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NL 2011-2 Backup
Newsletter 2011-3 August 2011 www.variablestarssouth.org Hawkes Bay Astronomical Society members at the site of their partially completed Pukerangi roll-off observatory. Photo by Graham Palmer and provided by Col Bembrick. Col’s recollections of the 2011 RASNZ conference hosted by the Hawkes Bay Astronomical Society appear on page 11. Contents From the director - Tom Richards ........................................................................................................................... 2 Variables from Linden – Towards the Hub - Alan Plummer ................................................................. 4 BL Telescopii - Observations of the 2011 eclipse - Peter F Williams ............................................ 7 A DSLR bright Cepheid project - Can you help? - Stan Walker ........................................................ 9 RASNZ Conference Napier, 2011 - Col Bembrick ................................................................................... 11 Recurrent Novae - Stan Walker .............................................................................................................................. 13 Southern Binaries DSLR Project - Mark Blackford .................................................................................. 17 Equatorial Eclipsing Binaries Project - Tom Richards ............................................................................ 19 SPADES Report - Tom Richards ........................................................................................................................... -
Dramatic Change in the Boundary Layer in the Symbiotic Recurrent
Astronomy & Astrophysics manuscript no. tcrb˙submitted˙to˙arxiv © ESO 2018 July 4, 2018 Dramatic change in the boundary layer in the symbiotic recurrent nova T Coronae Borealis. G. J. M. Luna,1,2,3, K. Mukai,4,5 J. L. Sokoloski,6 T. Nelson,7 P. Kuin,8 A. Segreto,9 G. Cusumano,9 M. Jaque Arancibia,10,11 and N. E. Nu˜nez,11 1 CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Astronom´ıa y F´ısica del Espacio, (IAFE), Av. Inte. G¨uiraldes 2620, C1428ZAA, Buenos Aires, Argentina e-mail: [email protected] 2 Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Buenos Aires, Argentina 3 Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche, Av. Calchaqu´ı6200, F. Varela, Buenos Aires, Argentina 4 CRESST and X-ray Astrophysics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA 5 Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA 6 Columbia Astrophysics Lab 550 W120th St., 1027 Pupin Hall, MC 5247 Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA 7 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260 8 University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, RH5 6NT, U.K. 9 INAF - Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Via U. La Malfa 153, I-90146 Palermo, Italy 10 Departamento de F´ısica y Astronom´ıa, Universidad de La Serena, Av. Cisternas 1200, La Serena, Chile. 11 Instituto de Ciencias Astron´omicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio (ICATE-CONICET), Av. Espa˜na Sur 1512, J5402DSP, San Juan, Argentina ABSTRACT A sudden increase in the rate at which material reaches the most internal part of an accretion disk, i.e. -
Catching Stellar Mergers at Work with the Very Large Telescope
Astronomical Science Catching Stellar Mergers at Work with the Very Large Telescope Interferometer Florentin Millour1 ing the inner hundreds of astronomical The 2002 eruption has been interpreted 1 Eric Lagadec units, exactly where discs and com- as the merger of a star of ~ 8 MA with a Orsola de Marco2 panions occur and are intimately related subsolar mass star (Tylenda & Soker, Dipankar P. K. Banerjee3 to the evolution of the stars. Interferome- 2006). Djamel Mékarnia1 try is ideally suited to resolve discs in the Alain Spang1 core of nebulae around stars of a range V838 Mon is embedded in a dense, large- Olivier Chesneau1† of masses from low to high. Here we pre- scale environment that was lit up by the sent a snapshot of two such objects — light echoes resulting from the 2002 erup- the R Coronae Borealis (RCB) star V838 tion (Bond et al., 2003), and potentially 1 Laboratoire Lagrange, UMR 7293, Univ. Cen and the eruptive variable V838 Mon contaminates observations of the central Nice Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS, Observa- — highlighting the seminal contribution star. High angular resolution studies with a toire de la Côte d’Azur, Nice, France of the astronomer Olivier Chesneau, who small field of view of a few arcseconds are 2 Department of Physics & Astronomy, passed away earlier this year. an asset in isolating the central regions Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia from the extended dusty cloud. A great 3 Astronomy & Astrophysics Division, The R Coronae Borealis stars are hydro- advantage of optical interferometry studies Physical Research Laboratory, gen-deficient carbon-rich supergiants, is thus to isolate the measurements from Navrangpura, India best known for their spectacular declines the extended environment. -
