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Leavitt law
  قانون ِ لویت  
qânun-e Leavitt
Fr.: loi de Leavitt  

Same as the → period-luminosity relation.

See also: Named after Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868-1921), American woman astronomer, who discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of → Cepheid variables (1912); → law.