SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES OF POLARIS: GETTING BACK TO NORMAL LIFE OF A CEPHEID?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Based on 583 radial velocity (RV) measurements we obtained at the Three College Observatory (TCO, North Carolina, USA) in 2015–2024, (including 396 not previously analyzed from 2020–2024) as well as on 236 RV data from the German amateur R. Bücke (2011–2022), we calculated the pulsation period and amplitude of the Cepheid Polaris Aa system (α UMi). The analysis showed that the pulsation period was stable within a few minutes in 2020–2024. During this time, the pulsation amplitude was increasing and reached the 1960s level (4–6 km s−1), when its sharp decline began. Since its new growth began after Polaris Ab, the system secondary component, passed a periastron, we concluded that the observed amplitude changes were due to its orbital motion. It is clear that Polaris Aa is returning to normal pulsating activity.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".