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stellar pulsation

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stellar pulsation [′stel·ər pəl′sā·shən]
(astrophysics)
Expansion of a star followed by contraction so that its surface temperature and intrinsic brightness undergo periodic variation.
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The lectures topics include an overview of astronomical databases, space photometry and time series analysis, the virtual observatory, binaries as astrophysical laboratories, binary stars and their light curves, eclipsing binary stars, stellar pulsation, intrinsic variability in multiple systems and clusters, and pro-am collaboration and the AAVSO.
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Los Alamos has been a leader in the field of stellar pulsations for many years; in late May this LANL team is hosting the 19th in a series of international stellar pulsation conferences initiated at Los Alamos in 1971.
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