We introduce a data set of 142 mostly late-type spiral, irregular, and peculiar (interacting or merging) nearby galaxies observed in UBVR at the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), and we present an analysis of their radial color gradients.
A catalogue of photoelectric stellar magnitudes and colours in the UBVR Johnson system in 47 sky areas with galaxies near the Main Galactic Meridian is presented. The catalogue includes 1141 stars within the V magnitude interval 4.5-15.5mag. The rms errors are +/-0.014, +/-0.026, +/-0.012, +/-0.016mag for stellar magnitudes V and colours (U-B), (B-V), (V-R), respectively. The catalogue contains accurate equatorial coordinates (alpha, delta)_1950.0_, too.
The CCD observations of a sky area in the NGC 6913 cluster were performed with the 2-meter telescope of the Terskol Peak Observatory (Northern Caucasus, Russian Federation). The magnitudes and coordinates of stars down to V=20mag were determined for a 7'x5' field. The equatorial coordinates of stars were obtained in the reference system of the USNO A2.0 catalog (Cat. <I/252>) with an accuracy of 0.35". The relationship between the instrumental photometric system and the Johnson UBVR system was derived.
Table 2 presents standard broad band U, B, V, R photoelectric photometry of AX Persei. Each value represents the average of the observations during a night. The uncertainty of these night-means is of a few x 0.001mag in the B, V and R bands, and up to 0.02mag in the U band. Table 3 presents observed spectrophotometric parameters of the spectrum: the line fluxes, fluxes in the local continuum and the radial velocities.
Photoelectric UBVR photometry of 2 eclipsing variables are presented. Each binary was observed between 1989 and 1995 with the 60 cm telescopes at the Maidanak Observatory (Uzbekistan).
We present extensive UBVR photometry of the Galactic globular cluster (GGC) NGC 6712 obtained with the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) which reaches down to 2 mag below the main-sequence turn-off and allows us for the first time to determine the age of this cluster.
In this paper we present the Johnson-Cousins UBVR CCD photometry of the stars in King 2, an old open cluster towards the galactic anticenter. We have obtained the colour-magnitude diagram, the colour excess, the reddening, an estimate of the metallicity, and the distance modulus. The comparison of the observational colour-magnitude diagram with the theoretical simulations based on stellar models with convective overshoot shows that a major revision of the model structure is required. To this aim, we explore the possibility that the formulation of convective overshoot for stars in the mass range 1 to 2M_{sun}_ ought to be different from the one currently in use. The point of major uncertainty that we see to affect the stars in this domain is whether or not convective overshoot may erode the gradient in molecular weight in the regions surrounding the convective core. We find that models, in which this is not allowed to occur, better fit the overall morphology of the colour-magnitude diagram of King 2. In addition to this, analyzing the width of the main sequence band we suggest that a significant fraction of the stars are members of binary systems, and evaluate the range spanned by their mass ratios. Finally, we derive the luminosity function and the mass function for the main sequence stars of the cluster.
The theory of binary star formation predicts that close binaries (a<100au) will experience periodic pulsed accretion events as streams of material form at the inner edge of a circumbinary disk (CBD), cross a dynamically cleared gap, and feed circumstellar disks or accrete directly onto the stars. The archetype for the pulsed accretion theory is the eccentric, short-period, classical T Tauri binary DQ Tau. Low-cadence (~daily) broadband photometry has shown brightening events near most periastron passages, just as numerical simulations would predict for an eccentric binary. Magnetic reconnection events (flares) during the collision of stellar magnetospheres near periastron could, however, produce the same periodic, broadband behavior when observed at a one-day cadence. To reveal the dominant physical mechanism seen in DQ Tau's low-cadence observations, we have obtained continuous, moderate-cadence, multiband photometry over 10 orbital periods, supplemented with 27 nights of minute-cadence photometry centered on four separate periastron passages. While both accretion and stellar flares are present, the dominant timescale and morphology of brightening events are characteristic of accretion. On average, the mass accretion rate increases by a factor of five near periastron, in good agreement with recent models. Large variability is observed in the morphology and amplitude of accretion events from orbit to orbit. We argue that this is due to the absence of stable circumstellar disks around each star, compounded by inhomogeneities at the inner edge of the CBD and within the accretion streams themselves. Quasiperiodic apastron accretion events are also observed, which are not predicted by binary accretion theory.
The results of a UBVR photometry observations are presented for eclipsing binary V1481 Cyg in the open cluster NGC 7128. The binary was observed between 1993 and 1995 with the 1m and 0.6m telescopes at Maidanak Observatory (Uzbekistan).
