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Light curve of AC Herculis, a fairly typical RV Tauri variable

RV Tauri variables are luminous variable stars that have distinctive light variations with alternating deep and shallow minima.

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RV Tauri variable

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RV Tauri variables are luminous variable stars that have distinctive light variations with alternating deep and shallow minima. German astronomer Friedrich...

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RV Tauri

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RV Tauri (RV Tau) is a star in the constellation Taurus. It is a yellow supergiant and is the prototype of a class of pulsating variables known as RV...

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R Scuti

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is a pulsating variable known as an RV Tauri variable. It was discovered in 1795 by Edward Pigott at a time when only a few variable stars were known...

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HP Lyrae

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Lyr) is a variable star in the constellation Lyra, with a visual magnitude varying between 10.2 and 10.8. It is likely to be an RV Tauri variable, an unstable...

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Variable star

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several magnitudes. A well-known subtype of Orion variables are the T Tauri variables. Variability of T Tauri stars is due to spots on the stellar surface...

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U Monocerotis

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Mon) is a pulsating variable star and spectroscopic binary in the constellation Monoceros. The primary star is an RV Tauri variable, a cool luminous post-AGB...

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SX Centauri

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SX Centauri is a variable star in the constellation Centaurus. An RV Tauri variable, its light curve alternates between deep and shallow minima, varying...

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Instability strip

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intersects the horizontal branch; and the Cepheid variables where it crosses the supergiants. RV Tauri variables are also often considered to lie on the instability...

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AC Herculis

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AC Herculis, is an RV Tauri variable and spectroscopic binary star in the constellation of Hercules. It varies in brightness between apparent magnitudes...

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R Sagittae

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R Sagittae is an RV Tauri variable star in the constellation Sagitta that varies from magnitude 8.0 to 10.5 in 70.77 days. It is a post-AGB low mass yellow...

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Semiregular variable star

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next-brightest SRa example, but it is suggested that it may actually be an RV Tauri variable, which would make it by far the brightest member of that class. There...

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Sagitta

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understanding star behaviour. R Sagittae is a member of the rare RV Tauri variable class of star. It ranges in magnitude from 8.2 to 10.4. It is around...

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T Centauri

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semiregular variable, though Sebastian Otero of the American Association of Variable Star Observers has noted its curve more aligned with RV Tauri variable stars...

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List of stars in Taurus

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35m 55.20s +16° 30′ 35.1″ 0.87 −0.63 65 K5III Cor Tauri, Parilicium; 13th-brightest star, variable β Tau β 112 35497 25428 05h 26m 17.50s +28° 36′ 28...

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List of semiregular variable stars

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This is a list of semiregular variable stars. Variability ranges are taken from the General Catalogue of Variable Stars (GCVS) where these are visual...

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Lyra

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binary, it was theorized to be an RV Tauri variable in 2002, but if so, it would be by far the hottest such variable discovered. In the extreme east is...

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Outline of astronomy

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Cephei variable PV Telescopii variable Long Period and Semiregular Mira variable Semiregular variable Slow irregular variable Other RV Tauri variable Alpha...

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T Tauri

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T Tauri is a variable star in the constellation Taurus, the prototype of the T Tauri stars. It was discovered in October 1852 by John Russell Hind. T Tauri...

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Supergiant

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instability. Further types of variable stars such as RV Tauri variables and PV Telescopii variables are often described as supergiants. RV Tau stars are frequently...

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List of variable stars

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there are over 52,011 known variable stars, with more being discovered regularly, so a complete list of every single variable is impossible at this place...

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Z Apodis

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Catalogue of Variable Stars as a cataclysmic variable star, it appears that it is a pulsating variable star, and has been classed as an RV Tauri variable star...

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Lidiya Tseraskaya

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the Moscow Observatory, where she discovered 219 variable stars; among them (1905) RV Tauri variable and recognized its uniqueness. The Venusian crater...

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Type II Cepheid

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usually alternating deep and shallow minima, belong to the RV Tauri subclass. RV Tauri variables are usually classified by a formal period from deep minimum...

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Sigurd Einbu

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Geminorum 2. Also in 1912 he introduced a new class of variable stars, the RV Tauri variable stars. He spelled his family name Enebo during large parts...

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S Vulpeculae

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pulsating variable that grows and shrinks as it changes in brightness, it has been variously classified as an RV Tauri variable, a semiregular variable star...

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