The ASAS-SN Catalog of Variable Stars X: Discovery of 116,000 New Variable Stars Using g-band Photometry

Abstract

The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) is the first optical survey to monitor the entire sky, currently with a cadence of $\lesssim 24$ hours down to $g\lesssim 18.5$ mag. ASAS-SN has routinely operated since 2013, collecting $\sim$ 2,000 to over 7,500 epochs of $V$ and $g-$band observations per field to date. This work illustrates the first analysis of ASAS-SN's newer, deeper, higher cadence $g-$band data. From an input source list of $\sim 55$ million isolated sources with $g<18$~mag, we identified $1.5\times 10^6$ variable star candidates using a random forest classifier trained on features derived from $\text{Gaia}$, 2MASS, and AllWISE. Using ASAS-SN $g-$band light curves, and an updated random forest classifier augmented with data from Citizen ASAS-SN, we classified the candidate variables into 8 broad variability types. We present a catalog of $\sim 116,000$ new variable stars with high classification probabilities, including $\sim 111,000$ periodic variables and $\sim 5,000$ irregular variables. We also recovered $\sim 263,000$ known variable stars.

arXiv comment18 pages, 21 figures, 1 table. Submitted to MNRAS. The g-band catalog of variables and their light curves are available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gxcIokRsw1eyPmbPZ0-C8blfRGItSOAu

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