Short timescale variability in the Faint Sky Variability Survey

Details Short timescale variability in the Faint Sky Variability Survey Short timescale variability in the Faint Sky Variability Survey

2006-07-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0607190v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.371:1681-1692,2006

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 12 figures and 4 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10792.x

We present the V band variability analysis of the point sources in the Faint Sky Variability Survey on time scales from 24 minutes to tens of days. We find that about one percent of the point sources down to V = 24 are variables. We discuss the variability detection probabilities for each field depending on field sampling, amplitude and timescale of the variability. The combination of colour and variability information allows us to explore the fraction of variable sources for different spectral types. We find that about 50 percent of the variables show variability timescales shorter than 6 hours. The total number of variables is dominated by main sequence sources. The distribution of variables with spectral type is fairly constant along the main sequence, with 1 per cent of the sources being variable, except at the blue end of the main sequence, between spectral types F0--F5, where the fraction of variable sources increases to about 2 percent. For bluer sources, above the main sequence, this percentage increases to about 3.5. We find that the combination of the sampling and the number of observations allows us to determine the variability timescales and amplitudes for a maximum of 40 percent of the variables found. About a third of the total number of short timescale variables found in the survey were not detected in either B or/and I. These show a similar variability timescale distribution to that found for the variables detected in all three bands.

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