3 papers
astro-ph.SR2026
A search for new symbiotic stars in the Milky Way: Using machine learning techniques applied to photometric databases
V. Contreras Rojas, M. Jaque Arancibia, C. E. Ferreira Lopes +8
Symbiotic stars (SySts) are interacting binaries composed of a red giant transferring material to a hot compact star, typically a white dwarf. Although only about 300 systems are c…
astro-ph.GA2025
Variable stars in the VVV globular clusters III. RR Lyrae stars in the inner Galactic globular clusters
Javier Alonso-GarcÃa, Leigh C. Smith, Jason L. Sanders +13
High reddening near the Galactic plane hampers observations and proper characterization of the globular clusters (GCs) located toward the inner regions of the Milky Way. The VISTA…
astro-ph.SR2025
High-cadence stellar variability studies of RR Lyrae stars with DECam: New multi-band templates
K. Baeza-Villagra, N. Rodriguez-Segovia, M. Catelan +6
We present the most extensive set to date of high-quality RR Lyrae light curve templates in the griz bands, based on time-series observations of the Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey…