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4421. Variables and dippers in young associations
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/498/5972
Title:
Variables and dippers in young associations
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/498/5972
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Young associations in star-forming regions are stellar systems that allow us to understand the mechanisms that characterize the stars in their early life and what happens around them. In particular, the analysis of the discs and of the exoplanets around young stars allows us to know the key processes that prevail in their evolution and understand the properties of the exoplanets orbiting older stars. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission is giving us the opportunity to extract and analyse the light curves of association members with high accuracy, but the crowding that affects these regions makes difficult the light curve extraction. In the PATHOS project, cutting-edge tools are used to extract high-precision light curves and identify variable stars and transiting exoplanets in open clusters and associations. In this work, I analysed the light curves of stars in five young (<10Myr) associations, searching for variables and candidate exoplanets. Using the rotational periods of the association members, I constrained the ages of the five stellar systems (~2-10Myr). I searched for dippers, and I investigated the properties of the dust that forms the circumstellar discs. Finally, I searched for transiting signals, finding six strong candidate exoplanets. No candidates with radius Rp<0.9R_J_ have been detected, in agreement with the expectations. The frequency of giant planets resulted to be ~2-3 per cent, higher than that expected for field stars (<1 per cent); the low statistic makes this conclusion not strong, and new investigations on young objects are mandatory to confirm this result.
4422. Variables in LMC globular clusters. III. Reticulum
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/145/160
Title:
Variables in LMC globular clusters. III. Reticulum
Short Name:
J/AJ/145/160
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
This is the third in a series of papers studying the variable stars in old globular clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The primary goal of this series is to look at how the characteristics and behavior of RR Lyrae stars in Oosterhoff-intermediate systems compare to those of their counterparts in Oosterhoff-I/II systems. In this paper we present the results of our new time-series BVI photometric study of the globular cluster Reticulum. We found a total of 32 variables stars (22 RRab, 4 RRc, and 6 RRd stars) in our field of view. We present photometric parameters and light curves for these stars. We also present physical properties, derived from Fourier analysis of light curves, for some of the RR Lyrae stars. We discuss the Oosterhoff classification of Reticulum and use our results to re-derive the distance modulus and age of the cluster.
4423. Variables in LMC globular clusters. II. NGC 1786
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/144/186
Title:
Variables in LMC globular clusters. II. NGC 1786
Short Name:
J/AJ/144/186
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
This is the second in a series of papers studying the variable stars in Large Magellanic Cloud globular clusters. The primary goal of this series is to study how RR Lyrae stars in Oosterhoff-intermediate systems compare to their counterparts in Oosterhoff I/II systems. In this paper, we present the results of our new time-series B-V photometric study of the globular cluster NGC 1786. A total of 65 variable stars were identified in our field of view. These variables include 53 RR Lyraes (27 RRab, 18 RRc, and 8 RRd), 3 classical Cepheids, 1 Type II Cepheid, 1 Anomalous Cepheid, 2 eclipsing binaries, 3 Delta Scuti/SX Phoenicis variables, and 2 variables of undetermined type. Photometric parameters for these variables are presented. We present physical properties for some of the RR Lyrae stars, derived from Fourier analysis of their light curves. We discuss several different indicators of Oosterhoff type which indicate that the Oosterhoff classification of NGC 1786 is not as clear cut as what is seen in most globular clusters.
4424. Variables in M33
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/371/1405
Title:
Variables in M33
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/371/1405
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We have conducted a variability survey of the Local Group galaxy M33, using g', r', and i' observations from 27 nights spanning 17 months, made with the MegaPrime/MegaCam instrument on the 3.6m CFHT telescope (Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope). We identify more than 36000 variable sources with g', r', i'<~24, out of approximately two million point sources in a 1-deg^2^ field of view. This increases the number of known variables in this galaxy by more than a factor of 20. In this paper, we provide a brief description of the data and a general overview of the variable star population which includes more than 1300 candidate variable blue and red supergiant stars, more than 2000 Cepheids, and more than 19000 long-period variable asymptotic giant branch and red giant branch stars.
4425. Variables in metal-rich clusters. IV. NGC 6496
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/149/40
Title:
Variables in metal-rich clusters. IV. NGC 6496
Short Name:
J/AJ/149/40
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present VI-band photometry for stars in the metal-rich globular cluster NGC 6496. Our time-series data were cadenced to search for long-period variables (LPVs) over a span of nearly two years, and our variability search yielded the discovery of 13 new variable stars, of which 6 are LPVs, 2 are suspected LPVs, and 5 are short-period eclipsing binaries. An additional star was found in the ASAS database, and we clarify its type and period. We argue that all of the eclipsing binaries are field stars, while five to six of the LPVs are members of NGC 6496. We compare the period-luminosity distribution of these LPVs with those of LPVs in the Large Magellanic Cloud and 47 Tucanae, and with theoretical pulsation models. We also present a VI color-magnitude diagram, display the evolutionary states of the variables, and match isochrones to determine a reddening of E(B-V)=0.21+/-0.02mag and apparent distance modulus of 15.60+/-0.15mag.
