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The Classification of Red Supergiant Variables

Volume 5 number 2 (1976)

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Horace A. Smith

Abstract

The GCVS classification of red supergiant variables is discussed and it is suggested that a more significant division can be made between those variables of small amplitude, such as mu Cephei, and those of large amplitude, such as S Persei.