Qn on temperature

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Qn on temperature

Post #1by makc » 30.01.2007, 11:16

It is my understanding that absolute magnitude M and (total) flux F emitted by the star are related as M = -2.5 log F + const.

That is, if you take temperature T, calculate and integrate black body spectrum across visible wavelengthes, and plot resulting values against M, you should see some sort noisy line.

However, when I actually do that for random 2000 stars, I see this:

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Can someone, please, explain it?

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Post #2by makc » 30.01.2007, 12:27

I thought the fault is on my side so I plotted M against temperature T.

Aside from wonderful stars with millions of kelvins, again, no correspondence:

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Post #3by makc » 30.01.2007, 17:37

never mind, people pointed out that I missed dependance on radius.


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