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A large-scale survey for variable stars in M33

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 نشر من قبل David Bersier
 تاريخ النشر 2008
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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We have started a survey of M 33 in order to find variable stars and Cepheids in particular. We have obtained more than 30 epochs of gri data with the CFHT and the one-square-degree camera MegaCam. We present first results from this survey, including the search for variable objects and a basic characterization of the various groups of variable stars.

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