The future of massive variability searches
| dc.creator | Paczynski, Bohdan | |
| dc.date | 1996-09-09 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:21:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:21:54Z | |
| dc.description | This is a personal review of various issues related to massive photometric and astrometric searches. A complete inventory of variable stars down to almost any magnitude limit will improve our understanding of the stellar evolution and the galactic structure. A search for detached eclipsing binaries will improve the distance scale, the value of the Hubble constant, and the age of the oldest stars. A search for supernovae will help the determination of cosmological parameters Omega and Lambda. A search for microlensing events will provide insight into the stellar mass function, dark matter, and may lead to a discovery of earth-mass planets. | |
| dc.description | 14 pages, 3 figures, latex, uses conf_iap.sty, invited talk at the 12th IAP Colloquium: Variable stars and the astrophysical returns of microlensing surveys, Paris, IAP, July 7-12, 1996 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9609073 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9609073 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/10674 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | The future of massive variability searches | |
| dc.type | text |