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Identified a strong relation between pulsation period and brightness among variable stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud.
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The record concerns Leavitt’s analysis prepared for the 1912 Harvard circular; later calibration and distance-scale applications are separate.
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Henrietta S. Leavitt
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Leavitt: the period-brightness relation in Magellanic Cloud variables
Identified a strong relation between pulsation period and brightness among variable stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud.
Scientific scope
The record concerns Leavitt’s analysis prepared for the 1912 Harvard circular; later calibration and distance-scale applications are separate.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
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Henrietta S. Leavitt
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.