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3. Light curves and photometric properties of variables

In Table 1 (click here) we list some basic information for these variables indentified in fields 5139A-F which were not discussed in Papers I or II. The OGLEGC ID numbers assigned to variables are continuation of the sequence from Papers I and II. Some fraction of variables was observed in more than one field. For such stars multiple entries are given in Table 1 (click here). Hence, Table 1 (click here) lists in fact light curves which were obtained for variables OGLEGC71-211. The field in which a given variable was observed is listed in Cols. 2 and 10. The rectangular coordinates (X, Y) correspond to position of a given variable on a template image for a given field. The list of template images as well as instruction how to retrieve them can be found in Papers I and II. The periods listed in Table 1 (click here) were obtained using ANOVA statistics (Schwarzenberg-Czerny 1996). For each light curve we list also the intensity averaged V magnitude, the full amplitude of light variations and the magnitude at maximum light. For stars with multiple entries in Table 1 (click here) the values of tex2html_wrap_inline1029 or tex2html_wrap_inline1031 show field-to-field differences on the level of a few hundredth's of magnitude. These differences reflect mostly some uncertainties of the zero points of the photometry which were introduced by the particular method of reduction. These uncertainties prevented us from combining photometry obtained in different fields for the same variables. For some of variables real and pronounced changes of light curve amplitudes are observed. In fact Martin (1938) was first to note such changes for several RR Lyr stars in tex2html_wrap_inline895 Cen. Table 2 (click here) gives equatorial coordinates for variables OGLEGC71-211. We cross-correlated our list of variables with the Hogg (1973) catalogue. The ID numbers from Hogg are listed in Cols. 2, 6 and 10 of Table 2 (click here). For 33 variables we could not find their counterparts in the Hogg catalogue. On the other hand we failed to obtain photometry for several known variables which were present in the monitored fields. The most common reason for such a failure was a presence of badly saturated stellar images close to images of variables. It has to be noted that our main goal was to look for main sequence binaries. Therefore the duration of exposures was not optimal for photometry of relatively bright variables such as RR Lyr stars or Pop. II Cepheids.

In Fig. 1 (click here) we show light curves for variables whose luminosities place them in the tex2html_wrap_inline1035 diagram on or near the level of the horizontal branch of the cluster. Only one light curve was plotted for each of variables although for many of them more than one light curve was obtained (see Table 1 (click here)). The well known spread of average magnitudes of tex2html_wrap_inline895 Cen RR Lyr stars can be easily noted in Fig. 1 (click here). No one of RR Lyr stars from our sample showed evidence for being a RRd type variable (RRd stars pulsate simultaneously in the fundamental and in the first overtone mode).

The sample of newly identified variables is dominated by objects with relatively low amplitudes. Moreover a large fraction of these stars have periods close either to 1/2 d or to 1/3 d. The period of OGLEGC162 is uncertain. The power spectrum for the light curve obtained in 1993 (field 5139B) shows peaks for periods 0.44 d, 0.28 d and 0.22 d. The data obtained in 1994 (field 5139BC) are best phased with period 0.268 d. The light curve of this variable is unstable on a time scale of days. Another new low-amplitude variable with unstable light curve is OGLEGC171 for which we adopted P=0.500 d. The period of this variable is rather firmly established - only one significant peak was detected in the power spectrum.

The light curves for 2 faintest and 6 brightest variables from our sample are plotted in Fig. 2 (click here). OGLEGC172 is a background RR Lyr star located well behind the cluster. The nature of OGLEGC173 is less certain. The color of this faint variable is rather red. With V-I=1.50 it is located about 0.5 mag to the red of upper main-sequence of the cluster in the tex2html_wrap_inline1035 diagram. The variable was first erroneously classified as a field RR Lyr star with a period of about 0.77 day and therefore it was not included in Paper II with other faint variables from field 5139D. The actual period of variability of OGLEGC173 is either 3.32 days or 6.64 days. The possible classes of variables to which OGLEGC173 may belong include the so called "spotted variables" and ellipsoidal variables. The phased light curve presented in Fig. 2 (click here) shows a bump near tex2html_wrap_inline1051. This feature corresponds to a flare-like event which occurred on tex2html_wrap_inline1053. The data from that particular night were discarded while determining a period of the variable. Further observations are needed to solve questions about a nature and membership status of OGLEGC173.

