Students Watching Stars Evolve

John Percy; Drew MacNeil; Leila Meema-Coleman; Karen Morenz

Students Watching Stars Evolve

Physics Education 2012-02-28 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Authors: John Percy , Drew MacNeil , Leila Meema-Coleman , Karen Morenz

Abstract

We describe a study of period changes in 59 RR Lyrae stars, using times of maximum brightness from the GEOS database. The work was carried out by outstanding senior high school students in the University of Toronto Mentorship Program. This paper is written in such a way that high school or undergraduate physics and astronomy students could use it as a guide and template for carrying out original research, by studying period changes in these and other types of variable stars.

Keywords

rr lyrae stars

Cite

@article{arxiv.1202.5773,
  title  = {Students Watching Stars Evolve},
  author = {John Percy and Drew MacNeil and Leila Meema-Coleman and Karen Morenz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.5773},
  year   = {2012}
}

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