Leavitt law

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Period-luminosity relation

Etymology edit

Discovered in 1908 by Henrietta Swan Leavitt.

Proper noun edit

the Leavitt law

(astronomy) The relationship of direct proportionality between the luminosity of pulsating variable stars and their pulsation periods.

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