Category:
Journal Reprints
Sub-Category:
Astrophysics
Date Published:
January 1924
Keywords:
ballistic theory, Mira Ceti, Algol, variable stars
Filename:
LaRosa_RendLincei[trans]_v33n1(1924)3-7.pdf
Publication:
Atti della Reale Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Rendiconti Lincei. [trans]
Comments:
Thomas Miles used Google Translate for English
Abstract:
In a brief Note presented to this R. Academy (2), I had the opportunity to hint at a new explanation of the phenomena of the "stars variables", based on the following assumptions:
1°) that the speed of light is composed with that of the source bright;
2°) that all variable stars are double, or more generally "complex stars".
This second hypothesis contains the extension of a fact directly revealed by observations, telescopic and spectral, in the case of variables of the 3rd class of Scheiner (those of type Algol, and of type β Lirae, 45 in all). For which, indeed, the knowledge of their "double" nature is served to give, albeit in an imperfect way (3), the reason for the periodic change of apparent size; ascribing it - as is known - to occultation periodicity of one of the component stars for part of the other.
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