J/A+A/536/A60 EROS-2 Long Period Variables in LMC (Spano+, 2011)
Long Period Variables in the Large Magellanic Cloud from the EROS-2 survey.
Spano M., Mowlavi N., Eyer L., Burki G., Marquette J.-B., Lecoeur-Taibi I.,
Tisserand P.
<Astron. Astrophys. 536, A60 (2011)>
=2011A&A...536A..60S 2011A&A...536A..60S
ADC_Keywords: Magellanic Clouds ; Stars, variable ; Photometry, UBVRI ;
Photometry, infrared
Keywords: stars: AGB and post-AGB - stars: late-type - stars: carbon -
stars: variables: general - Magellanic Clouds - catalogs
Abstract:
The EROS-2 survey has produced a database of millions of time series
from stars monitored for more than six years, allowing us to classify
some of their sources into different variable star types. Among the
so-called, long period variables (LPVs), which are known to follow
particular sequences in the period-luminosity diagram, we find long
secondary period variables whose variability origin remains a matter
of debate.
We analyze data for the 856864 variable stars that have been
discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) that are present in the
EROS-2 database, to detect, classify, and characterize LPVs.
Description:
Photometric parameters for LPVs discussed in the paper. EROS-2 data
were used to determine mean RE magnitude, mean BE RE color, RE
band amplitude and up to five periods in RE band. 2MASS J, Ks
magnitudes and Spitzer [3.6] magnitude are displayed in case of
cross-correlation with LPVs. The table provides a spectral
classification based on 2MASS and Spitzer data and special remarks.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table3.dat 136 43583 Photometric parameters for Long Period Variables
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See also:
II/246 : 2MASS All-Sky Catalog of Point Sources (Cutri+ 2003)
J/A+A/454/185 : EROS-2 microlensing parameters (Hamadache+, 2006)
J/A+A/495/249 : EROS-2 beat Cepheids in Magellanic Clouds (Marquette+, 2009)
J/AJ/99/784 : IR photometry of LMC long-period variables (Hughes+ 1990)
J/MNRAS/330/137 : LMC long-period red variables VRc observations (Noda+, 2002)
J/ApJ/660/1486 : Variability of LMC semiregular variables (Soszynski+, 2007)
J/AJ/136/1242 : LMC long-period variables from MACHO (Fraser+, 2008)
J/AcA/59/239 : LMC long-period variables VI light curves (Soszynski+, 2009)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 12 A12 --- EROS2 EROS-2 source name (lmNNNNaNNNNN)
14- 21 F8.5 deg RAdeg Right ascension (J2000)
23- 31 F9.5 deg DEdeg Declination (J2000)
33- 38 F6.3 mag Remag EROS-2 Re magnitude
40- 44 F5.3 mag Be-Re EROS-2 Be-Re color index
46- 50 F5.3 mag Ramp EROS-2 Re amplitude
52- 59 F8.3 d Per1 ?=0.000 First fitted period
61- 68 F8.3 d Per2 ?=0.000 Second fitted period
70- 77 F8.3 d Per3 ?=0.000 Third fitted period
79- 86 F8.3 d Per4 ?=0.000 Fourth fitted period
88- 95 F8.3 d Per5 ?=0.000 Fifth fitted period
97 I1 --- Np Total number of periods
99-105 F7.3 mag Jmag ?=999.000 2MASS J magnitude
107-113 F7.3 mag Ksmag ?=999.000 2MASS Ks magnitude
115-121 F7.3 mag 3.6mag ?=999.000 IRAC 3.6 micron band magnitude
123-133 A11 --- Type Spectral type (1)
135-136 I2 --- Flag Note (2)
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Note (1): Spectral type as follows:
RGB = red giant branch
O-rich = O-rich
C-rich = C-rich
Extreme_AGB = extreme asymptotic giant branch
N/A = not attributed
Note (2): Flags as follows:
0 = No harmonics found between sequences D and E within the five
possible periods
1 = Harmonic found between sequences D and E within the five possible periods
91 = Star identified as RGB in Tisserand et al. (2009A&A...501..985T 2009A&A...501..985T)
92 = Star identified as DY Per in Tisserand et al. (2009A&A...501..985T 2009A&A...501..985T)
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Acknowledgements:
Maxime Spano, maxime.spano (at)unige.ch
References:
Tisserand et al., 2009A&A...501..985T 2009A&A...501..985T
(End) Maxime Spano [Geneva Observatory], Patricia Vannier [CDS] 06-Oct-2011