Variable Stars in Galactic Globular Clusters

M. Clement, Christine; Muzzin, Adam; W. Dufton, Q.; Ponnampalam, Thivya; Wang, John; Burford, Jay; Richardson, Alan; Rosebery, Tara; F. Rowe, Jason; Sawyer Hogg, Helen

doi:10.1086/323719

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Variable Stars in Galactic Globular Clusters

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Authors:

Christine M. Clement

Adam Muzzin

Q. W. Dufton

Abstract

Based on a search of the literature up to May 2001, the number of known variable stars in Galactic globular clusters is approximately 3000. Of these, more than 2200 have known periods and the majority (approximately 1800) are of the RR Lyrae type. In addition to the RR Lyrae population, there are ap...

Subject

RR Lyrae variable

Cepheid variable

Globular cluster

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