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Euclid: Quick Data Release (Q1) -- Photometric studies of known transients
C. Duffy, E. Cappellaro, M. T. Botticella +174
We report on serendipitous Euclid observations of previously known transients, using the Euclid Q1 data release. By cross-matching with the Transient Name Server (TNS) we identify…
Euclid: High-precision imaging astrometry and photometry from Early Release Observations. I. Internal kinematics of NGC 6397 by combining Euclid and Gaia data
M. Libralato, L. R. Bedin, M. Griggio +175
The instruments at the focus of the Euclid space observatory offer superb, diffraction-limited imaging over an unprecedented (from space) wide field of view of 0.57 deg. This e…
Digging deeper into the dense Galactic globular cluster Terzan 5 with Electron-Multiplying CCDs. Variable star detection and new discoveries
R. Figuera Jaimes, M. Catelan, K. Horne +20
Context. High frame-rate imaging was employed to mitigate the effects of atmospheric turbulence (seeing) in observations of globular cluster Terzan 5. Aims. High-precision time-ser…
Absolute dimensions of solar-type eclipsing binaries. NY Hya: A test for magnetic stellar evolution models
T. C. Hinse, O. Baştürk, J. Southworth +29
The binary star NY Hya is a bright, detached, double-lined eclipsing system with an orbital period of just under five days with two components each nearly identical to the Sun and…
Gaia21blx: Complete resolution of a binary microlensing event in the Galactic disk
P. Rota, V. Bozza, M. Hundertmark +22
Context. Gravitational microlensing is a method that is used to discover planet-hosting systems at distances of several kiloparsec in the Galactic disk and bulge. We present the an…
Precision measurement of a brown dwarf mass in a binary system in the microlensing event OGLE-2019-BLG-0033/MOA-2019-BLG-035
A. Herald, A. Udalski, V. Bozza +89
Context. Brown dwarfs are poorly understood transition objects between stars and planets, with several competing mechanisms having been proposed for their formation. Mass measureme…
An Isolated Stellar-Mass Black Hole Detected Through Astrometric Microlensing
Kailash C. Sahu, Jay Anderson, Stefano Casertano +90
We report the first unambiguous detection and mass measurement of an isolated stellar-mass black hole (BH). We used the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to carry out precise astrometry…
Large-scale changes of the cloud coverage in the Indi Ba,Bb system
J. A. Hitchcock, Ch. Helling, A. Scholz +22
We present the results of 14 nights of \textit{I}-band photometric monitoring of the nearby brown dwarf binary, Indi Ba,Bb. Observations were acquired over 2 months, and total…
Spitzer Microlensing parallax reveals two isolated stars in the Galactic bulge
Weicheng Zang, Yossi Shvartzvald, Tianshu Wang +90
We report the mass and distance measurements of two single-lens events from the 2017 Spitzer microlensing campaign. The ground-based observations yield the detection of finite-sour…
OGLE-2017-BLG-1186: first application of asteroseismology and Gaussian processes to microlensing
Shun-Sheng Li, Weicheng Zang, Andrzej Udalski +102
We present the analysis of the event OGLE-2017-BLG-1186 from the 2017 Spitzer microlensing campaign. This is a remarkable microlensing event because its source is photometrically b…
The mass and age of the first SONG target: the red giant 46 LMi
S. Frandsen, M. Fredslund Andersen, K. Brogaard +12
The Stellar Observation Network Group (SONG) is an initiative to build a worldwide network of 1m telescopes with highprecision radial-velocity spectrographs. Here we analyse the fi…
Microlensing Parallax for OGLE-2017-BLG-0896 Reveals a Counter-Rotating Low-Mass Brown Dwarf
Yossi Shvartzvald, Jennifer C. Yee, Jan Skowron +63
The kinematics of isolated brown dwarfs in the Galaxy, beyond the solar neighborhood, is virtually unknown. Microlensing has the potential to probe this hidden population, as it ca…
