Papers, etc.

Papers are at the University of Minnesota Archives.

Other References: Historical

Heuvel, E.P.J. van den, “Twee markante Nederlandse sterrenkundigen,” Zenit 24, 12-17 (1997) [on Luyten and Peter van de Kamp, in Dutch].

Kauffner, Peter, “Star Scanner is Cataloging the Universe,” Minnesota Daily, 30 April 1997.

McNally, D., ed., Proceedings of the Twentieth General Assembly of the IAU, Baltimore, MD, August 2 - 11, 1988 (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1990), 1, 4.

Williams, D.B., “Unfinished Business: Luyten’s Harvard Variables - I,” Journal of the American Association of Variable Star Observers 28, no. 1, 12-17 (2000).

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Other References:Scientific

Luyten, W.J., “On the Form of the Distribution Law of Stellar Velocities,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 9, 191-94 (1923).

Gerasimovic B.P. & W.J. Luyten,“On the Distance of the Sun from the Galactic Plane,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 13, 387-90 (1927).

Luyten, Willem J., “On the Motion of the Magellanic Clouds,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 14, 241-45 (1928).

Luyten, W.J., “On the Systematic and Accidental Errors of Modern Trigonometric Parallaxes,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 16, 464-73 (1930).

Luyten, W.J., “The White Dwarfs,” Science 101, 79-82 (1945).

Luyten, Willem J., “The Search for White Dwarfs,” Astronomical Journal 55, 86-88 (1950).

Luyten, Willem J., “White Dwarfs and Degenerate Stars,” Vistas in Astronomy 2, 1048-56 (1956).

Luyten, W.J., “Astrofantasies and Contracts,” Science 145, 231 (1964).

Luyten, W.J. & K.S. Thorne, “Observations on Observational and Other Astronomy,” Science 153, 366-68 (1966).

Luyten, Willem J., ed., Proper Motions: IAU Colloquium No. 7, held at Control Data Corporation, Minneapolis, 21-23 April 1970 (Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1970).

Newcomb, James, Anton E. La Bonte, & Willem J. Luyten, The Automated-Computerized Plate Scanner and Measuring Machine (Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1970).

Luyten, Willem J., White Dwarf Catalog (1970)
http://vizier.hia.nrc.ca/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=III/49

Luyten, W.J., “The White Dwarfs: Discovery and Observation,” in White Dwarfs, Proceedings from IAU Symposium no. 42, Willem J. Luyten, ed. (Springer-Verlag, Dordrecht, 1971), pp. 1-7.

Luyten, W.J., “The Stars of Low Luminosity,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 71, 4813-15 (1974).

Luyten, W.J., “Stellar Motion Survey by Automation,” Science 185, 351-52 (1974).

Luyten, W.J., “Science, Fashion or Fiction?” [letter, with reply following] Observatory 94, 136-38 (1974).

Luyten, Willem J., The Stars of Low Luminosity (Minneapolis, MN, 1977).

Luyten, Willem J., “Statistical HR Diagrams for One Hundred and Fifteen Thousand Proper-Motion Stars,” in The HR Diagram: the 100th anniversary of Henry Norris Russell: Proceedings from IAU Symposium no. 80 held at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., 2-5 November, 1977, A. G. Davis Philip and Donald S. Hayes, eds., (Reidel, Boston, 1978), p. 63-64 (1978).

Luyten, W.J., “Kinematics of Faint White Dwarfs,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 75, 4640-41 (1978).

Luyten, Willem J., “The Stars of Low Luminosity,” Comments on Astrophysics 12, 6, 281-86 (1988) [abstract].

Warren, Wayne H., Jr., Conrad R. Sturch, Barry M. Lasker, Hartmut Jahreiss, & Willem J. Luyten, “A Digitized Version of the NLTT Catalogue of Proper Motions,” Astronomical Journal 97, 1480-84 (1989).

Kirkpatrick, J. Davy, “Pursuing Luyten’s Discoveries: The Quest for Cooler and Nearer Dwarfs,” in Roberta M. Humphreys, ed., Proper Motions and Galactic Astronomy. ASP Conference Series; Vol. 127 (Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 1997), p. 73-81.

Rees, R.F., Jr., R.M. Humphres, & C.S. Cornuelle, “The APS-Luyten Proper Motion Project,” Abstract of paper presented to AAS, June 1998

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Other Works: Popularizations, Fiction, etc.

Luyten, Willem J., The Pageant of the Stars (Doubleday, Doran, & Co., Garden City, NY, 1929, 1933).

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