Cosmic dust holds in question the period-luminosity relation in Cepheid stars

Saturday, December 12, 2009 - 04:35 in Astronomy & Space

The Cepheid period-luminosity relation claims stars with long periods are brighter than those with short periods including measurements of the distance to the star based on the Baade-Wesselink method are placed in question by cosmic dust.

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