Open AccessThe Araucaria Project. Variable stars outside the Local Group: NGC 300
Author(s) -
Mennickent R. E.,
Pietrzyński G.,
Gieren W.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
monthly notices of the royal astronomical society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.058
H-Index - 383
eISSN - 1365-2966
pISSN - 0035-8711
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07681.x
Subject(s) - physics , cepheid variable , astrophysics , variable star , astronomy , spiral galaxy , supergiant , stars , local group , galaxy , blue supergiant , photometry (optics) , red supergiant , dwarf galaxy
We have performed a search for variable stars in the Sculptor Group spiral galaxy NGC 300 using wide‐field multi‐epoch BV photometry up to a limiting magnitude V ∼ 23 . Apart from the Cepheid variables in this galaxy already reported in an earlier paper by Pietrzyński et al. and the variable blue supergiants reported by Bresolin et al., we have identified 26 additional periodic variables, with periods ranging from 0.2 to 190 d, and 121 slow variables. Two of these newly discovered variables are Galactic foreground stars (one of them is a W UMa system), and three correspond to previously identified Wolf–Rayet stars. 16 stars are new Cepheids, and the other objects span a huge range in colours and represent a mixture of different types of luminous variables.