Preprint
Sep 2026
Discovery of over a thousand variable stars in Terzan 5 and Liller 1 with JWST
The Bulge Fossil Fragments Terzan 5 and Liller 1 host some of the densest stellar environments in the Galaxy, yet their variable star populations have remained largely unexplored due to crowding and heavy obscuration. Here, we identify 1,315 variable sources in these two systems in what is to our knowledge the first JW...
K. Burdge, I. Caiazzo, Malina Desai et al.
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