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This unique volume provides a complete reference on variable stars. It presents a wealth of typical light and colour curves (more than 200 in all) to allow identification, together with a detailed and up-to-date description of each subclass (giving the observational characteristics, historic background and current understanding of the astrophysical processes responsible for the variability).
The editors, together with seven other world experts, have created a unique pictorial atlas of variable stars. In the first chapter they give a clear introduction to the nomenclature and classification of the light curves of variable stars, and to photometric systems and photometric accuracy. In the remaining chapters they provide a detailed account of each subclass of variable star in turn from eruptive, pulsating, rotating and cataclysmic variables, through to eclipsing binary systems and X-ray binaries.
Specific variable stars, types and classes of variables, together with key astrophysical terms can be quickly and easily located in the book by means of detailed object-name and subject indexes. This comprehensive and up-to-date volume provides an essential reference for all those interested in variable stars - from researchers and graduate students through to dedicated amateurs.
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Light curves, Atlases, Variable starsEdition | Availability |
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Light Curves of Variable Stars: A Pictorial Atlas
2011, Cambridge University Press
in English
0511877323 9780511877322
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Light Curves of Variable Stars: A Pictorial Atlas
2009, Cambridge University Press
in English
0511564791 9780511564796
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Light curves of variable stars: a pictorial atlas
1996, Cambridge University Press
in English
0521390168 9780521390163
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Light Curves of Variable Stars: A Pictorial Atlas
October 28, 1996, Cambridge University Press
Hardcover
in English
0521390168 9780521390163
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"All stars display variations of brightness and colour in the course of their passage through subsequent stages of stellar evolution."
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