https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201510106008
Connection between the period and the amplitude of the Blazhko effect
Konkoly Observatory, MTA CSFK, Konkoly Thege u. 15-17. H-1121 Budapest, Hungary
a e-mail: benko@konkoly.hu
Published online: 23 September 2015
We found a possible relationship between the modulation period and the amplitude of the Blazhko RR Lyrae stars: long modulation period generally implies high modulation amplitude while the short modulation period results in small amplitude. Although this effect is much more a tendency than a strict rule, it can be detected easily in the space-born time series data produced by Kepler and CoRoT. Good quality ground-based data show this relation, too. This phenomenon could give us constraints for the physics of the Blazhko effect.
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