Arlo U. Landolt

Arlo U. Landolt (born 1935) is an American astronomer. Landolt has worked principally in photometry and has published a number of widely used lists [ [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1983AJ.....88..439L "UBVRI" photometric standard stars around the celestial equator] , Arlo U. Landolt, "Astronomical Journal", 88, #3 (March 1983), pp. 439–460.] [ [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1973AJ.....78..959L "UBV" photoelectric sequences in the celestial equatorial selected areas 92–115] , Arlo U. Landolt, "Astronomical Journal", 78, #9 (November 1973), pp. 959–981.] [ [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1992AJ....104..340L "UBVRI" photometric standard stars in the magnitude range 11.5] , Arlo U. Landolt, "Astronomical Journal" 104, #1 (July 1992), pp. 340–371, 436–491.] of standard stars. [ [http://www.phys.lsu.edu/faculty/landolt/landolt.html Arlo U. Landolt] , web page at Louisiana State University. Accessed on line September 19, 2007.] [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=15072 15072 Landolt (1999 BS12)] , web page from the "JPL Small-Body Database Browser". Accessed on line September 19, 2007.] In 1995, he received the George van Biesbroeck Prize from the American Astronomical Society. [ [http://www.aas.org/grants/awards.php AAS — Grants, Prizes and Awards] , web page, accessed on line September 19, 2007.] Landolt was the first discoverer of a pulsating white dwarf when he observed in 1965 and 1966 that the luminosity of HL Tau 76 varied with a period of approximately 12.5 minutes. [ [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1968ApJ...153..151L A New Short-Period Blue Variable] , Arlo U. Landolt, "Astrophysical Journal" 153, #1 (July 1968), pp. 151–164.] The asteroid 15072 Landolt is named after him.

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* Arlo U. Landolt pages at Louisiana State University: [http://www.phys.lsu.edu/faculty/landolt/landolt.html] , [http://www.phys.lsu.edu/dept/people/landolt.html]