The Isaac Newton Telescope Monitoring Survey of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies. VII. Long-Period Variable Stars in the Nearest Starburst Dwarf Galaxy, IC 10

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Autori principali: Gholami, Mahtab, Javadi, Atefeh, Mahani, Hamidreza, van Loon, Jacco, Khosroshahi, Habib, Saremi, Elham, McDonald, Iain, Eftekhari, Samaneh, Ren, Yi, Altafi, Hamed
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author Gholami, Mahtab
Javadi, Atefeh
Mahani, Hamidreza
van Loon, Jacco
Khosroshahi, Habib
Saremi, Elham
McDonald, Iain
Eftekhari, Samaneh
Ren, Yi
Altafi, Hamed
author_facet Gholami, Mahtab
Javadi, Atefeh
Mahani, Hamidreza
van Loon, Jacco
Khosroshahi, Habib
Saremi, Elham
McDonald, Iain
Eftekhari, Samaneh
Ren, Yi
Altafi, Hamed
contents To identify long-period variable (LPV) stars in IC10 - the nearest starburst galaxy of the Local Group (LG) - we conducted an optical monitoring survey using the 2.5-m Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) with the wide-field camera (WFC) in the i-band and V-band from 2015 to 2017. We created a photometric catalog for 53,579 stars within the area of CCD4 of WFC ($\sim$ 0.07 deg$^2$ corresponding to 13.5 kpc$^2$ at the distance of IC10), of which we classified 536 and 380 stars as long-period variable candidates (LPVs), mostly asymptotic giant branch stars (AGBs) and red supergiants (RSGs), within CCD4 and two half-light radii of IC10, respectively. By comparing our output catalog to the catalogs from Pan-STARRS, Spitzer Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and carbon stars from the Canada-France-Hawai'i Telescope (CFHT) survey, we determined the success of our detection method. We recovered $\sim$ 73% of Spitzer's sources in our catalog and demonstrated that our survey successfully identified 43% of the variable stars found with Spitzer, and also retrieved 40% of the extremely dusty AGB stars among the Spitzer variables. In addition, we successfully identified $\sim$ 70% of HST variables in our catalog. Furthermore, we found all the confirmed LPVs that Gaia DR3 detected in IC10 among our identified LPVs. This paper is the first in a series on IC10, presenting the variable star survey methodology and the photometric catalog, available to the public through the Centre de Données Astronomiques de Strasbourg.
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spellingShingle The Isaac Newton Telescope Monitoring Survey of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies. VII. Long-Period Variable Stars in the Nearest Starburst Dwarf Galaxy, IC 10
Gholami, Mahtab
Javadi, Atefeh
Mahani, Hamidreza
van Loon, Jacco
Khosroshahi, Habib
Saremi, Elham
McDonald, Iain
Eftekhari, Samaneh
Ren, Yi
Altafi, Hamed
Astrophysics of Galaxies
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
To identify long-period variable (LPV) stars in IC10 - the nearest starburst galaxy of the Local Group (LG) - we conducted an optical monitoring survey using the 2.5-m Isaac Newton Telescope (INT) with the wide-field camera (WFC) in the i-band and V-band from 2015 to 2017. We created a photometric catalog for 53,579 stars within the area of CCD4 of WFC ($\sim$ 0.07 deg$^2$ corresponding to 13.5 kpc$^2$ at the distance of IC10), of which we classified 536 and 380 stars as long-period variable candidates (LPVs), mostly asymptotic giant branch stars (AGBs) and red supergiants (RSGs), within CCD4 and two half-light radii of IC10, respectively. By comparing our output catalog to the catalogs from Pan-STARRS, Spitzer Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and carbon stars from the Canada-France-Hawai'i Telescope (CFHT) survey, we determined the success of our detection method. We recovered $\sim$ 73% of Spitzer's sources in our catalog and demonstrated that our survey successfully identified 43% of the variable stars found with Spitzer, and also retrieved 40% of the extremely dusty AGB stars among the Spitzer variables. In addition, we successfully identified $\sim$ 70% of HST variables in our catalog. Furthermore, we found all the confirmed LPVs that Gaia DR3 detected in IC10 among our identified LPVs. This paper is the first in a series on IC10, presenting the variable star survey methodology and the photometric catalog, available to the public through the Centre de Données Astronomiques de Strasbourg.
title The Isaac Newton Telescope Monitoring Survey of Local Group Dwarf Galaxies. VII. Long-Period Variable Stars in the Nearest Starburst Dwarf Galaxy, IC 10
topic Astrophysics of Galaxies
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03972