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Pulsating variables from the OGLE and Araucaria projects

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 نشر من قبل Grzegorz Pietrzynski prof.
 تاريخ النشر 2014
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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We present some results of long term studies of pulsating stars conducted in the course of the OGLE and Araucaria projects. In particular very scarce eclipsing binaries containing pulsating stars are discussed. Such systems provide a unique opportunity to improve calibration of the cosmic distance scale and to better calibrate stellar evolutionary models.

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