Lyra - V473 Lyrae Classical Cepheid variable

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V473 Lyrae is an unusual Classical Cepheid variable with a range of 5.99 to 6.35 and a period of 1.49078 days. It is unique in that it is the only known Cepheid in the Milky Way to undergo periodic phase and amplitude changes, analogous to the Blazhko effect in RR Lyrae stars  At 1.5 days, its period was the shortest known for a classical Cepheid at the time of its discovery.  Wikipedia


Classical Cepheids

Classical Cepheids (also known as Population I Cepheids, Type I Cepheids, or Delta Cephei variables) are a type of Cepheid variable star. They are population I variable stars that exhibit regular radial pulsations with periods of a few days to a few weeks and visual amplitudes from a few tenths of a magnitude to about 2 magnitudes.

There exists a well-defined relationship between a classical Cepheid variable's luminosity and pulsation period, securing Cepheids as viable standard candles for establishing the Galactic and extragalactic distance scales.

Hubble Space Telescope observations of classical Cepheid variables have enabled firmer constraints on Hubble's law.

Classical Cepheids have also been used to clarify many characteristics of our galaxy, such as the Sun's height above the galactic plane and the Galaxy's local spiral structure.

Around 800 classical Cepheids are known in the Milky Way Galaxy, out of an expected total of over 6,000. Several thousand more are known in the Magellanic Clouds, with more known in other galaxies.  The Hubble Space Telescope has identified classical Cepheids in NGC 4603, which is 100 million light years distant.
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