Monitoring of LPVs for Maser Study

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Monitoring of LPVs for Maser Study

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AAVSO Alert Notice 645
Monitoring of LPVs for Maser Study
July 31, 2018: Michael Stroh (Ph.D. candidate, University of New Mexico) requests AAVSO assistance in monitoring 20 LPVs in support of a VLA campaign studying SiO masers. AAVSO monitoring begins now and goes through October 2019.
Stroh writes: "We have an approved Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) monitoring campaign beginning in October of 2018 lasting for one year and observations from AAVSO would be invaluable. In particular, we believe that the strengths of the SiO maser lines we observe at 43 GHz in the radio are correlated with the phase of the stars in our sample and may allow us to probe the density in the stellar envelopes. Our VLA observations will likely occur about once every 3 weeks, thus AAVSO sampling of targets ranging from 2 to 4 weeks will guide our interpretation of the radio observations.
"We selected our stars based on previous SiO observations of these sources but we also tried to select some that already had a history of good AAVSO coverage. These stars were previously observed as part of the Bulge Asymmetries and Dynamical Evolution survey and more information can be found at www.phys.unm.edu/~baade/index.html. All stars are also in the International Variable Star Index [VSX].
Name
R.A. (2000)
Dec. (2000)
Range
Spec Type
Var Type
TY Cas
00:36:59.42
+63:08:01.7
10.1 - 19.0 V
M6-M8
Mira
FI Per
03:54:56.75
+48:36:01.9
14.0 - 17.8 p
M7
Mira
SY Mon
06:37:31.34
-01:23:43.0
7.0 - 14.6 V
M6e-M9
Mira
FX Mon
06:45:05.60
+09:02:18.5
11.0 - 18.0 p
M1-M8
Mira
NSVS 12572573
06:45:14.95
-2:26:35.1
13.5 - <17.0 V
M10
Mira
V349 Vul
19:31:10.47
+23:30:33.5
11.4 - 15.2 V
M8
Mira
RT Aql
19:38:01.60
+11:43:18.2
7.6 - 14.5 V
M6e-M8e(S)
Mira
V353 Vul
19:49:22.06
+22:37:39.8
13 - <15.5 V
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Mira
V1301 Cyg
20:02:12.62
+37:38:05.8
16.5 - <21.0 p
M
Mira
SX Cyg
20:15:33.53
+31:04:20.1
8.2 - 15.2 V
M7e
Mira
AU Cyg
20:18:32.77
+34:23:20.5
9.5 - 15.3 p
M6e-M7e
Mira
V1655 Cyg
20:25:24.02
+38:42:35.6
12 - 14.8 I
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Mira
V1659 Cyg
20:29:05.52
+39:42:45.8
12.1 - 15.4 I
M6.5
Mira
NSVS J2041274+511326
20:41:27.45
+51:13:29.9
11.0 - 13.3 R1
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Mira
DR Cyg
20:43:41.01
+38:09:56.1
9.3 - <15.5 p
M5e
Mira
V750 Cyg
20:49:21.17
+50:31:51.3
11.2 - 16.4 V
M5ea
Mira
W Cep
22:36:27.56
+58:25:34.0
7.02 - 8.5 V
M0-M2Iaep+B0/B1
SR supergiant
AL Cep
22:49:16.89
+58:35:07.1
10.9 - 14.5 p
M5-M6.5e
Mira
VX Cep
22:50:49.45
+64:15:04.7
11.4 - <15.5 p
M8
Mira
"Observations occurring every 2-4 weeks are preferred.
"We prefer Johnson V photometry for all stars to standardize our measurements. If this is not possible, redder filters are preferred (if possible), and are considered a bonus if performed in addition to observations in V since these are very red stars.
"All targets are in the Galactic Plane which could make some of these stars challenging to obtain good photometry. But since these are among the brightest sources in our radio observations, they may be relatively close and may not suffer from large amounts of extinction."
Observations beginning now are requested in order to have a good baseline for all the targets, especially those which have had little or no previous AAVSO coverage. As said above, observations every 2-4 weeks are requested. However, the usual cadence for LPVs is one observation every 10 days, and this cadence is requested by the AAVSO. It is asked that more frequent observations not be made.
Visual observations are welcomed and encouraged.
Charts with comparison star sequences for each of the targets above may be created using the AAVSO Variable Star Plotter (VSP).
Please submit observations to the AAVSO International Database using the names given in the table.
AAVSO Forums: This campaign is the topic of the AAVSO Campaigns and Observation Reports forum thread https://www.aavso.org/lpv-maser-2018-campaign and the Long Period Variables forum thread https://www.aavso.org/lpv-maser-2018-campaign-01
This AAVSO Alert Notice was compiled by Elizabeth O. Waagen.
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