Variability of Luminous Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud Using 10 Years of ASAS Data

Details Variability of Luminous Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud Using 10 Years of ASAS Data Variability of Luminous Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud Using 10 Years of ASAS Data

2010-01-20

arxiv.org/abs/1001.3410v2

Szczygiel, D. M., Stanek, K. Z., Bonanos, A. Z., Pojmanski, G., Pilecki, B., Prieto, J. L. 2010, AJ, 140, 14

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

23 pages, 10 figures and 3 tables; published in AJ

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-6256/140/1/14

Motivated by the detection of a recent outburst of the massive luminous blue variable LMC-R71, which reached an absolute magnitude M_V = -9.3 mag, we undertook a systematic study of the optical variability of 1268 massive stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, using a recent catalog by Bonanos et al. (2009) as the input. The ASAS All Star Catalog (Pojmanski 2002) provided well-sampled light curves of these bright stars spanning 10 years. Combining the two catalogs resulted in 599 matches, on which we performed a variability search. We identified 117 variable stars, 38 of which were not known before, despite their brightness and large amplitude of variation. We found 13 periodic stars that we classify as eclipsing binary (EB) stars, eight of which are newly discovered bright, massive eclipsing binaries composed of OB type stars. The remaining 104 variables are either semi- or non-periodic, the majority (85) being red supergiants. Most (26) of the newly discovered variables in this category are also red supergiants with only three B and four O stars.

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