UNDERSTANDING VARIABLE STARS
CONTENTS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT 11 TYCHO’S AND KEPLER’S STARS 12 THE BEGINNINGS OF MODERN ASTRONOMY 13 SYSTEMATIC VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 14 THE PHOTOGRAPHIC REVOLUTION 15 SPECTROSCOPY 16 CLASSI?CATION AND EXPLANATION 17 PHOTOELECTRIC PHOTOMETRY: THE ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION 18 CONSOLIDATION 19 THE MODERN AGE 110 VARIABLE STARS: THE PRESENT STATUS 21 POSITIONS 22 BINARY AND MULTIPLE STARS 23 STAR CLUSTERS 24 GALAXIES 25 MOTIONS OF THE STARS 26 APPARENT MAGNITUDE 27 DISTANCE 28 ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE AND LUMINOSITY 29 STELLAR MASSES 210 SPECTRA 211 COLOUR 212 TEMPERATURE 213 DIAMETER STARS 214 COMPOSITION 215 ROTATION 216 RADIAL VELOCITY 217 THE HERTZSPRUNG--RUSSELL (H--R) DIAGRAM 218 STAR STRUCTURE 219 STAR FORMATION 220 STAR EVOLUTION 221 STAR DEATH VARIABLE STARS 31 MAGNITUDE AND JULIAN DATE 32 MEASUREMENT OF VARIABLE STARS 33 DISCOVERY AND OBSERVATION 34 ANALYSIS OF VARIABLE STAR DATA 35 CLASSI?CATION 36 CERTI?CATION 37 NOMENCLATURE 38 BIBLIOGRAPHY ROTATING VARIABLE STARS 41 THE SPOTTED SUN 42 SUNLIKE STARS 43 FK COMAE STARS 44 RS CANUM VENATICORUM STARS 45 BY DRACONIS STARS 46 PECULIAR A (AP) STARS 47 PULSARS ECLIPSING VARIABLE STARS 51 OVERVIEW 52 ELLIPSOIDAL VARIABLE STARS 53 CLASSI?CATION OF ECLIPSING VARIABLES 54 ANALYSIS OF ECLIPSING VARIABLES 55 DETACHED ECLIPSING VARIABLES 56 SEMI-DETACHED BINARIES 57 W URSAE MAJORIS STARS -- CONTACT BINARIES 58 SYMBIOTIC BINARY SYSTEMS 59 VV CEPHEI STARS 510 X-RAY BINARIES 511 THE EVOLUTION OF BINARY SYSTEMS 512 TRANSITING EXOPLANETS PULSATING VARIABLE STARS 61 PULSATION MODES 62 PULSATION MECHANISMS 63 MODELLING STELLAR PULSATION 64 NON-LINEAR EFFECTS 65 THE INSTABILITY STRIP(S) 66 HELIOSEISMOLOGY: PULSATIONS OF THE SUN 67 ASTEROSEISMOLOGY 68 CLASSICAL CEPHEID VARIABLE STARS 69 POPULATION II CEPHEIDS (W VIRGINIS STARS) 610 RV TAURI VARIABLES 611 RR LYRAE STARS 612 DELTA SCUTI STARS 613 RAPIDLY OSCILLATING PECULIAR A (ROAP) STARS 614 PULSATING DEGENERATE STARS 615 BETA CEPHEI (BETA CANIS MAJORIS) STARS 616 PULSATING RED GIANTS (PRGS) 617 RED SUPERGIANT (SRC) VARIABLES ERUPTIVE VARIABLE STARS 71 FLARE STARS 72 CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES 73 SUPERNOVAE 74 GAMMA-RAY BURSTERS 75 ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI (AGN) PRE-MAIN-SEQUENCE VARIABLE STARS 81 T TAURI STARS 82 FU ORIONIS STARS 83 HERBIG--HARO OBJECTS 84 HERBIG AE AND BE STARS 85 PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER MISCELLANEOUS VARIABLE STARS 91 BE STARS -- GAMMA CASSIOPEIAE VARIABLES 92 WOLF--RAYET STARS 93 HYPERGIANT VARIABLE STARS 94 R CORONAE BOREALIS (RCB) STARS EPILOGUE 101 VARIABLE STARS AND ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH 102 VARIABLE STARS AND AMATEUR ASTRONOMY 103 VARIABLE STARS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION 104 VARIABLE STARS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC