Browsing by Author "Navarrete, Camila"
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- ItemPulsating stars in ω Centauri. Near-IR properties and period-luminosity relations(2017) Navarrete, Camila; Catelan, Marcio; Contreras Ramos, Rodrigo; Alonso-García, Javier; Gran, Felipe; Dékány, István; Minniti, Danteω Centauri (NGC 5139) contains many variable stars of different types, including the pulsating type II Cepheids, RR Lyrae and SX Phoenicis stars. We carried out a deep, wide-field, near-infrared (IR) variability survey of ω Cen, using the VISTA telescope. We assembled an unprecedented homogeneous and complete J and KS near-IR catalog of variable stars in the field of ω Cen. In this paper we compare optical and near-IR light curves of RR Lyrae stars, emphasizing the main differences. Moreover, we discuss the ability of near-IR observations to detect SX Phoenicis stars given the fact that the amplitudes are much smaller in these bands compared to the optical. Finally, we consider the case in which all the pulsating stars in the three different variability types follow a single period-luminosity relation in the near-IR bands....
- ItemRR Lyrae stars as tracers of halo substructures(2017) Duffau, Sonia; Vivas, A. Katherina; Navarrete, Camila; Carballo-Bello, Julio; Hajdu, Gergel; Catelan, MarcioThree RR Lyrae overdensity candidates in the southern sky have been studied using low resolution spectra obtained with the Goodman spectrograph at SOAR. We search for unidentified velocity peaks indicative of the possible presence of streams within the overdensities. Our results suggest that all three overdensities present an excess of radial velocity signal at high mean radial velocities which cannot be explained as a contribution from any known Galactic component....
- ItemSearching for fossil remnants in the Galactic halo: photometric follow-up of southern CRTScandidates(2015) Chan, Siukuen Josephine; Navarrete, Camila; Catelan, Marcio; Duffau, Sonia; Torrealba, Gabriel. I.; Drake, Andrew J.; Belokurov, Vasily; Koposov, SergeyObservations of the fossil record of the early formation stages of the Milky Way galaxy provide important constraints on cosmological scenarios for the formation of large galaxies like our own. While the northern celestial hemisphere has been extensively examined for the presence and degree of halo substructure, the southern halo has until recently remained "terra incognita" for such studies. However, based on RR Lyrae stars detected in the course of the Catalina Real-time Transients Survey (CRTS), our team has identified a number of new candidate overdensities in the southern Galactic halo (Torrealba et al. 2015, MNRAS, 446, 2251). Here we describe some preliminary results of a deeper search for the Torrealba et al. overdensity candidates, using photometric data from selected wide-field surveys that have mapped the immediate vicinity of some of the more promising among these candidates....
- ItemVariable stars in the VVV globular clusters. II. NGC 6441, NGC 6569, NGC 6626 (M 28), NGC 6656 (M 22), 2MASS-GC 02, and Terzan 10(2021) Alonso-García, Javier; Smith, Leigh C.; Catelan, Márcio; Minniti, Dante; Navarrete, Camila; Borissova, Jura; Carballo-Bello, Julio A.; Contreras Ramos, Rodrigo; Fernández-Trincado, José G.; Ferreira Lopes, Carlos E.; Gran, Felipe; Garro, Elisa R.; Geisler, Doug; Guo, Zhen; Hempel, Maren; Kerins, Eamonn; Lucas, Philip W.; Palma, Tali; Peña Ramírez, Karla; Ramírez Alegría, Sebastián; Saito, Roberto K.Context. The Galactic globular clusters (GGCs) located in the inner regions of the Milky Way suffer from high extinction that makes their observation challenging. High densities of field stars in their surroundings complicate their study even more. The VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea (VVV) survey provides a way to explore these GGCs in the near-infrared where extinction effects are highly diminished. Aims: We conduct a search for variable stars in several inner GGCs, taking advantage of the unique multi-epoch, wide-field, near-infrared photometry provided by the VVV survey. We are especially interested in detecting classical pulsators that will help us constrain the physical parameters of these GGCs. In this paper, the second of a series, we focus on NGC 6656 (M 22), NGC 6626 (M 28), NGC 6569, and NGC 6441; these four massive GGCs have known variable sources, but quite different metallicities. We also revisit 2MASS-GC 02 and Terzan 10, the two GGCs studied in the first paper of this series. Methods: We present an improved method and a new parameter that efficiently identify variable candidates in the GGCs. We also use the proper motions of those detected variable candidates and their positions in the sky and in the color-magnitude diagrams to assign membership to the GGCs. Results: We identify and parametrize in the near-infrared numerous variable sources in the studied GGCs, cataloging tens of previously undetected variable stars. We recover many known classical pulsators in these clusters, including the vast majority of their fundamental mode RR Lyrae. We use these pulsators to obtain distances and extinctions toward these objects. Recalibrated period-luminosity-metallicity relations for the RR Lyrae bring the distances to these GGCs to a closer agreement with those reported by Gaia, except for NGC 6441, which is an uncommon Oosterhoff III GGC. Recovered proper motions for these GGCs also agree with those reported by Gaia, except for 2MASS-GC 02, the most reddened GGC in our sample, where the VVV near-infrared measurements provide a more accurate determination of its proper motions. Lightcurves and full Tables 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (ftp://130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/651/A47...