Rotating ellipsoidal variables are a class of close binary variable star systems whose components are ellipsoidal. They are not eclipsing, but fluctuations...

light-years from the Sun. It is a spectroscopic binary star and rotating ellipsoidal variable; a system whose two stars are so close together they are egg-shaped...

naked eye of an observer far from city lights. The star is a rotating ellipsoidal variable whose brightness, as measured by the Hipparcos satellite, varies...

that HD 159176 is a rotating ellipsoidal variable. The star's spectra exhibit the Struve–Sahade effect. HD 159176 was given the variable star designation...

Fifty-four variable stars have been found in M93, including one slowly pulsating B-type star, one rotating ellipsoidal variable, seven Delta Scuti variables, six...

visible light and X-rays. Because the K-type star has been pulled into an ellipsoidal shape, the amount of surface area visible, and thus the apparent brightness...

a rotating ellipsoidal variable, varying between apparent magnitudes 4.98 and 5.09, although the classification as a rotating ellipsoidal variable is...

TV Pictoris is a rotating ellipsoidal variable star in the constellation Pictor. It ranges between apparent magnitude 7.37 - 7.53 over a period of 0.85...

extrinsic variables: rotating stars and eclipsing stars. Stars with sizeable sunspots may show significant variations in brightness as they rotate, and brighter...

that Cygnus X-1 was not rotating to any significant degree. However, evidence announced in 2011 suggests that it is rotating extremely rapidly, approximately...

that they distort each other into an ellipsoidal shape through gravity, thereby forming a rotating ellipsoidal variable system. However, almost no information...

value of the density, and the iso-density surface is an ellipsoid. Ellipsoidal dome Ellipsoidal coordinates Elliptical distribution, in statistics Flattening...

The close binary pair forms a rotating ellipsoidal variable with a 1.53 day period. Star C forms an Algol-type variable system with the close binary,...

the naked eye of an observer far from city lights. It is a rotating ellipsoidal variable, a binary star for which the two stars' combined brightness...

variable. It has been given the variable star designation TZ Trianguli. The variations are due to the ellipsoidal shape of the stars as they rotate,...

Beta Cephei variables, also known as Beta Canis Majoris stars, are variable stars that exhibit small rapid variations in their brightness due to pulsations...

of B3 V. It is a helium-weak chemically peculiar star and a rotating ellipsoidal variable. The star has an estimated 3.9 times the radius of the Sun and...

The pair form an eclipsing system, and it is classed as a rotating ellipsoidal variable. The third star, component B, is magnitude 6.0 and forms a visual...

Ellipsoidal reflector spot (abbreviated to ERS, or colloquially ellipsoidal or ellipse) is the name for a type of stage lighting instrument, named for...

announced that HR 3462 is a variable star based on observations made in 1976. He correctly classified it as an ellipsoidal variable, but the period he derived...

designation HD 174237 in the Henry Draper Catalogue; CX Draconis is the variable star designation. This is a double-lined spectroscopic binary system with...

nearly two days in a circular orbit. It is classified as a rotating ellipsoidal variable star and its brightness varies by 0.02 magnitudes with a period...

brighter component is a close eclipsing binary (specifically, a rotating ellipsoidal variable), with a minor dip of magnitude (0.1). Both are hot blue stars...

1985, Arnout van Genderen et al. reported that the star appeared to be "variable in brightness". Eleonora A. Antokhina et al. confirmed the star's variability...

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The star is located in the Volans constellation. HD 74423 is slightly variable in brightness. It fluctuates between magnitudes 8.58 and 8.66 every 19...

31237 22797 04h 54m 15.10s +02° 26′ 26.4″ 3.71 −4.36 1342 B2III rotating ellipsoidal variable, Vmax = 3.66m, Vmin = 3.73m, P = 3.70 d σ Ori AB σ 48 37468...

an optical variable showing brightness changes of up to 0.08 magnitudes at visible wavelengths. These have been attributed to ellipsoidal variations as...

736 days. Because the primary star is rotating rapidly, it has assumed the shape of an oblate spheroid. The ellipsoidal profile of the star, as viewed from...

0.03 magnitudes were interpreted as ellipsoidal variations as the star, distorted by a close companion, rotates with a period of 1.1 days. Later analysis...