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    Stellar pulsations are caused by expansions and contractions in the outer layers as a star seeks to maintain equilibrium. These fluctuations in stellar...
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    of variable, due in part to their short periods. The mechanics of stellar pulsation as a heat-engine was proposed in 1917 by Arthur Stanley Eddington...
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  • repeatedly moves inward and then is forced back out again. Stellar non-adiabatic pulsation resulting from the κ–mechanism occurs in regions where hydrogen...
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    right of the brighter Cepheids (at lower temperatures), since their stellar pulsations are attributed to the same mechanism. The Hertzsprung–Russell diagram...
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    Colloquium 155, Astrophysical applications of stellar pulsation. Astrophysical Applications of Stellar Pulsation. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference...
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  • Stellar Pulsations / Three Composers is an album by pianist Marilyn Crispell on which she performs works written for her by composers Robert Cogan, Pozzi...
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  • Chandrasekhar and Richard Feynman develop a general relativistic theory of stellar pulsations and show that supermassive stars are subject to a general relativistic...
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    Asteroseismology is closely related to helioseismology, the study of stellar pulsation specifically in the Sun. Though both are based on the same underlying...
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    Overview of Pulsations in β Cep Stars and Slowly Pulsating B Stars (invited paper)". Radial and Nonradial Pulsations as Probes of Stellar Physics. 259:...
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    A stellar black hole (or stellar-mass black hole) is a black hole formed by the gravitational collapse of a star. They have masses ranging from about 5...
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    members. List of semiregular variable stars Low-dimensional chaos in stellar pulsations Variable star designation Kukarkin, B. V. (2016). "27. Commission...
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    periodicities of 8.5 and 1,340 days. The former is likely due to stellar pulsation, whereas the latter could be indicative of the presence of an additional...
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    blue stragglers. One way to test this hypothesis is to study the Stellar pulsation of variable blue stragglers. The asteroseismological properties of...
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  • parallax Stellar physics Stellar planetary Stellar population Stellar precession Stellar pulsations Stellar quake Stellar radius Stellar remnant Stellar rotation...
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    Luminous Blue Variables". IAU Colloq. 155: Astrophysical Applications of Stellar Pulsation. 83: 176. Bibcode:1995ASPC...83..176L. Kastner, Joel H.; Buchanan...
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    in that galaxy were of two populations. Low-dimensional chaos in stellar pulsations Wallerstein, G. (2002). "The Cepheids of Population II and Related...
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    presence of long-period pulsation modes. From observations of the variable Hα spectral line, Rigel's mass-loss rate due to stellar wind is estimated be (1...
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  • mass will vary over its lifetime as mass is lost with the stellar wind or ejected via pulsational behavior, or if additional mass is accreted, such as from...
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    They are young, population I variable stars that exhibit regular radial pulsations with periods of a few days to a few weeks and visual amplitudes ranging...
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    velocity along the line of sight were due to a combination of the four-day pulsation period combined with a much longer orbital period and a large eccentricity...
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    periods cannot be caused by fundamental mode radial pulsations or their harmonics, but strange mode pulsations are one possible explanation. Samus, N. N.; Durlevich...
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  • hdl:2027.42/111960. ISSN 0022-2526. Krogdahl, Wasley S. (July 1955). "Stellar Pulsation as a Limit-Cycle Phenomenon". The Astrophysical Journal. 122: 43....
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  • an evolved red giant star with a stellar classification of M0 III. It is a suspected variable star with a pulsation period of around 586 days. The star...
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    days. The short-term oscillations were assumed to be a result of stellar pulsations, similar to the solar ones. A correlation between the variations in...
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    Bibcode:1981PASP...93..333F. doi:10.1086/130834. Gautschy, A.; et al. (1995). "Stellar Pulsations Across The HR Diagram: Part 1". Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics...
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    Christensen-Dalsgaard, J.; Balona, L. A.; Garrido, R.; Suárez, J.C. (Oct 20, 2012). "Stellar Pulsations: Impact of New Instrumentation and New Insights". Astrophysics and...
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    the cords' material and tension. Similarly, stellar pulsation modes are characteristic of global stellar properties and of the internal physical conditions...
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    Stellar evolution is the process by which a star changes over the course of time. Depending on the mass of the star, its lifetime can range from a few...
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    detected by microlensing X-ray transient Cataclysmic variable star Stellar pulsation Schmidt, Brian (20 April 2012). "Optical Transient Surveys". Proceedings...
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    holes, neutron stars are the second smallest and densest known class of stellar objects. Neutron stars have a radius on the order of 10 kilometers (6 mi)...
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