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Leavitt law
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English
Period-luminosity relation
Etymology
Discovered in 1908 by Henrietta Swan Leavitt.
Proper noun
1
en astronomy The relationship of direct proportionality between the luminosity of pulsating variable stars and their pulsation periods.
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