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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
At the Leiden Southern Station a large program on galactic pulsating variables has been carried out with the Walraven five-channel photometer. For 170 Cepheids and 100 RR Lyrae stars south of δ =+15° there are now available 30000 VBLUW measurements (Walraven et al., 1964; Pel, 1976; Lub, 1977b). These data are used to derive physical properties of the variables. A general discussion of the VBLUW system and its calibration for A-G stars by means of the theoretical fluxes of Kurucz (1975) has been given by Lub and Pel (1977). Following this calibration, reddening and blanketing corrections, as well as effective temperatures, gravities, and their cyclical variations were determined, and luminosity and radius curves were derived (Cepheids: Pel, 1977; RR Lyrae stars: Lub, 1977a). We will present here some interesting results that have been obtained from these data. A more detailed discussion is in preparation.