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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2018
The purpose: To look at period changes in pulsating variables from the point of view of stellar evolution. Is there evidence of systematic, slow changes that might be caused by the changes in mean density during passage across the Instability Strip?
The data: O – C diagrams for 67 RR Lyrae stars and Cepheids by student assistants at the Maria Mitchell Observatory, and for 88 northern Cepheids by L. Szabados
The method: Least-squares lines and parabolae (unless the O – C diagram shows that the period has changed in both directions). The rate of change of period comes from the coefficient of the square term in the parabola. The principal feature of these analyses is that the rate is taken to be non-zero only if the parabola is significantly better than the linear fit, at the 2-sigma level.
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