John Ellard Gore: "Giant Suns and Miniature Stars"

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Dec 2007

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #82.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.873

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The Irish amateur astronomer John Ellard Gore (1845-1910) was a founding member of the British Astronomical Association and a prolific author of popular astronomy between 1880 and 1910. He is perhaps best remembered for his books `The Visible Universe’ (1893), an English language translation of Camille Flammarion's `Popular Astronomy’ (1894) and his contributions to Agnes Clerk's `Astronomy’ (1898). I consider a little known investigation that Gore undertook into the question of stellar `sizes’ using binary stars. This led him to the realization of the existence of "Giant Suns” as well as "Miniature Stars” the latter included the sun. Gore also considered the existence of hyper-dense compact objects, now known as white dwarfs. Unfortunately Gore rejected the reality of the latter stellar types. Gore based his conclusions on a formula developed by fellow Irish astronomer W.H.S. Monck, who was reaching similar conclusions about Giant stars through the study of stellar motions.

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