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Doctoral thesis
English

Variability and standard candles in the era of new large-scale surveys

Contributors

Palaversa, Lovro

Directors

Eyer, Laurent

Defense date

2015-11-09

Abstract

This thesis focuses on four diverse topics, whose common denominator is the variability revealed by the large scale surveys: i) development of a classified variable star catalog with an unprecedented depth, area coverage, variety of classified variable star types and purity of classification, at the time; ii) an analysis of an extreme coronal-line emitter caused by a tidal disruption of a star by a supermassive black hole; iii) calibration of a new stellar distance estimator applicable at galactic and extragalactic scales and iv) development of photometric pipelines used in the follow-up networks for the Gaia satellite.

Keywords

  • Astronomy
  • Astrophysics
  • Surveys
  • Standard candles
  • Variable stars
  • Stars
  • Transients
  • Black hole
  • Tidal disruption
  • AGN
  • Photometry
  • CCD

UNIGE affiliation entities

Funding

  • European Commission - Gaia Research for European Astronomy Training - ITN [264895]

Citation (ISO format)

PALAVERSA, Lovro. Variability and standard candles in the era of new large-scale surveys. Doctoral Thesis, 2015. doi: 10.13097/archive-ouverte/unige:80550

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