A photometric study of the Bright Cloud B in Sagittarius^*,**,***

VIII. 1061 new variable stars

¹ Observatoire Astronomique de Lyon (CRAL), F-69561 Saint Genis Laval Cedex, France
² Centre d'Analyse des Images CNRS/INSU/MAMA, Observatoire de Paris, France
³ Observatoire de Paris (DEMIRM)/URA 336 du CNRS, 77 Avenue Denfert-Rochereau, F-75014 Paris, France

Send offprint request to: A. Terzan

Received: 8 August 1996
Accepted: 18 October 1996

Abstract

We present a catalogue of positions and photographic R magnitudes at observed maximum and minimum brightness for 1061 variable stars newly detected in the direction of the Bright Cloud B in Sagittarius. The limiting R magnitude of the survey is about 18. Most of these stars are long period variables. Taking into account the previously published lists (Terzan et al. 1982, 1988, 1991), the total number of new variable objects discovered in the surveyed 100 square degree field amounts to 4430.