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THE NEW ALGOL VARIABLES, Y CYGNI AND R CANIS MAJORIS.—Mr. Chandler has just published in Gould's Astronomical Journal, No. 163, his elements for these two interesting variables. In the case of Y Cygni, it will be recollected (see NATURE, vol. xxxv. pp. 307, 329) that before its period had been fully determined by observation, Mr. Chandler concluded, from the analogy of all the then known stars of the type, that it would prove to be about thirty-six hours. This is now found to be correct, the actual period being id. 11h. 56m. 485. The ground upon which the inference was based was the circumstance that with the other stars of the type the shorter the period of the star the higher is the ratio which the time of oscillation bears to 1he entire period. The first exception to this rule is R Canis Majoris, the variable star discovered by Mr. Sawyer last March (see NATURE, vol. xxxvi. p. 376), the duration of the oscillation for this star being 5h. instead of 6h., as it should be on the same principle.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 37, 140 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/037140a0
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