What Is The Relationship Between Period And Luminosity In Cepheid Variables?
The longer the pulsation period, the more luminous the star. The period-luminosity relation for classical Cepheids was discovered in 1908 by Henrietta Swan Leavitt in an investigation of thousands of variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds. What is Cepheid variables luminosity relationship? Cepheid variables are extremely luminous and very distant ones can be observed and … Read more