{"title":"The development of the theory of stellar pulsations","authors":"Alfred Gautschy","doi":"10.1016/S0083-6656(06)00051-1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A short account is presented of the struggle to understand and provide a theory for stellar pulsations. The observational and theoretical developments from the discovery of δ Cephei in 1784 up to Baker and Kippenhahn's key paper of 1962 are described and their significance discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101275,"journal":{"name":"Vistas in Astronomy","volume":"41 1","pages":"Pages 95-115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0083-6656(06)00051-1","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Vistas in Astronomy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0083665606000511","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A short account is presented of the struggle to understand and provide a theory for stellar pulsations. The observational and theoretical developments from the discovery of δ Cephei in 1784 up to Baker and Kippenhahn's key paper of 1962 are described and their significance discussed.