Short-Term Variations of LBV’s

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LBV’s are variable on many different time scales from weeks to years or even decades. The typical LBV variations on timescales of years or longer are covered in the paper by Humphreys (this volume). Here I discuss variations of LBV’s on timescales from weeks to years.

Most classes of stars are little studied on these timescales. This also holds true for LBV’s. Therefore the hot star group of the Landessternwarte Heidelberg Started a monitoring program of a few bright LBV’s (and other objects) using the 70cm-telescopes at the Landessternwarte and later the ESO 50cm-telescope at La Silla. For more details about the project see the paper by Kaufer (this volume).