Searching for Variable Stars in the Central Part of the Globular Cluster M22

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2004-01-20

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0401385v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages with 4 figures, already published in Acta Astronomica vol. 53, p. 371

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Time-series data taken with the Hubble Space Telescope of three fields covering the central part of the globular cluster M22 have been analyzed in search of variable objects. We report identification of 11 periodic variables of which 8 are new discoveries. The sample includes 5 certain contact binaries as well as 1 SX Phe star. Two objects with periods longer than 1 day are preliminarily classified as either spotted variables of BY Dra type or ellipsoidal variables. The most unusual of the identified variables, M22_V11, has I_C=19.9 and is located far to the red of the main sequence in the cluster color-magnitude diagram. It shows variability with a period as short as P=0.066 days or alternatively with P=0.132 days. We propose that it may be an ellipsoidal variable harboring a degenerate component.

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