First Results From The Hertzsprung Song Telescope: Asteroseismology Of The G5 Subgiant Star {\Mu}Her
F. Grundahl, M. Fredslund Andersen, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard +26
We report the first asteroseismic results obtained with the Hertzsprung SONG Telescope from an extensive high-precision radial-velocity observing campaign of the subgiant muHerculi…
OGLE-2015-BLG-0479LA,B: Binary Gravitational Microlens Characterized by Simultaneous Ground-based and Space-based Observation
C. Han, A. Udalski, A. Gould +60
We present a combined analysis of the observations of the gravitational microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0479 taken both from the ground and by the {\it Spitzer Space Telescope}. T…
Many new variable stars discovered in the core of the globular cluster NGC 6715 (M54) with EMCCD observations
R. Figuera Jaimes, D. M. Bramich, N. Kains +38
We show the benefits of using Electron-Multiplying CCDs and the shift-and-add technique as a tool to minimise the effects of the atmospheric turbulence such as blending between sta…
Spitzer Microlensing Program as a Probe for Globular Cluster Planets. Analysis of OGLE-2015-BLG-0448
Radosław Poleski, Wei Zhu, Grant W. Christie +83
The microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-0448 was observed by Spitzer and lay within the tidal radius of the globular cluster NGC 6558. The event had moderate magnification and was int…
Rotation periods and astrometric motions of the Luhman 16AB brown dwarfs by high-resolution lucky-imaging monitoring
L. Mancini, P. Giacobbe, S. P. Littlefair +33
Context. Photometric monitoring of the variability of brown dwarfs can provide useful information about the structure of clouds in their cold atmospheres. The brown-dwarf binary sy…
Mass Measurements of Isolated Objects from Space-based Microlensing
Wei Zhu, S. Calchi Novati, A. Gould +78
We report on the mass and distance measurements of two single-lens events from the 2015 \emph{Spitzer} microlensing campaign. With both finite-source effect and microlens parallax…
Spitzer Microlens Measurement of a Massive Remnant in a Well-Separated Binary
Y. Shvartzvald, A. Udalski, A. Gould +63
We report the detection and mass measurement of a binary lens OGLE-2015-BLG-1285La,b, with the more massive component having (80% probability). A main-sequence…
A Census of Variability in Globular Cluster M68 (NGC 4590)
N. Kains, A. Arellano Ferro, R. Figuera Jaimes +32
We analyse 20 nights of CCD observations in the V and I bands of the globular cluster M68 (NGC 4590), using these to detect variable objects. We also obtained electron-multiplying…
Searching for variable stars in the cores of five metal rich globular clusters using EMCCD observations
Jesper Skottfelt, D. M. Bramich, R. Figuera Jaimes +31
In this paper, we present the analysis of time-series observations from 2013 and 2014 of five metal rich ([Fe/H] -1) globular clusters: NGC~6388, NGC~6441, NGC~6528, NGC~6638,…
A detailed census of variable stars in the globular cluster NGC 6333 (M9) from CCD differential photometry
A. Arellano Ferro, D. M. Bramich, R. Figuera Jaimes +37
We report CCD and time-series photometry of the globular cluster NGC 6333 (M9). The technique of difference image analysis has been used, which enables photometric precisio…
Estimating the parameters of globular cluster M 30 (NGC 7099) from time-series photometry
N. Kains, D. M. Bramich, A. Arellano Ferro +47
We present the analysis of 26 nights of V and I time-series observations from 2011 and 2012 of the globular cluster M 30 (NGC 7099). We used our data to search for variable stars i…
EMCCD photometry reveals two new variable stars in the crowded central region of the globular cluster NGC 6981
Jesper Skottfelt, D. M. Bramich, R. Figuera Jaimes +33
Two previously unknown variable stars in the crowded central region of the globular cluster NGC 6981 are presented. The observations were made using the Electron Multiplying CCD (E…