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We present 83 new times of maximum light of the SX Phoenicis (SX Phe) star DY Pegasi (DY Peg), based mainly on our new time-series photometric observations from the years 2004–2008. Together with the times of maximum light in the literature, a comprehensive study of the O - C diagram with the data spanning over seven decades leads to a new general ephemeris formula and the determination of a new value of the updated period 0.072926187( ± 3)d. The available times of maximum light can be well modeled with either a triple linear fit, or a fit concerning a continuously increasing period change combined with the light-time effect of an orbital motion. On the contrary, the decreasing period hypothesis suggested by some previous investigators appears to be rejected. The frequency analyses of the data collected in 2004 and 2006 provide the radial pulsation frequency 13.713 c d -1 and its four harmonics. However, although extra powers were present around the reported secondary frequency 17.8 c d -1 in the Fourier transformations of the new data sets, its signal-to-noise ratios were too low to detect this frequency.

The spectroscopic sky survey carried out by the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) provides the largest stellar spectra library in the world until now. A large number of new DA white dwarfs had been identified based on the LAMOST spectra. The effective temperature (T eff ) and surface gravity (log g) of most DA white dwarfs were determined and published in the catalogs, e.g. Zhao et al. (2013), Rebassa-Mansergas et al. (2015), Gentile Fusillo et al. (2015 and Guo et al. (2015). We selected ZZ Ceti candidates from the published catalogs by considering whether their T eff are situated in the ZZ Ceti instability strip. The follow-up time-series photometric observations for the candidates were performed in 2015 and 2016. Four stars: LAMOST J004628.31+343319.90, LAMOST J062159.49+252335.9, LAMOST J010302.46+433756.2 and LAMOST J013033.90+273757.9 are finally confirmed to be new ZZ Ceti stars. They show dominant peaks with amplitudes rising above the 99.9% confidence level in the amplitude spectra. As LAMOST J004628.31+343319.90 has an estimated mass of ∼ 0.40 M ⊙ and LAM-OST J013033.90+273757.9 has a mass of ∼ 0.45 M ⊙ derived from their log g values, these two stars are inferred to be potential helium-core white dwarfs.

A 16-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope on the campus of Naresuan University of Thailand and several similar-size telescopes in China equipped with CCD cameras were used to observe 14 high amplitude delta Scuti stars: GP And, CY Aqr, BS Aqr, YZ Boo, AD CMi, VZ Cnc, EH Lib, DY Her, V927 Her, KZ Hya, BE Lyn, V1162 Ori, DY Peg, and CW Ser, between the years 1999 and 2010. Data were also collected from scientific journals and sources on the Internet for these variable stars. Times of light maximum of these delta Scuti stars were then either determined from the observations or obtained from the literature to analyze the pulsation period variations. For the 14 delta Scuti stars we concluded that 7 stars (BS Aqr, CY Aqr, AD CMi, EH Lib, KZ Hya, BE Lyn and DY Peg) are binary or multiple systems. 10 delta Scuti stars are found with periods increasing with rates between 5.86 × 10 −9 and 2.34 × 10 −6 per year and the other 4 stars (BS Aqr, DY Her, BE Lyn and DY Peg) show periods decreasing with rates of about 10 −9 to 10 −8 per year.