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New periodic variables from the Hipparcos epoch photometry
Two selection statistics are used to extract new candidate periodicvariables from the epoch photometry of the Hipparcos catalogue. Theprimary selection criterion is a signal-to-noise ratio. The dependenceof this statistic on the number of observations is calibrated usingabout 30000 randomly permuted Hipparcos data sets. A significance levelof 0.1 per cent is used to extract a first batch of candidate variables.The second criterion requires that the optimal frequency be unaffectedif the data are de-trended by low-order polynomials. We find 2675 newcandidate periodic variables, of which the majority (2082) are from theHipparcos`unsolved' variables. Potential problems with theinterpretation of the data (e.g. aliasing) are discussed.
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| UVBY H-beta photometry of UV-bright stars
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| Constellation: | Pfau |
| Right ascension: | 18h03m23.56s |
| Declination: | -65°05'40.2" |
| Apparent magnitude: | 8.351 |
| Distance: | 1000 parsecs |
| Proper motion RA: | 1.3 |
| Proper motion Dec: | -6.5 |
| B-T magnitude: | 8.27 |
| V-T magnitude: | 8.345 |
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