Cepheid Period-Luminosity Relation

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke1857m&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 1857. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Stars, Stellar Models And Concepts

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The empirical correlation between the luminosity of a Cepheid variable and its period has been known to astronomers, and used by them as a powerful distance determination method, for the better part of the 20th century. Individually, Cepheids have distinctive light curves, rising rapidly in brightness to a maximum, and then falling more gradually to minimum light. This cycle consistently repeats ...

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