4426. Variables in Praesepe identified with KELT
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/135/907
Title:
Variables in Praesepe identified with KELT
Short Name:
J/AJ/135/907
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) project is a small aperture, wide-angle search for planetary transits of solar-type stars. In this paper, we present the results of a commissioning campaign with the KELT telescope to observe the open cluster Praesepe for 34 nights in early 2005. Light curves were obtained for 69337 stars, out of which we identify 58 long-period variables and 152 periodic variables. Sixteen of these are previously known as variable, yielding 194 newly discovered variable stars for which we provide properties and light curves. We also searched for planetary-like transits, finding four transit candidates. Follow-up observations indicate that two of the candidates are astrophysical false positives, with two candidates remaining as potential planetary transits.
4427. Variables in the fields of M35 and NGC2158
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/447/3536
Title:
Variables in the fields of M35 and NGC2158
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/447/3536
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present a multiyear survey aimed at collecting (1) high-precision (~5 milli-mag), (2) fast-cadence (~3-min), and (3) relatively long duration (~10d) multiband photometric series. The goal of the survey is to discover and characterize efficiently variable objects and exoplanetary transits in four fields containing five nearby open clusters spanning a broad range of ages. More in detail, our project will (1) constitute a preparatory survey for the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher for the Northern hemisphere (HARPS-N) mounted at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG), which will be used for spectroscopic follow-up of any target of interest that this survey discovers or characterizes, (2) measure rotational periods and estimate the activity level of targets we are already monitoring with HARPS and HARPS-N for exoplanet transit search, and (3) long-term characterization of selected targets of interest in open clusters within the planned K2 fields. In this first paper, we give an overview of the project, and report on the variability of objects within the first of our selected fields, which contains two open clusters: M35 and NGC 2158. We detect 519 variable objects, 273 of which are new discoveries, while the periods of most of the previously known variables are considerably improved.
4428. Variables observed in the Galactic disk by AST3-1
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/153/104
Title:
Variables observed in the Galactic disk by AST3-1
Short Name:
J/AJ/153/104
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
AST3-1 is the second-generation wide-field optical photometric telescope dedicated to time-domain astronomy at Dome A, Antarctica. Here, we present the results of an i-band images survey from AST3-1 toward one Galactic disk field. Based on time-series photometry of 92583 stars, 560 variable stars were detected with i magnitude {<=}16.5mag during eight days of observations; 339 of these are previously unknown variables. We tentatively classify the 560 variables as 285 eclipsing binaries (EW, EB, and EA), 27 pulsating variable stars ({delta} Scuti, {gamma} Doradus, {delta} Cephei variable, and RR Lyrae stars), and 248 other types of variables (unclassified periodic, multiperiodic, and aperiodic variable stars). Of the eclipsing binaries, 34 show O'Connell effects. One of the aperiodic variables shows a plateau light curve and another variable shows a secondary maximum after peak brightness. We also detected a complex binary system with an RS CVn-like light-curve morphology; this object is being followed-up spectroscopically using the Gemini South telescope.
4429. Variable stars in and around NGC 2264 with BEST
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/773/54
Title:
Variable stars in and around NGC 2264 with BEST
Short Name:
J/ApJ/773/54
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Time-series photometry of the CoRoT field SRa01 was carried out with the Berlin Exoplanet Search Telescope II in 2008/2009. A total of 1161 variable stars were detected, of which 241 were previously known and 920 are newly found. Several new, variable young stellar objects have been discovered. The study of the spatial distribution of eclipsing binaries revealed the higher relative frequency of Algols toward the center of the young open cluster NGC 2264. In general Algol frequency obeys an isotropic distribution of their angular momentum vectors, except inside the cluster, where a specific orientation of the inclinations is the case. We suggest that we see the orbital plane of the binaries almost edge-on.
4430. Variable stars in And I and And III
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/129/2232
Title:
Variable stars in And I and And III
Short Name:
J/AJ/129/2232
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the results of variable star searches of the M31 dwarf spheroidal (dSph) companions Andromeda I and Andromeda III using the Hubble Space Telescope. A total of 100 variable stars were found in And I, while 56 were found in And III. One variable found in And I and another in And III may be type II Cepheids. In addition to this variable in And III, another four variables are anomalous Cepheids (ACs). So far, no definite ACs have been discovered in And I.