Photometry of R Coronae Borealis Stars During the Recovery Phase of Their Declines
CSIRO PUBLISHING www.publish.csiro.au/journals/pasa Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2003, 20, 159–164 Photometry of R Coronae Borealis Stars during the Recovery Phase of their Declines Lj. Skuljan, P. L. Cottrell, A. C. Gilmore and P. M. Kilmartin Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Received 2002 July 22, accepted 2003 January 14 Abstract: The photometric observations (UBVRI) of nine cool R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars have been collected at Mt John University Observatory, New Zealand, over a period of twelve years. The analysis of the magnitude–colour and colour–colour diagrams for the recovery phase demonstrates that all declines exhibit a similar asymptotic approach to their normal brightness. Declines return to maximum brightness along a line with essentially the same slope that does not depend on the star or the depth of the decline. Assuming a uniform obscuration of the photosphere by the dust cloud during the recovery phase, the extinction properties of the material were determined. The ratio of total to selective extinction (RV) for the RCB stars in our sample is in the range 2.5 to 4.6, indicating that the obscuring dust has extinction properties similar to that of the interstellar dust. Observations have been compared with the theoretical extinction curves for different sorts of grains. Keywords: stars: variables: R Coronae Borealis — methods: data analysis 1 Introduction 2 Observations The R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars are hydrogen- The photometric observations (UBV and UBVRI) of the deficient carbon-rich supergiants, with a characteristic nine RCB stars (Table 1) have been obtained at Mt John pattern of variability. -
Astronomy 111 Recitation #1
Astronomy 142 Recitation #10 5 April 2013 Formulas to remember Leavitt's Law (classical Cepheid variables): MV =−2.77 log Π− 1.69 d mMVV−=5log 10 pc Hubble’s Law (galaxies in the uniform Universal expansion): vr = Hd0 -1 -1 -1 -1 H0 = 74.2 km sec Mpc= 22.8 km sec Mly Redshift z =(λλ − 00) λ SN Ia magnitude(dereddened) 00 d mMVV=++5log 25 Mpc 0 MV = −19.14 dE dm Black hole accretion Lc= = εε2 , ≈ 0.1. dt dt Eddington luminosity 25 4 3GMmpe m c 2eL LL<= ; M> E 4 25 23e Gmpe m c Workshop problems Warning! The workshop problems you will do in groups in Recitation are a crucial part of the process of building up your command of the concepts important in AST 142 and subsequent courses. Do not, therefore, do your work on scratch paper and discard it. Better for each of you to keep your own account of each problem, in some sort of bound notebook. 1. (Team discussion) A type Ia supernova happens when a the mass of a white dwarf, accreting material from a close-by normal or giant stellar companions, approaches the Stoner-Anderson- Chandrasekhar mass, MM= 1.4 . Review your previous experience with degenerate stars and answer the following questions, in order. a. If mass is added to a white dwarf, does its radius get larger, smaller, or stay the same? Is this different from what happens when mass is added to an ordinary, nondegenerate star? 2013 University of Rochester 1 All rights reserved Astronomy 142, Spring 2013 b. -
Stars and Their Spectra: an Introduction to the Spectral Sequence Second Edition James B
Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-89954-3 - Stars and Their Spectra: An Introduction to the Spectral Sequence Second Edition James B. Kaler Index More information Star index Stars are arranged by the Latin genitive of their constellation of residence, with other star names interspersed alphabetically. Within a constellation, Bayer Greek letters are given first, followed by Roman letters, Flamsteed numbers, variable stars arranged in traditional order (see Section 1.11), and then other names that take on genitive form. Stellar spectra are indicated by an asterisk. The best-known proper names have priority over their Greek-letter names. Spectra of the Sun and of nebulae are included as well. Abell 21 nucleus, see a Aurigae, see Capella Abell 78 nucleus, 327* ε Aurigae, 178, 186 Achernar, 9, 243, 264, 274 z Aurigae, 177, 186 Acrux, see Alpha Crucis Z Aurigae, 186, 269* Adhara, see Epsilon Canis Majoris AB Aurigae, 255 Albireo, 26 Alcor, 26, 177, 241, 243, 272* Barnard’s Star, 129–130, 131 Aldebaran, 9, 27, 80*, 163, 165 Betelgeuse, 2, 9, 16, 18, 20, 73, 74*, 79, Algol, 20, 26, 176–177, 271*, 333, 366 80*, 88, 104–105, 106*, 110*, 113, Altair, 9, 236, 241, 250 115, 118, 122, 187, 216, 264 a Andromedae, 273, 273* image of, 114 b Andromedae, 164 BDþ284211, 285* g Andromedae, 26 Bl 253* u Andromedae A, 218* a Boo¨tis, see Arcturus u Andromedae B, 109* g Boo¨tis, 243 Z Andromedae, 337 Z Boo¨tis, 185 Antares, 10, 73, 104–105, 113, 115, 118, l Boo¨tis, 254, 280, 314 122, 174* s Boo¨tis, 218* 53 Aquarii A, 195 53 Aquarii B, 195 T Camelopardalis, -
HET Publication Report HET Board Meeting 3/4 December 2020 Zoom Land
HET Publication Report HET Board Meeting 3/4 December 2020 Zoom Land 1 Executive Summary • There are now 420 peer-reviewed HET publications – Fifteen papers published in 2019 – As of 27 November, nineteen published papers in 2020 • HET papers have 29363 citations – Average of 70, median of 39 citations per paper – H-number of 90 – 81 papers have ≥ 100 citations; 175 have ≥ 50 cites • Wide angle surveys account for 26% of papers and 35% of citations. • Synoptic (e.g., planet searches) and Target of Opportunity (e.g., supernovae and γ-ray bursts) programs have produced 47% of the papers and 47% of the citations, respectively. • Listing of the HET papers (with ADS links) is given at http://personal.psu.edu/dps7/hetpapers.html 2 HET Program Classification Code TypeofProgram Examples 1 ToO Supernovae,Gamma-rayBursts 2 Synoptic Exoplanets,EclipsingBinaries 3 OneorTwoObjects HaloofNGC821 4 Narrow-angle HDF,VirgoCluster 5 Wide-angle BlazarSurvey 6 HETTechnical HETQueue 7 HETDEXTheory DarkEnergywithBAO 8 Other HETOptics Programs also broken down into “Dark Time”, “Light Time”, and “Other”. 3 Peer-reviewed Publications • There are now 420 journal papers that either use HET data or (nine cases) use the HET as the motivation for the paper (e.g., technical papers, theoretical studies). • Except for 2005, approximately 22 HET papers were published each year since 2002 through the shutdown. A record 44 papers were published in 2012. • In 2020 a total of fifteen HET papers appeared; nineteen have been published to date in 2020. • Each HET partner has published at least 14 papers using HET data. • Nineteen papers have been published from NOAO time. -
Uv Ceti Type Variable Stars Presented in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars
IX BULGARIAN-SERBIAN ASTRONOMICAL CONFERENCE: . ASTROINFORMATICS . Sofia, 2 – 4 July, 2014 UV CETI TYPE VARIABLE STARS PRESENTED IN THE GENERAL CATALOGUE OF VARIABLE STARS Katya Tsvetkova Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Sofia, 2 – 4 July, 2014 IX BULGARIAN-SERBIAN ASTRONOMICAL CONFERENCE: . ASTROINFORMATICS . Abstract We present the place and the status of UV Ceti type variable stars in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS4, edition April 2013) having in view the improved typological classification, which is accepted in the already prepared GCVS4.2 edition. The improved classification is based on understanding the major astrophysical reasons for variability. The distribution statistics is done on the basis of the data from the GCVS4 and addition of data from the 80th Name List of Variable Stars - altogether 47 967 variable stars with determined type of variability. The class of the eruptive variable stars includes variables showing irregular or semi-regular brightness variations as a consequence of violent processes and flares occurring in their chromospheres and coronae and accompanied by shell events or mass outflow as stellar winds and/or by interaction with the surrounding interstellar matter. In this class the type of the UV Ceti stars is referred together with the types of Irregular variables (Herbig Ae/Be stars; T Tau type stars (classical and weak- line ones), connected with diffuse nebulae, or RW Aurigae type stars without such connection; FU Orionis type; YY Orionis type; Yellow -
Variable Star
Variable star A variable star is a star whose brightness as seen from Earth (its apparent magnitude) fluctuates. This variation may be caused by a change in emitted light or by something partly blocking the light, so variable stars are classified as either: Intrinsic variables, whose luminosity actually changes; for example, because the star periodically swells and shrinks. Extrinsic variables, whose apparent changes in brightness are due to changes in the amount of their light that can reach Earth; for example, because the star has an orbiting companion that sometimes Trifid Nebula contains Cepheid variable stars eclipses it. Many, possibly most, stars have at least some variation in luminosity: the energy output of our Sun, for example, varies by about 0.1% over an 11-year solar cycle.[1] Contents Discovery Detecting variability Variable star observations Interpretation of observations Nomenclature Classification Intrinsic variable stars Pulsating variable stars Eruptive variable stars Cataclysmic or explosive variable stars Extrinsic variable stars Rotating variable stars Eclipsing binaries Planetary transits See also References External links Discovery An ancient Egyptian calendar of lucky and unlucky days composed some 3,200 years ago may be the oldest preserved historical document of the discovery of a variable star, the eclipsing binary Algol.[2][3][4] Of the modern astronomers, the first variable star was identified in 1638 when Johannes Holwarda noticed that Omicron Ceti (later named Mira) pulsated in a cycle taking 11 months; the star had previously been described as a nova by David Fabricius in 1596. This discovery, combined with supernovae observed in 1572 and 1604, proved that the starry sky was not eternally invariable as Aristotle and other ancient philosophers had taught. -
