J/MNRAS/469/3688 CSS Periodic Variable Star Catalogue (Drake+, 2017)
The Catalina Surveys Southern Periodic Variable Star Catalogue.
Drake A.J., Djorgovski S.G., Catelan M., Graham M.J., Mahabal A.A.,
Larson S., Christensen E., Torrealba G., Beshore E., McNaught R.H.,
Garradd G., Belokurov V., Koposov S.E.
<Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 469, 3688 (2017)>
=2017MNRAS.469.3688D 2017MNRAS.469.3688D (SIMBAD/NED BibCode)
ADC_Keywords: Milky Way ; Stars, variable ; Photometry
Keywords: stars: variables: general - Galaxy: stellar content -
Galaxy: structure - Galaxy: halo - stars: variables: RR Lyrae
Abstract:
Here we present the results from our analysis of six years of optical
photometry taken by the Siding Spring Survey (SSS). This completes a
search for periodic variable stars within the 30,000 square degrees of
the sky covered by the Catalina Surveys. The current analysis covers
81 million sources with declinations between -20 and -75 degrees with
median magnitudes in the range 11<V<19.5. We find approximately 34,000
new periodic variable stars in addition to the ∼9,000 RR Lyrae that we
previously discovered in SSS data. This brings the total number of
periodic variables identified in Catalina data to ∼110,000. The new
SSS periodic variable stars mainly consist of eclipsing binaries, RR
Lyrae, LPVs, RS CVn stars, δ Scutis and Anomalous Cepheids.
By cross-matching these variable stars with those from prior surveys,
we find that ∼90% of the sources are new discoveries and recover ∼95%
of the known periodic variables in the survey region. For the known
sources, we find excellent agreement between our catalogue and prior
values of luminosity, period and amplitude. However, we find many
variable stars that had previously been misclassified.
Examining the distribution of RR Lyrae, we find a population
associated with the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) that extends more
than 20 degrees from its center confirming recent evidence for the
existence of a very extended stellar halo in the LMC. By combining SSS
photometry with Dark Energy Survey data, we identify additional LMC
halo RR Lyrae, thus confirming the significance of the population.
Description:
In this table we provide the coordinates, magnitudes, periods and
variability types of ∼38,000 periodic variable stars detected in
Southern Catalina Surveys data.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table4.dat 109 37745 Coordinates, periods, CSS magnitudes,
number of points, amplitudes, types
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See also:
B/vsx : AAVSO Int. Variable Star Index VSX (Watson+, 2006-2014)
B/gcvs : General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Samus+ 2007-2013)
J/ApJS/213/9 : Catalina Surveys periodic variable stars (Drake+, 2014)
J/MNRAS/441/715 : Mid-infrared study of RR Lyrae stars (Gavrilchenko+, 2014)
J/MNRAS/446/2251 : Southern Catalina Survey type-ab RR Lyrae (Torrealba+, 2015)
http://crts.caltech.edu : Catalina Transient Survey (CRTS) home page
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 4 A4 --- --- [SSS_]
5- 20 A16 --- CRTS Catalina Sky Survey identifier
(JHHMMSS.ss+DDMMSS; SSS)
22- 23 I2 h RAh Right Ascension (J2000)
25- 26 I2 min RAm Right Ascension (J2000)
28- 32 F5.2 s RAs Right Ascension (J2000)
34 A1 --- DE- Declination sign (J2000)
35- 36 I2 deg DEd Declination (J2000)
38- 39 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (J2000)
41- 44 F4.1 arcsec DEs Declination (J2000)
46- 55 F10.6 d Per [0.065/943.4] Period (fundamental PF)
57- 61 F5.2 mag <Vmag> [3.27/19.5] Average V band magnitude from
AFD (1)
63- 65 I3 --- N [44/367] Number of V Band measurements
67- 71 F5.3 mag Vamp [0.06/4.3] Amplitude from AFD (1)
73- 74 I2 --- Cl [1/13] Numerical class based on Table 3 (2)
77-106 A30 --- Other ? Prior ID
108-109 A2 --- F [I,II] Flag value (3)
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Note (1): As with Drake et al. (2014, Cat. J/ApJS/213/9), the Adaptive Fourier
Decomposition (AFD) method (Torrealba et al. 2015, J/MNRAS/446/2251) was run
on all candidates to determine the best period for each source.
Note (2): Numerical class as follows:
1 = RRab (4325 stars, excludes ∼10500 known SSS RRab's from
Torrealba et al. (2015, Cat. J/MNRAS/446/2251)
2 = RRc (3752 stars)
3 = RRd (502 stars)
4 = Blazhko (171 stars)
5 = Ecl (18803 stars)
6 = EA (4509 stars)
7 = ROT (3636 stars)
8 = LPV (1286 stars)
9 = DS (147 stars)
10 = ACEP (153 stars)
11 = Miscellaneous (298 stars)
12 = Cep-II (153 stars)
13 = LMC-Cep (10 stars)
Note (3): Flas as follows:
I = objects with uncertain period
II = objects where there classification varies from Gavrilchenko et al.
(2014, Cat. J/MNRAS/441/715)
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Acknowledgements:
Andrew Drake, ajd(at)astro.caltech.edu
(End) Patricia Vannier [CDS] 13-Jul-2017