Algol

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2386t&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2386. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Stars, Individual Stellar Objects

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Algol, also known as β Persei, is the prototype of a class of ECLIPSING BINARY STARS that undergo dramatic brightness changes during the eclipses. Like other Algols, Algol itself consists of a hot, unevolved primary and a cool, evolved secondary. It is this large difference in temperatures between the two stars that gives rise to the dramatic eclipses. When the hot primary is eclipsed by th...

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