QX Pup : the fascinating yolk of the Rotten Egg Nebula
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Author(s)
Berry, Kristin L
Advisor(s)
Richard P. Binzel and Amanda S. Bosh.
Alternative Title
Fascinating yolk of the Rotten Egg Nebula
Date Issued
2013
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
QX Pup is a known Mira variable at the core of the Rotten Egg Nebula that has not been studied in detail since its discovery in 1983. In this study, four years of photometric data in V and I and two years of photometric data in R and B are analyzed. A period of T = 535.4 ± 8 days, and a magnitude drop of [Delta]mI , = 2.2 ± 0.69 are measured in I, and and phase shifts between the the other three filters and I are determined to be [o]R = 6 ± 40 days, [o]B = 66 ± 64 days, #, [o]v = 16 ± 86 days. These results are used to speculate about the possibility of a light-echo off the Rotten Egg Nebula and the conditions on Earth-like planets around Mira variables.
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Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2013.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 31-32).
Subjects
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
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