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Figure 2: Phased light curves for 6 brightest and 2 faintest variables from the present sample

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Figure 3: Period versus average V magnitude for bright pulsating variables observed by OGLE in tex2html_wrap_inline895 Cen. Objects classified as BL Her stars or anomalous Cepheids are marked with open circles

Six bright stars whose light curves are plotted in Fig. 2 (click here) have average magnitudes placing them above horizontal branch of tex2html_wrap_inline895 Cen. Variables V60 = OGLEGC103 and V61 = OGLEGC164 are classified as Pop. II Cepheids of BL Her subtype (eg. Nemec et al. 1994). V52 = OGLEGC116 has a period tex2html_wrap_inline1061. That value is a bit shorter than the 0.75 day short period limit adopted for Pop. II Cepheids (Wallerstein & Cox 1984). However, luminosity of this star is appropriate for BL Her variables. Properties of BL Her type variables were recently discussed in some details by Nemec et al. (1994) and Sandage et al. (1994). Another BL Her star included in our sample is OGLEGC72 = V92. Variables OGLEGC73 = V68 and OGLEGC174 = V84 are classified as anomalous Cepheids (e.g. Nemec et al. 1994). The light curves of OGLEGC72, OGLEGC73 and OGLEGC174 are presented in Fig. 1 (click here). Bright variables OGLEGC123, OGLEGC156 and OGLEGC161 are new discoveries. For all these stars our data indicate periods very close to 1 day which may explain why they were undetected in the previous surveys. Moreover, OGLEGC156 and OGLEGC161 show variations with full amplitudes not exceeding 0.2 mag in the V-band. We consider periods determined for these variables as preliminary. Additional data are needed to settle this problem with confidence. All 3 new variables belong probably either to BL Her stars or to anomalous Cepheids.

In Fig. 3 (click here) we present "period" vs. "average magnitude" diagram for all but 2 faintest stars listed in Table 2 (click here).

 

ID

IDtex2html_wrap_inline1065tex2html_wrap_inline1067IDIDtex2html_wrap_inline1065tex2html_wrap_inline1067IDIDtex2html_wrap_inline1065tex2html_wrap_inline1067
OGLEGCHoggdegdegOGLEGCHoggdegdegOGLEGCHoggdegdeg

