LONG-PERIOD VARIABILITY INoCETI

Long-Period Variability in o Ceti

We carried out a new and sensitive search for long-period variability in the prototype of the Mira class of long-period pulsating variables, o Ceti (Mira A), the closest and brightest Mira variable. We conducted this search using an unbroken light curve from 1902 to the present assembled from the visual data archives of five major variable star observing organizations from around the world. We ...

Long Period Exoplanets

Recent imaging campaigns indicate the possible existence of massive planets on ∼> 1000 year orbits about a few percent of normal stars. Such objects are not easily explained in most current planet formation models. In this Letter we use a large ensemble of N-body simulations to evaluate the potential for planet scattering during relaxation of dynamically active systems to explain very long peri...

A Long Gestation Period

Long Period Fibre Gratings

Heart period variability during vagal nerve stimulation

Vagal nerve stimulation is an emerging therapy for epilepsy, yet little is known regarding the effects of this stimulation on heart period variability. We selected 10 patients (two female, eight male) who were receiving high-frequency, high-intensity left vagal nerve stimulation for intractable epilepsy. Electrocardiogram data were recorded for a 7 min baseline, 2.5 min of stimulation and a 7 m...