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Baade-Wesselink method
  روش ِ باده-وسلینک  
raveš-e Bâdé-Veselink (#)
Fr.: méthode de Baade-Wesselink  

A method used to determine the size of certain types of pulsating stars, including Cepheids, from their magnitude variations (photometry) and the corresponding radial velocities (spectroscopy).

Etymology (EN): Baade, from Walter (Wilhelm Heinrich) Baade (1893-1960), German/American astronomer, who made important contributions to the research on variable stars; Wesselink, from Adriaan J. Wesselink (1909-1995), Dutch/American astronomer,
the originator of the method. → method.