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Galaxy111
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Hi all,
Recently I came across an interesting question:
"...Why do astronomers attribute the observed Doppler shifts of a Cepheid variable as pulsation, rather than to some other causes, such as orbital motion? "
OK, I have my ideas about the problem as there is a correlation between e. g. the max. blueshift (spectrum),the max surface temp. (from the Wien-displacement law I guess) and the apparent magnitude (observation) of the star.
But still, is there a way to tell it is a cepheid from its pure spectrum without knowing more?
Greetings
Galaxy
Recently I came across an interesting question:
"...Why do astronomers attribute the observed Doppler shifts of a Cepheid variable as pulsation, rather than to some other causes, such as orbital motion? "
OK, I have my ideas about the problem as there is a correlation between e. g. the max. blueshift (spectrum),the max surface temp. (from the Wien-displacement law I guess) and the apparent magnitude (observation) of the star.
But still, is there a way to tell it is a cepheid from its pure spectrum without knowing more?
Greetings
Galaxy