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LIMBO: A time-series Lucky Imaging survey of variability in Galactic globular clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2014

N. Kains
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
D. M. Bramich
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
R. Figuera Jaimes
Affiliation:
European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
J. Skottfelt
Affiliation:
Niel Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Abstract

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We present a large observing project monitoring globular clusters (GC) over long time baselines, which will lead to a complete census of variable stars in those clusters down to several magnitudes below the horizontal branch (HB). The use of Lucky Imaging (LI) will allow us to obtain high-precision photometry for even faint objects, and long-term monitoring will also mean that observations are sensitive to detecting other slow transient phenomena, such as gravitational microlensing, the primary aim of this project.

Type
Contributed Papers
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2014 

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