We have obtained the first UBVR photoelectric light curves for a recently discovered eclipsing binary with a period of 9.33d and an appreciable eccentricity (e=0.08). We have used these data to determine the photometric elements of the system for a model with two spherical stars with linear limb darkening. The high accuracy of the observations enabled determination of the absolute parameters of the components using available calibrations. The masses of the components are 1.28 and 1.08M_{sun}_, and their ages are two billion years. The present orientation of the orbital ellipse is unfavorable for studies of the apsidal rotation, which is essentially due to relativistic effects.
T Tauri stars exhibit variability on all timescales, whose origin is still debated. On WTTS the variability is fairly simple and attributed to long-lived, ubiquitous cool spots. We investigate the long term variability of WTTS, extending up to 20 years in some cases, characterize it statistically and discuss its implications for our understanding of these stars. We have obtained a unique, homogeneous database of photometric measurements for WTTS extending up to 20-years. It contains more than 9000 UBVR observations of 48 WTTS. All the data were collected at Mount Maidanak Observatory (Uzbekistan) and they constitute the longest homogeneous record of accurate WTTS photometry ever assembled. Definitive rotation periods for 35 of the 48 stars are obtained. Phased light curves over 5 to 20 seasons are now available for analysis. Light curve shapes, amplitudes and colour variations are obtained for this sample and various behaviors exhibited, discussed and interpreted. Our main conclusion is that most WTTS have very stable long term variability with relatively small changes of amplitude or mean light level. The long term variability seen reflects modulation in the cold spot distributions. Photometric periods are stable over many years, and the phase of minimum light can be stable as well for several years. On the long term, spot properties do change in subtle ways, leading to secular variations in the shape and amplitudes of the light curves.
We introduce a data set of 142 mostly late-type spiral, irregular, and peculiar (interacting or merging) nearby galaxies observed in UBVR at the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), and we present an analysis of their radial color gradients.
A catalogue of photoelectric stellar magnitudes and colours in the UBVR Johnson system in 47 sky areas with galaxies near the Main Galactic Meridian is presented. The catalogue includes 1141 stars within the V magnitude interval 4.5-15.5mag. The rms errors are +/-0.014, +/-0.026, +/-0.012, +/-0.016mag for stellar magnitudes V and colours (U-B), (B-V), (V-R), respectively. The catalogue contains accurate equatorial coordinates (alpha, delta)_1950.0_, too.
The CCD observations of a sky area in the NGC 6913 cluster were performed with the 2-meter telescope of the Terskol Peak Observatory (Northern Caucasus, Russian Federation). The magnitudes and coordinates of stars down to V=20mag were determined for a 7'x5' field. The equatorial coordinates of stars were obtained in the reference system of the USNO A2.0 catalog (Cat. <I/252>) with an accuracy of 0.35". The relationship between the instrumental photometric system and the Johnson UBVR system was derived.
Table 2 presents standard broad band U, B, V, R photoelectric photometry of AX Persei. Each value represents the average of the observations during a night. The uncertainty of these night-means is of a few x 0.001mag in the B, V and R bands, and up to 0.02mag in the U band. Table 3 presents observed spectrophotometric parameters of the spectrum: the line fluxes, fluxes in the local continuum and the radial velocities.
Photoelectric UBVR photometry of 2 eclipsing variables are presented. Each binary was observed between 1989 and 1995 with the 60 cm telescopes at the Maidanak Observatory (Uzbekistan).
We present extensive UBVR photometry of the Galactic globular cluster (GGC) NGC 6712 obtained with the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) which reaches down to 2 mag below the main-sequence turn-off and allows us for the first time to determine the age of this cluster.
In this paper we present the Johnson-Cousins UBVR CCD photometry of the stars in King 2, an old open cluster towards the galactic anticenter. We have obtained the colour-magnitude diagram, the colour excess, the reddening, an estimate of the metallicity, and the distance modulus. The comparison of the observational colour-magnitude diagram with the theoretical simulations based on stellar models with convective overshoot shows that a major revision of the model structure is required. To this aim, we explore the possibility that the formulation of convective overshoot for stars in the mass range 1 to 2M_{sun}_ ought to be different from the one currently in use. The point of major uncertainty that we see to affect the stars in this domain is whether or not convective overshoot may erode the gradient in molecular weight in the regions surrounding the convective core. We find that models, in which this is not allowed to occur, better fit the overall morphology of the colour-magnitude diagram of King 2. In addition to this, analyzing the width of the main sequence band we suggest that a significant fraction of the stars are members of binary systems, and evaluate the range spanned by their mass ratios. Finally, we derive the luminosity function and the mass function for the main sequence stars of the cluster.
