Milky Way Mira variable stars from OGLE Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Iwanek P.
  2. Soszynski I.
  3. Kozlowski S.
  4. Poleski R.
  5. Pietrukowicz P.,Skowron J.
  6. Wrona M.
  7. Mroz P.
  8. Udalski A.
  9. Szymanski M.K.
  10. Skowron D.M.,Ulaczyk K.
  11. Gromadzki M.
  12. Rybicki K.
  13. Ratajczak M.
  14. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present a collection of 65,981 Mira-type variable stars found in the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) project database. Two-thirds of our sample (40,356 objects) are located in the Galactic bulge fields, whereas 25,625 stars are in the Galactic disk. The vast majority of the collection (47,532 objects) comprises new discoveries. We provide basic observational parameters of the Mira variables: equatorial coordinates, pulsation periods, I-band and V-band mean magnitudes, I-band brightness amplitudes, and identifications in other catalogs of variable stars. We also provide the I-band and V-band time-series photometry collected since 1997 during the OGLE-II, OGLE-III, and OGLE-IV phases. The classical selection process, i.e., being mostly based on the visual inspection of light curves by experienced astronomers, has led to the high purity of the catalog. As a result, this collection can be used as a training set for machine-learning classification algorithms. Using overlapping areas of adjacent OGLE fields, we estimate the completeness of the catalog to be about 96%. We compare and discuss the statistical features of Miras located in different regions of the Milky Way. We show examples of stars that change their type over time, from a semiregular variable to Mira and vice versa. This data set is perfectly suited to studying the three-dimensional structure of the Milky Way, and it may help to explain the puzzle of the X-shaped bulge.

Keywords
  1. variable-stars
  2. giant-stars
  3. infrared-photometry
  4. visible-astronomy
  5. photometry
  6. milky-way-galaxy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2022ApJS..260...46I
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/260/46
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/260/46
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22600046

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History

2022-09-08T13:57:34Z
Resource record created
2022-09-08T13:57:34Z
Created
2024-02-06T12:28:56Z
Updated

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