GK Per photometry

This collection of photometrical observations of GK Per refers the brightness of GK to HD21588, which, according to Tycho, has spectral type A2, V=9.069 and B-V=0.291. I do not know better callibration of this data, but I hope to improve it.

The check star, GSC 02874-00934, has V magnitude 11, B-V=0.3 (from Tycho) and on all graphs have been moved one magnitude up, so its data do not cross with GK.


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Figure 1. Old BART WF observations from the first third of year 2002. Exposure 120s, Kodak CCD without filter.



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Figure 2. BART observations obtained during October, November and December 2004. V filter, 120s exposures with WF camera. In the middle you can see a nice drop of brightness, however, the lightcurve fine structure may be seen only on the rightmost panel.



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Figure 3. Measurements obtained on four nights between December 5 and 9 at station BOOTES-1 using the 1-A instrument. R filter, 180s exposures (~4min sampling). The graph has same x-axis resolution as the one on Fig. 2, so the structure may be compared simply. A slow overall decline may be seen clearly here.



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Figure 4. Some time later, the star seems to be back to normal. (Observation by Bootes-1B, 180s, V filter)