1907–2007: What's new on the Blazhko front?

Autor(en)
Katrien Kolenberg
Abstrakt

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(en)
Institut für Astrophysik
Externe Organisation(en)
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Journal
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Band
118
ISSN
1742-6588
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/118/1/012060
Publikationsdatum
2008
ÖFOS 2012
1030 Physik, Astronomie
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