- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/501/153
- Title:
- VRB photometry of red supergiants
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/501/153
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Knowledge of the red supergiant (RSG) population of nearby galaxies allows us to probe massive star evolution as a function of metallicity; however, contamination by foreground Galactic dwarfs dominates surveys for red stars in Local Group galaxies beyond the Magellanic Clouds. Model atmospheres predict that low-gravity supergiants will have B-V values that are redder by several tenths of a magnitude than foreground dwarfs at a given V-R color, a result that is largely independent of reddening. We conduct a BVR survey of several fields in the Local Group galaxies NGC 6822, M33, and M31 as well as neighboring control fields and identify RSG candidates from CCD photometry. The survey is complete to V=20.5, corresponding to M_V_=-4.5 or an M_bol_ of -6.3 for the reddest stars. Follow-up spectroscopy at the Ca II triplet of 130 stars is used to demonstrate that our photometric criterion for identifying RSGs is highly successful (96% for stars brighter than V=19.5; 82% for V=19.5-20.5). Classification spectra are also obtained for a number of stars in order to calibrate color with spectral type empirically.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/158/51
- Title:
- VR CCD photometry of variable stars in the GC NGC 4147
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/158/51
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present results of a search for variable stars in a region of the globular cluster NGC 4147 based on photometric observations with a 4Kx4K CCD imager mounted at the axial port of the recently installed 3.6 m Devasthal optical telescope (DOT) at Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Nainital, India. We performed time series photometry of NGC 4147 in the V and R bands, and identified 42 periodic variables in the region of NGC 4147, 28 of which have been detected for the first time. Seventeen variable stars are located within the half-light radius ~<0.48', of which 10 stars are newly identified variables. Two of the 10 variables are located within the core radius ~<0.09'. Based on their location in the V/(V-R) color-magnitude diagram and variability characteristics, seven, eight, five, and one newly identified probable member variables are classified as RRc, EA/E, EW, and SX Phe, respectively. The metallicity of NGC 4147 estimated from the light curves of RRab and RRc stars with the help of Fourier decomposition is found to be characteristic of Oosterhoff II. The distance derived using the light curves of RRab stars is consistent with that obtained from the observed V/(V-R) color-magnitude diagram.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/440/53
- Title:
- VRc light curves of SBSG 1520+530
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/440/53
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The files table1.dat and table2.dat contain light curves of the double quasar SBS1520+530 obtained at Maidanak observatory from April 2003 to August 2004. table1.dat contains the R-band light curve. table2.dat contains the V-R light curve.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/886/150
- Title:
- VRI and K-band light curves of type 1 AGNs
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/886/150
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a dust-reverberation survey of quasars at redshifts z<0.6. We found a delayed response of the K-band flux variation after the optical flux variation in 25 out of 31 targets, and obtained the lag time between them for 22 targets. Combined with the results for nearby Seyfert galaxies, we provide the largest homogeneous collection of K-band dust-reverberation data for 36 type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGNs). This doubles the sample and includes the most distant AGN and the largest lag so far measured. We estimated the optical luminosity of the AGN component of each target using three different methods: spectral decomposition, the flux-variation-gradient method, and image decomposition. We found a strong correlation between the reverberation radius for the innermost dust torus and the optical luminosity over a range of approximately four orders of magnitude in luminosity, as is already known for Seyfert galaxies. We estimated the luminosity distances of the AGNs based on their dust-reverberation lags, and found that the data in the redshift-distance diagram are consistent with the current standard estimates of the cosmological parameters. We also present the radius-luminosity relations for isotropic luminosity indicators such as the hard X-ray (14-195keV), [OIV]25.89{mu}m, and mid-infrared (12{mu}m) continuum luminosities, which are applicable to obscured AGNs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/410/879
- Title:
- VRI CCD photometry of NGC 2126
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/410/879
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first CCD photometric observations of the northern open cluster NGC 2126. Data were taken on eight nights in February and December 2002 with a total time span of ~57 hours. Almost 1000 individual V-band frames were examined to find short-period variable stars. We discovered six new variable stars, of which one is a promising candidate for an eclipsing binary with a pulsating component. Here we present single-epoch colours and magnitudes for ~800 stars in the field and the light curve data for the six variables. Note that the coordinates in ngc2126.dat are not particularly accurate because of the applied crude astrometry (errors up to +/-1-2arcsec are quite likely close to the edge). For variable star identification, consult table3.dat.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/417/745
- Title:
- V(RI)C differential photometry of V861 Her
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/417/745
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- First Cousins V(RI)_C_ light curves of the W UMa-type eclipsing variable star V861 Herculis are presented. The system was observed in 2000 and 2003. The light curves obtained at different epochs showed significant deviation from each other. The O'Connell effect (usually explained by spots on the surface which are responsible for variations in the intensity of the system) was about {Delta}V=0.05mag in 2000 but it vanished in 2003 (except the night of February 22/23, 2003 when we observed a small O'Connell effect ({Delta}V=0.020)). Further peculiarities of the light curves are also discussed.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/132/960
- Title:
- V(RI)c light-curves of EQ Tauri
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/132/960
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- New V, R_C_, and I_C_ light curves of EQ Tau have been obtained in 2002 and 2003. These show the secondary minimum to be a total eclipse. These new light curves have been analyzed, together with the published radial velocity observations, using the Wilson-Devinney code. The binary has an overcontact configuration, with an orbital inclination of 85{deg}, a difference in component temperature of 80K, and an overcontact fill-out factor of 16%. Absolute parameters of the component stars have been determined: M1=1.28M_{sun}_, R1=1.17R_{sun}_, L1=1.39 L_{sun}_, and M2=0.47M_{sun}_, R2=0.81R_{sun}_, L2=0.63L_{sun}_. The calculated distance is 180+/-20pc. A critical review of our new timings of minimum light together with previously published ones suggests a change from one constant period to another one around 1974 rather than a cyclical variation. When corrected for energy transfer in the common envelope, the physical parameters of the two components are in good agreement with those of unevolved single stars of similar masses.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/343/446
- Title:
- VRI Cousins photometry of Am stars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/343/446
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Tablea1 contains photoelectric VRI Cousins photometry for 63 Am stars observed on the 17th June, 1996 with the 1.52m telescope of the Observatorio Astronomico Nacional (O.A.N.) at Calar Alto (Almeria, Spain), and on the 25th and 26th of the same month using the 1m Jakobus Kapteyn telescope at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos (O.R.M., Canary Islands, Spain). The reduction procedure followed is explained in Rossello et al. (1985A&AS...59..399R) and Landolt (1983, Cat. <II/118>; 1983AJ.....88..853L) standard stars were used. We provide the V magnitude, the (V-R) and (V-I) colour indices, their associated standard errors and the number of observations performed for each star.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/PASP/111/812
- Title:
- V(RI)C Phot of Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds
- Short Name:
- J/PASP/111/812
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present V(RI)C data for 13 Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud and eight in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The total number of new measures is 55 in each wavelength band. The median uncertainty in the photometry is 0.03 mag. These results supplement a larger photometric program presented in the second paper in this series which contained 1000 measures (0.01 mag) in each wavelength band on 22 variables with periods in the range 8133 days.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/405/1711
- Title:
- VRIg'i' photometry of 7 M15 giants
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/405/1711
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a search for long-period variable (LPV) stars among giant branch stars in M15 which, at [Fe/H]~-2.3, is one of the most metal-poor Galactic globular clusters. We use multicolour optical photometry from the 0.6-m Keele Thornton and 2-m Liverpool Telescopes. Variability of {delta}V~0.15mag is detected in K757 and K825 over unusually long time-scales of nearly a year, making them the most metal-poor LPVs found in a Galactic globular cluster. K825 is placed on the long secondary period sequence, identified for metal-rich LPVs, though no primary period is detectable. We discuss this variability in the context of dust production and stellar evolution at low metallicity, using additional spectra from the 6.5-m Magellan (Las Campanas) telescope. A lack of dust production, despite the presence of gaseous mass loss raises questions about the production of dust and the intracluster medium of this cluster.
