¹ Department of Astronomy, University of Toronto, Toronto ON Canada M5S 3H8

We describe several projects in which a form of autocorrelation analysis is used on Hipparcos photometry to detect and study pulsating A and B stars --- Cephei stars, Maia stars, Scuti stars, and Be stars. Because of the systematics of the times of the Hipparcos photometric measurements, this method works well on some types of stars, but not on others. We describe some new results. We also comment on the suitability of these projects in research-based science education of undergraduate and senior high school students.

In Observational Aspects of Pulsating B and A Stars, ed. C. Sterken and D.W. Kurtz, ASP Conf. Series, 256, 99-108 (2002)
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