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The Z CamPaign: Year Five

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 نشر من قبل Mike Simonsen
 تاريخ النشر 2014
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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Entering into the fifth year of the Z CamPaign, the author has developed a website summarizing our findings which will also act as a living catalog of bona fide Z Cam stars, suspected Z Cams and Z Cam impostors. In this paper we summarize the findings of the first four years of research, introduce the website and its contents to the public and discuss the way forward into year five and beyond.

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