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References and Project Notes: Pulsating Variable
Useful general information can be found at the Sky and Telescope site in the section on variable stars.
A suitable star can be selected from Wils, Lloyd, Klaus catalogue or the GEOS RR Lyrae database.
Information and references to individual stars can obtained from the on-line SIMBAD astronomical database.
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Horace Smith's book on RR Lyrae stars.
Chapter 8 of "The Handbook of Astronomical Image Processing" by Richard Berry and James Burnell is an excellent introduction to photometry. This book also contains very good general information about the reduction of CCD data. A copy is available in the AstroLab and in the University's Main Library
Christian Buil's CCD Astronomy is also another excellent book. A copy is available in the AstroLab and in the University's Main Library
Introduction to Astronomical Photometry by Edwin Budding
It is recommended that an image from the Digital Sky Survey is also produced covering an area of 30'x30' centred on your varaible star. This can be downloaded from the STScI or ESO web site. Save the images in FITS format and display with the FITSVIEW on MS Windows or GAIA on Linux.
Andrew Layden's recent review on the Stellar Absolute Magnitudes via the Statistical Parallax Method. This includes an extensive discussion on the absolute magnitude of RR Lyrae-type stars.
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OGLE RR Lyrae work
- Consistent distances from Baade-Wesselink analyses of Cepheids and RR Lyraes by Geza Kovacs
Local software for the initial data reduction
- Filter Systems
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