Arlo U. Landolt

Arlo Udell Landolt (born September 29, 1935) is an American astronomer. Landolt has worked principally in photometry and has published a number of widely used lists of standard stars. Landolt was the first discoverer of a pulsating white dwarf when he observed in 1965 and 1966 that the luminosity of HL Tau 76 varied with a period of approximately 12.5 minutes. The asteroid 15072 Landolt is named after him.

Arlo U. Landolt

Arlo Udell Landolt (born September 29, 1935) is an American astronomer. Landolt has worked principally in photometry and has published a number of widely used lists of standard stars. Landolt was the first discoverer of a pulsating white dwarf when he observed in 1965 and 1966 that the luminosity of HL Tau 76 varied with a period of approximately 12.5 minutes. The asteroid 15072 Landolt is named after him.