J/ApJS/280/14ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/280/14CDSHey D.Tonry J.Shappee B.Huber D.2026-06-05T10:57:04Z2026-06-05T11:50:49ZCDS support team

CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France

cds-question@unistra.frasteroseismologymagellanic-cloudsinfrared-photometryvisible-astronomyvariable-starsPeriod-luminosity (PL) relations of long-period variables (LPVs) are a powerful tool to map the distances of stars in our Galaxy, and are typically calibrated using stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Recent results demonstrated that these relations show a strong dependence on the amplitude of the variability, which can be used to greatly improve distance estimates. However, one of the only highly sampled catalogs of such variables in the LMC is based on Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment photometry, which does not provide all-sky coverage. Here, we provide the first measurement of the PL relation of LPVs in the LMC using photometry from the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). We derive conversions between ugriz, Gaia, and ATLAS c and o passbands with a precision of ~0.02mag, which enable the measurement of reliable amplitudes with ATLAS for crowded fields. We successfully reproduce the known PL sequences A through E, and show evidence for sequence F using the ratios of amplitudes observed in both ATLAS passbands. Our work demonstrates that the ATLAS survey can recover variability in evolved red giants and lays the foundation for an all-sky distance map of the Milky Way using LPVs.2025ApJS..280...14Hhttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/280/14CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toII/246 : 2MASS All-Sky Catalog of Point Sources (Cutri+ 2003)II/366 : ASAS-SN catalog of variable stars (Jayasinghe+, 2018-2020)I/355 : Gaia DR3 Part 1. Main source (Gaia Collaboration, 2022)I/358 : Gaia DR3 Part 4. Variability (Gaia Collaboration, 2022)J/ApJ/552/289 : Semiregular variable stars in Baade's windows (Alard+, 2001)J/MNRAS/349/1059 : OGLE variables in Galactic bar (Wray+, 2004)J/MNRAS/399/2063 : LMC red giants in D sequence (Nicholls+, 2009)J/AcA/59/239 : VI LCs of LMC long-period variables (Soszynski+, 2009)J/MNRAS/400/1945 : Light curves of 261 nearby pulsating M giants (Tabur+, 2009)J/AcA/61/217 : VI LCs of SMC long-period variables (Soszynski+, 2011)J/AcA/63/21 : VI light curves of Galactic LPVs (Soszynski+, 2013)J/A+A/583/A122 : Variability of CoRoT M-giant stars (Ferreira+, 2015)J/ApJ/860/1 : Radial velocities of 20 EBs in LMC (Graczyk+, 2018)J/AJ/156/241 : Variable stars measured by ATLAS (Heinze+, 2018)J/ApJ/868/30 : OGLE LMC-T2CEP-211 EBs LCs and RVs (Pilecki+, 2018)J/AcA/68/315 : OGLE Galactic Cepheids (Udalski+, 2018)J/AJ/160/18 : M giant stars asteroseismology (Auge+, 2020)J/MNRAS/493/1388 : Asteroseismology of red giants with Kepler (Yu+, 2020)J/A+A/645/A69 : PRM catalogue of halo MS stars (Koppelman+, 2021)J/A+A/649/A7 : MC structure and properties (Gaia Collaboration+, 2021)J/AJ/161/74 : SMASH DR2. 197 SMASH fields (Nidever+, 2021)J/A+A/656/A66 : Semi-regular red giants as indicators (Trabucchi+, 2021)J/ApJS/264/20 : OGLE Mira var. stars with WISE & Spitzer (Iwanek+, 2023)J/A+A/688/A93 : Sample of ~60000 OBAF-type pulsators (Hey+, 2024)https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/280/14https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/280/14http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJS/280/14https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJS/280/14https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJS/280/14http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJS/280/14GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/ApJS/280/14/table3 (Results of the prewhitening for the ATLAS light curves)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/280/14/table3?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/280/14/table3?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJS/280/14/table3?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true80.66842-69.333946110.0055555555555555563/516-517 4/2112 2338 2344 2346 5/8213-8215 8220-8221 8223 8245 8289 8292-8293 8295 8304-8305 8452 8454 8456-8457 9344 9346-9347 9350 9356 9358 9382 9728-9730 6/32847 32849 32851 32869 32877 32888-32890 32988 33152-33153 33155 33161-33162 33164 33166-33167 33176-33177 33225-33226 33228-33229 33232-33234 33236 33812-33814 33832-33834 33836 33840 37032 37034-37035 37038-37039 37380 37382-37383 37394 37430 37438 37520 37522-37523 37552-37554 37560 37562 38924 38926 38944-38946 389528.650015785639275e-20 1.7003137259100215e-19https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/ApJS/280/14?format=asciiOpticalInfrareddefaultJ/ApJS/280/14/table3Results of the prewhitening for the ATLAS light curvesm_GaiaNumber of ATLAS passband observed for this targetmeta.code.multipintnullableRAJ2000[52.49/110.4] Right Ascension (J2000)degpos.eq.ra;meta.mainindexedDEJ2000[-79.32/-59.8] Declination (J2000)degpos.eq.dec;meta.mainindexedBandPassband of the photometry (1)instr.bandpasscharJmag[10.4/16.21] 2MASS PSC J band magnitudemagphot.mag;em.IR.Jfloate_Jmag[0.019/0.64]? Uncertainty in Jmagmagstat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.JfloatnullableHmag[9.49/15.92] 2MASS PSC H band magnitudemagphot.mag;em.IR.Hfloate_Hmag[0.017/1.17]? Uncertainty in Hmagmagstat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.HfloatnullableKsmag[9/14.81] 2MASS PSC K_s_ band magnitudemagphot.mag;em.IR.Kfloate_Ksmag[0.015/0.17]? Uncertainty in Ksmagmagstat.error;phot.mag;em.IR.KfloatnullableWJKs[7.7/14.01] Wesenheit index (W_JKs_=Ks-0.686(J-Ks), equation 3 in Section 4.2)magphot.mag;arith.diff;em.IRfloatPer1[-340.04/267] First measured perioddtime.periodfloatPer2[-974/853.4]? Second measured perioddtime.periodfloatnullablePer3[-1109/787]? Third measured perioddtime.perioddoublenullableAmp1[2.6/1971.1] Amplitude of Per1; in parts per thousandsrc.var.amplitudedoubleAmp2[2.2/989]? Amplitude of Per2; in parts per thousandsrc.var.amplitudefloatnullableAmp3[0.67/554.7]? Amplitude of Per3; in parts per thousandsrc.var.amplitudefloatnullable2MDisplay the 2MASS data (II/246) within 0.5"meta.ref.urlcharSimbadSimbad column added by the CDSmeta.ref.urlcharrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintGaiaGaia DR3 identifiermeta.id;meta.main