English Explanatory Dictionary

Leavitt law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. The relationship of direct proportionality between the luminosity of pulsating variable stars and their pulsation periods.

Word forms

Leavitt law the Leavitt law

Etymology

Discovered in 1908 by Henrietta Swan Leavitt.

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