient data for allowing a robust statistical analysis and propose an empirical classification scheme. Several patterns of long term photometric variability are identified. The most common pattern, exhibited by a group of 15 stars which includes T Tau itself, consists of low level variability (with V-amplitude less than 0.4mag) with no significant changes occurring from season to season over many years. A related subgroup of 22 stars exhibit a similar stable long term variability pattern, though with larger amplitudes (up to 1.6mag). Besides these representative groups, we identify three smaller groups of 3-5 stars each of which have distinctive photometric properties. The long term variability of most CTTS is fairly stable and merely reflects shorter term variability due to cold and hot surface spots. Only a small fraction of CTTS undergo significant brightness changes on the long term (months, years), which probably arise from slowly varying circumstellar extinction.
4413. Variability of Cyg X-1 in 1994-1998
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AZh/78/408
Title:
Variability of Cyg X-1 in 1994-1998
Short Name:
J/AZh/78/408
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Photoelectric UBVR photometry of Cyg X-1 obtained during the coordinated international campaign 'Optical Monitoring of Unique Astrophysical objects', carried out in observatories of CIS countries (Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistanin and Ukraine) 1994-1998 is presented. The data are presented as a single set, taking into account systematic differences between individual data sets. In total 2258 UBVR observations were obtained during 407 nights.
4414. Variability of Cyg X-1 (V1357) in 1995-1996
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PAZh/26/27
Title:
Variability of Cyg X-1 (V1357) in 1995-1996
Short Name:
J/PAZh/26/27
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Photoelectric UBVR photometry of Cyg X-1 with 1-m Tian'-Shan' and 48-cm Maidanak Observatory reflectors from October 1995 through November 1996 are presented.
4415. Variability of FBS blue stellar objects
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/415/1061
Title:
Variability of FBS blue stellar objects
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/415/1061
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
A new method for combined calculations of magnitudes based on accurate measurements of POSS1 and POSS2 epoch plates is given. The photometric accuracy of various surveys and catalogs has been estimated and established and statistical weights for each of them have been calculated. To achieve the best possible magnitudes, weighted averaging of data from USNO-A2.0, APM, MAPS, USNO-B1.0, and GSC 2.3.2 catalogs have been used. The rms accuracy of magnitudes achieved for POSS1 is 0.184 mag for B and 0.173 mag for R and for POSS2 is 0.138 mag for B and 0.128 mag for R. We have derived the best POSS1 and POSS2 magnitudes for the FBS blue stellar objects. We have refined the transformation formulae between the POSS1 and POSS2 magnitudes and SDSS ones and standard UBV system. Using these accurate magnitudes, we have estimated the variability of the FBS blue stellar objects and revealed probable and possible variables. We have worked out methods to control and exclude accidental errors that appear in any survey. We have compared and combined our results with those given in NSVS database and obtained better candidates for variability. Having excluded variables, we have combined POSS1 and POSS2 data for the rest of objects to achieve even better magnitudes and colors; the rms being smaller than 0.1 mag both in B and R and for the B-R colors. This approach has been applied to the First Byurakan Survey blue stellar objects containing significant number of white dwarfs, cataclysmic variables, as well as extragalactic objects (quasars, Seyferts, BL Lac objects). Altogether 336 variable objects have been revealed with POSS2-POSS1 >= 3{sigma} of the errors. An electronic table of these objects is given. Candidate variables are divided into 4 classes: extreme, strong, probable and possible variables. For a more reliable sample of variable objects we excluded possible ones from the list and were left with 161 objects. Analyzing radio and X-ray properties of these objects, we have revealed their nature and re-discovered or revealed candidate AGN, CVs, WDs and other objects.
4416. Variability of low-mass stars in SDSS Stripe 82
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/731/17
Title:
Variability of low-mass stars in SDSS Stripe 82
Short Name:
J/ApJ/731/17
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present a catalog of periodic stellar variability in the "Stripe 82" region of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. After aggregating and re-calibrating catalog-level data from the survey, we ran a period-finding algorithm (Supersmoother) on all point-source light curves. We used color selection to identify systems that are likely to contain low-mass stars, in particular M dwarfs and white dwarfs. In total, we found 207 candidates, the vast majority of which appear to be in eclipsing binary systems. The catalog described in this paper includes 42 candidate M dwarf/white dwarf pairs, four white dwarf pairs, 59 systems whose colors indicate they are composed of two M dwarfs and whose light-curve shapes suggest they are in detached eclipsing binaries, and 28 M dwarf systems whose light-curve shapes suggest they are in contact binaries. We find no detached systems with periods longer than 3 days, thus the majority of our sources are likely to have experienced orbital spin-up and enhanced magnetic activity.
4417. Variability of 3 protoplanetary nebulae
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PAZh/36/281
Title:
Variability of 3 protoplanetary nebulae
Short Name:
J/PAZh/36/281
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present new photometric data and analyze long-term UBV observations of three candidates for protoplanetary nebulae - F supergiants with infrared excesses at high Galactic latitudes -IRAS 18095+2704, IRAS 19386+0155, and IRAS 19500-1709. All these stars exhibit quasi-periodic low-amplitude variations caused by pulsations against the background of long-term brightness trends. For IRAS 18095+2704 = V887 Her, we have found a pulsation period of 109 days and revealed a linear brightness trend - the star brightens at constant (within the limits of the measurement errors) yearly mean color indices. The light curve of IRAS 19386+0155 = V1648 Aql in 2000-008 is represented by a wave with a fundamental period of 102 days whose modulation with a close period of 98 days leads to variations with a variable amplitude. V1648 Aql also shows a systematic rise in V brightness along with a reddening. IRAS 19500-1709 = V5112 Sgr exhibits irregular pulsations with periods of 39 and 47 days. The long-term variability component of V5112 Sgr may indicate that the star is binary.
4418. Variability of RSGs in M31 from the iPTF survey
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/859/73
Title:
Variability of RSGs in M31 from the iPTF survey
Short Name:
J/ApJ/859/73
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Most massive stars end their lives as red supergiants (RSGs), a short-lived evolutionary phase when they are known to pulsate with varying amplitudes. The RSG period-luminosity (PL) relation has been measured in the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds and M33 for about 120 stars in total. Using over 1500 epochs of R-band monitoring from the Palomar Transient Factory survey over a five-year period, we study the variability of 255 spectroscopically cataloged RSGs in M31. We find that all RGSs brighter than M_K_~-10mag (log(L/L_{sun}_)>4.8) are variable at {Delta}m_R_>0.05mag. Our period analysis finds 63 with significant pulsation periods. Using the periods found and the known values of M_K_ for these stars, we derive the RSG PL relation in M31 and show that it is consistent with those derived earlier in other galaxies of different metallicities. We also detect, for the first time, a sequence of likely first-overtone pulsations. Comparison to stellar evolution models from MESA confirms the first-overtone hypothesis and indicates that the variable stars in this sample have 12M_{sun}_<M<24M_{sun}_. As these RSGs are the immediate progenitors to Type II-P core-collapse supernovae (SNe), we also explore the implication of their variability in the initial-mass estimates for SN progenitors based on archival images of the progenitors. We find that this effect is small compared to the present measurement errors.
4419. Variability of seven blazars in six bands
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/562/A79
Title:
Variability of seven blazars in six bands
Short Name:
J/A+A/562/A79
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the light curves of six BL Lac objects, PKS 0537-441, PKS 0735+17, OJ 287, PKS 2005-489, PKS 2155- 304, W Comae, and of the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar PKS 1510-089, as a part of a photometric monitoring program in the near-infrared/optical bands started in 2004. All sources are Fermi Blazars. Our purpose is to investigate flux and spectral variability at short and long time scales. Systematic monitoring, independent of the activity of the source, guarantees high statistics, and allows to draw an unbiased view of different activity states on weekly/daily time scales for the whole timeframe, and on nightly timescales for some epochs. Data were obtained with the REM telescope located at the ESO premises of La Silla (Chile). Light curves were gathered in the optical/near-infrared VRIJHK bands from 2005 April to 2012 June. Variability >~3mag is observed in PKS 0537-441, PKS 1510-089 and PKS 2155-304, the largest ranges spanned in the near-infrared. The color intensity plots show rather different morphologies. The spectral energy distributions in general are well fitted by a power law, with some deviations which are more apparent in low states. Some variability episodes during a night interval are well documented for PKS 0537-441 and PKS 2155-304. For the latter source the variability time scale implies a large relativistic beaming factor.
4420. Variability of WR 86
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/384/1012
Title:
Variability of WR 86
Short Name:
J/A+A/384/1012
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The tables present photometric monitoring of WR 86 in the Walraven VBLUW system during two nights in July 1989, three nights in May/June 1990 and six nights in June 1990, together with UBV photometry during one night in 1995. Radial velocity measurements of WR86 for six emission lines in 1989, three emission lines in 1995 and two absorption lines in 1995. Equivalent width measurements of WR86 for five emission lines in 1989 and three emission lines in 1995.