Variable Stars Working Group

Our focus is to characterize samples of variable stars in the local volume, considering for instance, RR Lyrae and Cepheids, which had been widely used in estimating distances due to their period-luminosity relations, allowing to constrain the structure of their host galaxies. Variable stars have been also used as tracers of chemical abundances. Beyond periodic variables, several transients have been used to trace the underlying large scale structure of the cosmic web.

slack: #smwlv-variablestars

Co-Chairs

Angeles Perez-Villegas

UNAM