Mira Variables from the MACHO Galactic Bulge Scutum Fields

J. Greaves
Northants, England, UK

Received:   16.12.2009;   accepted:   23.12.2009
(E-mail for contact: knot@safe-mail.net)

Remarks:
Presented are the details for seven Mira variables found from the Scutum MACHO Galactic Bulge field 301 epoch photometry as publicly served via their new Virtual Observatory interface (Smillie 2009) and as downloaded and sourced via TOPCAT.

Each object was checked against the Strasbourg CDS Vizier service for pre-existence as a Mira in variability catalogues.

The astrometric positions were derived from the Carlsberg Meridian Catalog 14 (CMC14 2006).

Acknowledgements: This paper utilizes public domain data obtained by the MACHO Project, jointly funded by the US Department of Energy through the University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract No. W-7405-Eng-48, by the National Science Foundation through the Center for Particle Astrophysics of the University of California under cooperative agreement AST-8809616, and by the Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatory, part of the Australian National University. The application TOPCAT (http://www.starlink.ac.uk/topcat) was used for VO access and visualisation of the data. Catalogue data served by the VizieR service of the CDS, Strasbourg, was used in this analysis.

References:
CMC14, 2006, Carlsberg Meridian Catalog 14, Centre de Donnees Astronomiques de Strasbourg, I/304
Smillie, J. G., for the MACHO collaboration, 2009, arXiv:0910.5041