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How do you weigh a star? Masses of RR Lyrae stars revealed through their pulsations
How do you weigh a star? Masses of RR Lyrae stars revealed through their pulsations
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2023. september 08.
Measuring the masses of stars is not always easy, and for the RR Lyrae-type variable stars, in particular, there has been no good way to do this. Our researchers are the first to determine the masses of such stars using seismic models.
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