Uva-DARE (Digital Academic Repository)
UvA-DARE (Digital Academic Repository) Advanced evolution of helium stars and massive close binaries Habets, G.M.H.J. Publication date 1985 Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Habets, G. M. H. J. (1985). Advanced evolution of helium stars and massive close binaries. General rights It is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulations If you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: https://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. UvA-DARE is a service provided by the library of the University of Amsterdam (https://dare.uva.nl) Download date:28 Sep 2021 IIIA.. THE EVOLUTION OF A SINGLE AND A BINARY HELIUM STAR OF 2.5 M^ UP TO NEONN IGNITION; CASE BB MASS TRANSFER. Suanary. Thee evolution of a single helium star of 2.5 M0 is calculated from the heliumm Zero Age main sequence up to off-centre neon ignition. In the carbon- shelll burning phase the 2.5 M0 helium star becomes a red giant and possibly enterss the Cepheid pulsational instability strip. -
Chaos, Eruptions and Root-Convergence in One-Dimensional Maps Based on Metallic-Sequence Generating Functions
Chaos, eruptions and root-convergence in one-dimensional maps based on metallic-sequence generating functions L. Aravind 1 Introduction Over the years we have observed or encountered certain natural phenomena that are char- acterized by rare, sudden eruptive behavior occurring against a background of very low amplitude fluctuations. We first encountered this in astronomy: most remarkably, inthe constellation of Corona Borealis there are two stars that exhibit this kind of behavior albeit in opposite directions. There is T Coronae Borealis, which for most part remains fluctuat- ing rather dimly in a narrow magnitude band between 9.9 and 10.6, well below naked eye visibility, and then once in a century or so (e.g. in 1866 and 1946) explosively blazes forth at magnitude of 2-3 ( ≈ 1000× brighter) changing the shape of the visible constellation. On the other side, we have the equally charismatic R Coronae Borealis, which for most part very mildly fluctuates around the magnitude of 6 at barely naked eye visibility andthen suddenly once in several years suddenly drops to the magnitude of 14 or lower ( ≈ 1500× dimmer), beyond the reach of even a typical amateur telescope. It has become increasingly clear that versions of such behaviors are observed across the domains of science. In biology, recent studies in foraging behavior have shown that diverse animals follow a pattern of foraging movements, which are characterized by routine small movements punctuated by the rare large movements. This kind of behavior allows the escaping of local resource limitations by episodic saltations to reach distant resource-rich regions. An unrelated phenomenon, earthquakes, also displays similar behavior, where small low-magnitude tremors are punctuated by rare episodes of major earthquakes with noticeable effects. -
Nucleosynthesis in R Coronae Borealis Stars
Nucleosynthesis in R Coronae Borealis Stars Richard Longland Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Grup d’Astronomia i Astrofísica June 13th, 2013 Richard Longland (UPC) RCrB Nucleosynthesis June 13th, 2013 1 / 12 Outline 1 Introduction 2 Prior Evolution Nucleosynthesis 3 Merger Nucleosynthesis 4 Conclusions Richard Longland (UPC) RCrB Nucleosynthesis June 13th, 2013 2 / 12 R Coronae Borealis (HIP 77442) I Yellow supergiant stars I Sudden fading episodes up I Peculiarities discovered in 1795 to 9 magnitudes I “Reverse Nova” I No atmospheric hydrogen I Fades periodically to magnitude 14 Don’t look up! Richard Longland (UPC) RCrB Nucleosynthesis June 13th, 2013 3 / 12 Don’t look up! R Coronae Borealis (HIP 77442) I Yellow supergiant stars I Sudden fading episodes up I Peculiarities discovered in 1795 to 9 magnitudes I “Reverse Nova” I No atmospheric hydrogen I Fades periodically to magnitude 14 Richard Longland (UPC) RCrB Nucleosynthesis June 13th, 2013 3 / 12 Final-Flash I Dying AGB star I Final, strong, helium-shell flash I Remaining envelope blown away I Inner-regions revealed Double Degenerate I CO + He white dwarfs merge I He white dwarf disrupted and accreted I Helium burning commences, accreted material expands R CrB stars To explain: Hydrogen deficiency C, N, O, Ne, F, Li (and others) enrichment [X] = log(X=X ) 12C/13C> 500 No known R CrB binary Jeffery, S et al. MNRAS 414 (2011) 3599 Richard Longland (UPC) RCrB Nucleosynthesis June 13th, 2013 4 / 12 R CrB stars To explain: Hydrogen deficiency C, N, O, Ne, F, Li (and others) enrichment [X] = log(X=X ) 12C/13C> 500 No known R CrB binary Final-Flash I Dying AGB star I Final, strong, helium-shell flash I Remaining envelope blown away I Inner-regions revealed Double Degenerate I CO + He white dwarfs merge I He white dwarf disrupted and accreted I Helium burning commences, accreted material expands Jeffery, S et al.