Jaimes, RF, Bramich, DM, Skottfelt, J, Kains, N, Jorgensen, UG, Horne, K, Dominik, M, Alsubai, KA, Bozza, V, Novati, SC, Ciceri, S, D'Ago, G, Galianni, P, Gu, S-H, Harpsoe, KBW, Haugbolle, T, Hinse, TC, Hundertmark, M, Juncher, D, Korhonen, H, Mancini, L, Popovas, A, Rabus, M, Rahvar, S, Scarpetta, G, Schmidt, RW, Snodgrass, C, Southworth, J, Starkey, D, Street, RA, Surdej, J, Wang, X-B, Wertz, O and Consortium, M (2016) Exploring the crowded central region of ten Galactic globular clusters using EMCCDs Variable star searches and new discoveries. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 588. ISSN 0004-6361

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Abstract

Aims. We aim to obtain time-series photometry of the very crowded central regions of Galactic globular clusters; to obtain better angular resolution thanhas been previously achieved with conventional CCDs on ground-based telescopes; and to complete, or improve, the census of the variable star population in those stellar systems.

Methods. Images were taken using the Danish 1.54-m Telescope at the ESO observatory at La Silla in Chile. The telescope was equipped with an electron-multiplying CCD, and the short-exposure-time images obtained (ten images per second) were stacked using the shift-and-add technique to produce the normal-exposure-time images (minutes). Photometry was performed via difference image analysis. Automatic detection of variable stars in the field was attempted.

Results. The light curves of 12 541 stars in the cores of ten globular clusters were statistically analysed to automatically extract the variable stars. We obtained light curves for 31 previously known variable stars (3 long-period irregular, 2 semi-regular, 20 RR Lyrae, 1 SX Phoenicis, 3 cataclysmic variables, 1 W Ursae Majoris-type and 1 unclassified) and we discovered 30 new variables (16 long-period irregular, 7 semi-regular, 4 RR Lyrae, 1 SX Phoenicis and 2 unclassified). Fluxes and photometric measurements for these stars are available in electronic form through the Strasbourg astronomical Data Center.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: © The Authors, EDP Sciences, final published version of the paper is available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527641
Uncontrolled Keywords: blue stragglers, galaxies, star clusters, globular clusters, RR Lyrae, novae, cataclysmic variables, instrumentation, high angular resolution
Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy
Q Science > QC Physics
Divisions: Faculty of Natural Sciences > School of Life Sciences
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Depositing User: Symplectic
Date Deposited: 14 Jun 2016 09:35
Last Modified: 15 Apr 2019 10:09
URI: https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/1846

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