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feat(stars): show pulsating stars' light through their cycle - #1495

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A Cepheid's page showed one color sphere. 125 pages now have a Pulsation dataset: ten steps, a tenth of a period apart, each the star's color at that phase's share of its brightest light. The page still opens on Color. Method note.

RY CMa's ten steps in the app

Sources and processing

  • Source: Gaia DR3 vari_cepheid (Ripepi et al. 2023): each star's published G-band Fourier model.
  • Processing: the model read at ten phases; magnitudes to shares of light. Nothing is fitted.
  • Limits: light only; no color or size change (no published calibration found). 49 Milky Way, 38 Magellanic, 34 M33 and 4 M31 stars; the last 38 are tied to their Gaia row by place (1 arcsecond) and period (1%), limits of ours. 352 Cepheid pages stay plain.
  • Open: for 6 stars Gaia's model swings over 0.2 mag beyond Gaia's own measurements (X Pup: 1.54 mag). Drawn as published; the note lists them.

Also fixed: a star with a light-curve veil could not be prepared again since #1300.

No world step was run: on the map these stars stay plain dots until one runs.

Prepared assets

  • Baked, published, inventories committed.

Evidence

Proves the change: headless Chrome on the dev site, RY CMa: each step's disc centre is its share of the star's color within one level. All 125 runtimes read back against their tables: 0 problems.

Clean: type-checks and tests of the touched packages pass; the site lane fails 6 of 1,797 locally, none naming this change.

@alowpoly alowpoly added the pipeline-change Shared pipeline change that legitimately touches more than 12 objects label Oct 8, 2026
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