Search for Pulsating Stars in the Globular Cluster M 80 from Ground- and Space-based Observations

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Galaxy Groups, Clusters, And Superclusters, Large Scale Structure Of The Universe, Cepheids, Stellar Characteristics And Properties

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We present preliminary results of the search for pulsating stars in the globular cluster M 80 from both ground- and space-based CCD observations. Application of the image subtraction method to the ground-based times series of CCD frames resulted in finding 9 new RR Lyrae stars: six RRc and three RRab stars. Revised mean period of seven RRab stars,
ab = 0.68 d, and relative percentage of RRc stars, Nc/(Nab+Nc) = 53%, strongly confirm that M 80 belongs to the Oosterhoff II group of globular clusters. Moreover, we have found 3 SX Phoenicis stars among the cluster's blue stragglers. In two pulsating stars we discovered oscillations with two close frequencies, which indicates excitation of non-radial modes. We also used archival HST observations in an attempt for detecting other SX Phoenicis stars mostly in the dense cluster's core. From the scatter in the U-filter light curves of observed blue stragglers we identified nine probable SX Phoenicis variables.

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