Revisiting the Unnamed Fleming Variables (Abstract)

Volume 39 number 1 (2011)

Kristine Larsen

Physics and Earth Sciences, Central Connecticut State University, 1615 Stanley Street, New Britain, CT 06053; larsen@ccsu.edu

Abstract

(Abstract only) In a 1998 article in JAAVSO, Dorrit Hoffleit brought attention to fourteen of the nearly 300 variables directly discovered by Williamina Fleming or discovered under her direction at the HCO. These fourteen stars had not been given permanent designations in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars at the time of Hoffleit’s article. In the intervening twelve years since the publication of her study, a number of these stars have been further observed, both by AAVSO members and automated telescopes (such as Hipparcos). This poster will revisit these fourteen stars and update their status as variable stars.