Infrared variable stars in the compact elliptical galaxy M32

Author:

Jones O C1ORCID,Nally C2,Sharp M J2,McDonald I34ORCID,Boyer M L5ORCID,Meixner M56ORCID,Kemper F78ORCID,Ferguson A M N2ORCID,Goldman S R5ORCID,Rich R M9ORCID

Affiliation:

1. UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Royal Observatory, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK

2. Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Blackford Hill, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ, UK

3. Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK

4. The Open University, Walton Hall, Kents Hill, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK

5. Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

6. SOFIA-USRA, NASA Ames Research Center, MS 232-12, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA

7. European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2, D-85748 Garching b. München, Germany

8. Academia Sinica, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Taipei 10617, Taiwan

9. Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA

Abstract

ABSTRACT Variable stars in the compact elliptical galaxy M32 are identified, using three epochs of photometry from the Spitzer Space Telescope at 3.6 and 4.5 μm, separated by 32 to 381 d. We present a high-fidelity catalogue of sources detected in multiple epochs at both 3.6 and 4.5 μm, which we analysed for stellar variability using a joint probability error-weighted flux difference. Of these, 83 stars are identified as candidate large-amplitude, long-period variables, with 28 considered high-confidence variables. The majority of the variable stars are classified as asymptotic giant branch star candidates using colour-magnitude diagrams. We find no evidence supporting a younger, infrared-bright stellar population in our M32 field.

Funder

EU

UK Science and Technology Facility Council

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics

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