• DOI:10.1088/2041-8205/745/2/L32
Corpus ID: 118625176

THE PERIOD CHANGE OF THE CEPHEID POLARIS SUGGESTS ENHANCED MASS LOSS

@article{Neilson2012THEPC,
  title={THE PERIOD CHANGE OF THE CEPHEID POLARIS SUGGESTS ENHANCED MASS LOSS},
  author={H. Neilson and S. Engle and E. Guinan and N. Langer and R. Wasatonic and D. Williams},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2012},
  volume={745}
}

• H. Neilson, S. Engle, +3 authors D. Williams
• Published 2012
• Physics
• The Astrophysical Journal

Polaris is one of the most observed stars in the night sky, with recorded observations spanning more than 200 years. From these observations, one can study the real-time evolution of Polaris via the secular rate of change of the pulsation period. However, the measurements of the rate of period change do not agree with predictions from state-of-the-art stellar evolution models. We show that this may imply that Polaris is currently losing mass at a rate of yr–1 based on the difference between… Expand

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