71

- 201.51720 -47.36250 118 139 201.65717 -47.45976 165 49 201.53207 -47.63214
72 92 201.56204 -47.35367 119 137 201.63132 -47.45121 166 125 201.70382 -47.68437
73 68 201.55338 -47.32640 120 26 201.59838 -47.44988 167 - 201.77620 -47.78975
74 54 201.59794 -47.31316 121 - 201.66737 -47.44325 168 124 201.72642 -47.65212
75 130 201.54138 -47.22778 122 - 201.64628 -47.43636 169 123 201.71274 -47.62034
76 66 201.63813 -47.37321 123 - 201.63128 -47.43209 170 38 201.76341 -47.60842
77 67 201.61904 -47.31292 124 15 201.61282 -47.41060 171 - 201.86329 -47.79232
78 35 201.72260 -47.37582 125 12 201.61321 -47.40177 172 - 201.90180 -47.77778
79 76 201.73895 -47.33528 126 11 201.62727 -47.38380 173 - 201.24356 -47.60229
80 77 201.83780 -47.36797 127 116 201.64777 -47.46860 174 84 201.19769 -47.49903
81 - 201.81487 -47.35799 128 113 201.73459 -47.52990 175 127 201.33068 -47.47712
82 32 201.76454 -47.36050 129 41 201.75577 -47.51718 176 85 201.27703 -47.39277
83 83 201.78576 -47.35921 130 145 201.71342 -47.51906 177 - 201.41680 -47.58013
84 75 201.83222 -47.31300 131 - 201.73556 -47.50163 178 95 201.35352 -47.48137
85 74 201.78016 -47.29286 132 - 201.69624 -47.50111 179 45 201.37848 -47.45578
86 36 201.79213 -47.25829 133 109 201.75638 -47.49353 180 46 201.37591 -47.43101
87 7 201.75377 -47.23348 134 - 201.67875 -47.43236 181 168 201.46996 -47.53410
88 44 201.59329 -47.57653 135 158 201.68880 -47.51114 182 33 201.46532 -47.48486
89 115 201.55115 -47.57161 136 111 201.70414 -47.47784 183 9 201.49921 -47.43988
90 34 201.52988 -47.55298 137 99 201.75887 -47.46361 184 3 201.48478 -47.43152
91 128 201.57385 -47.50368 138 157 201.69355 -47.45483 185 47 201.48627 -47.40324
92 30 201.56631 -47.49896 139 - 201.72635 -47.45242 186 - 201.48890 -47.37939
93 59 201.57670 -47.49638 140 153 201.70686 -47.43988 187 50 201.47532 -47.45986
94 117 201.58286 -47.48924 141 90 201.69048 -47.43980 188 13 201.49339 -47.42256
95 - 201.53425 -47.50902 142 166 201.69154 -47.43755 189 24 201.90982 -47.57093
96 - 201.55463 -47.43610 143 89 201.69145 -47.43357 190 22 201.92110 -47.56900
97 21 201.54647 -47.43307 144 87 201.73941 -47.42650 191 - 201.86920 -47.52673
98 10 201.52913 -47.41021 145 155 201.72345 -47.41182 192 19 201.87601 -47.46823
99 4 201.55384 -47.40527 146 23 201.69363 -47.41093 193 82 201.89860 -47.44185
100 58 201.55432 -47.40089 147 51 201.67741 -47.40594 194 101 201.87641 -47.49769
101 5 201.57633 -47.38683 148 - 201.68216 -47.38002 195 81 201.90295 -47.41346
102 122 201.62631 -47.55063 149 - 201.70715 -47.46032 196 - 201.83594 -47.39968
103 60 201.64876 -47.54670 150 112 201.72602 -47.50647 197 39 201.99892 -47.57849
104 120 201.60633 -47.54689 151 70 201.86581 -47.56204 198 105 201.94182 -47.54570
105 121 201.61735 -47.53075 152 - 201.81882 -47.55502 199 8 201.95184 -47.47243
106 119 201.65951 -47.52168 153 102 201.84206 -47.50355 200 18 201.93784 -47.41577
107 40 201.60228 -47.51287 154 107 201.80847 -47.51618 201 104 202.03213 -47.56249
108 - 201.66516 -47.50784 155 - 201.74977 -47.45815 202 - 202.04299 -47.39660
109 118 201.66890 -47.50531 156 - 201.77052 -47.45302 203 - 202.01447 -47.35774
110 131 201.62518 -47.49467 157 71 201.78352 -47.46442 204 79 202.10412 -47.49034
111 - 201.62582 -47.47926 158 86 201.81315 -47.43650 205 16 201.90671 -47.62649
112 144 201.67926 -47.47160 159 97 201.78529 -47.42532 206 57 201.95551 -47.61414
113 25 201.60624 -47.47318 160 98 201.77429 -47.44913 207 126 202.03345 -47.67964
114 27 201.60839 -47.47131 161 - 201.79136 -47.45609 208 - 201.51848 -47.44119
115 - 201.66501 -47.46714 162 - 201.78882 -47.38497 209 - 201.66053 -47.55779
116 52 201.64648 -47.46773 163 20 201.80842 -47.46851 210 88 201.73296 -47.42120
117 62 201.61070 -47.46543 164 61 201.80816 -47.45855 211 108 201.76947 -47.49050

Table 2: Equatorial coordinates for variables OGLEGC71-211

 


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