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The 13 pages that link to Period–luminosity relation, each with the reason it gives.

• Cosmic distance ladderRelated: It turns Cepheid pulsation periods into luminosities and therefore distances.

• Edwin HubbleRelated: It turned Hubble’s observed Cepheid periods into distance estimates.

• Cepheid variableRelated: It turns a measured Cepheid period into an estimate of its true brightness.

• Standard candleRelated: It supplies luminosity estimates for variable-star candles from their measured periods.

• RR Lyrae variableRelated: In infrared bands, RR Lyrae periods help estimate luminosities and distances.

• Mira variableRelated: Mira stars’ long periods make their luminosities estimable once their distances are known.

• Stellar pulsationRelated: This relation converts a Cepheid’s observed period into a distance estimate.

• Classical Cepheid variableRelated: A Cepheid’s measured period predicts its luminosity, which can be compared with observed brightness.

• Instability stripRelated: Cepheids in the strip use this relation to measure distances beyond the Milky Way.

• Type II CepheidRelated: Type II Cepheids follow period–luminosity relations used to estimate their distances.

• Yellow supergiantRelated: Yellow supergiant Cepheids use this relation to measure distances.