1907–2007: What's new on the Blazhko front?
- Author(s)
- Katrien Kolenberg
- Abstract
On the centenary of the discovery of the Blazhko effect [1], it is time to give a rundown of what progress has been made over the past decade in the understanding of the phenomenon. The Blazhko effect is a periodic amplitude and/or phase modulation of the light curve, shown by a large fraction of the astrophy sic ally important RR Lyrae stars. Despite numerous devoted observational studies and elaborate models attempting to reproduce the modulation, it still defies a definitive explanation. This paper attempts to give an overview of the observational and theoretical status of studies devoted to the phenomenon.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Journal
- Journal of Physics: Conference Series
- Volume
- 118
- ISSN
- 1742-6588
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/118/1/012060
- Publication date
- 2008
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 1030 Physics, Astronomy
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/531faedc-30bc-45a4-983f-205959f733d9