Class: kappaMechanism
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~eshaya/astro-ont/owl/astronomy.owl#kappaMechanism
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Thing
- kappaMechanism
Annotations
- label: "kappa mechanism" (string)
- definition: "The process that drives the pulsations of many types of variable star, including Cepheid variables and RR Lyrae stars. It is named from the Greek letter kappa, the symbol for the coefficient of absorption (or opacity ) of stellar material." (string)