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Continuous Stellar Radiation
Author

George E. Hrabovsky
Organization: University of Wisconsin at Madison
Old MathSource #

0206-367
Revision date

1994-03-09
Description

All stars in the sky seem to differ in brightness. Brightness is in fact the energy flux (energy per unit area per unit time) received from the star. This brightness can be quantified with modern instruments. The brightness of a star is referred to in terms of magnitudes, with the lower number indicating a brighter star. This notebook introduces and develops a scale for measuring stellar brightness.
Subject

*Science > Astronomy
Keywords

Astronomy, Stellar brightness, stellar radiation, stellar magnitude
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