Back متغير إهليلجي دوار Arabic Variable elipsoidal rotante AST Variable el·lipsoidal rotatori Catalan Ellipsoid veränderlicher Stern German Variable elipsoidal rotante Spanish متغیر چرخشی بیضی‌گون Persian Étoile variable ellipsoïdale French Variabile ellissoidale rotante Italian 楕円体状変光星 Japanese Вртечка елипсоидна променлива ѕвезда Macedonian

Rotating ellipsoidal variable

A light curve for Spica, adapted from Tkachenko et al. (2016)[1]

Rotating ellipsoidal variables are a class of close binary variable star systems whose components are ellipsoidal. They are not eclipsing, but fluctuations in apparent magnitude occur due to changes in the amount of light emitting area visible to the observer. Typical brightness fluctuations do not exceed 0.1 magnitudes.[2]

The brightest rotating ellipsoidal variable is Spica (α Virginis).[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Tkachenko2016 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Morris1985 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference gcvs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia · View on Wikipedia

Developed by Tubidy