- units,
luminosity is
measured in
joules per second, or watts. In astronomy,
values for
luminosity are
often given in the
terms of the
luminosity of the...
- object's
apparent distance and
luminosity distance.
Another way to
express the
luminosity distance is
through the flux-
luminosity relationship, F = L 4 π D...
- Look up
luminosity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Luminosity is the
total amount of
energy radiated by an
object per unit time.
Luminosity may also...
-
solar luminosity (L☉) is a unit of
radiant flux (power
emitted in the form of photons)
conventionally used by
astronomers to
measure the
luminosity of stars...
- The
Eddington luminosity, also
referred to as the
Eddington limit, is the
maximum luminosity a body (such as a star) can
achieve when
there is balance...
-
integrated luminosities, as the
higher the
integrated luminosity, the more data is
available to analyze. Here are a few
examples of the
luminosity of certain...
- In astrophysics, the m****–
luminosity relation is an
equation giving the
relationship between a star's m**** and its
luminosity,
first noted by
Jakob Karl...
- very
large distances (outside the
Milky Way) the
luminosity distance dL (distance
defined using luminosity measurements) must be used
instead of d, because...
- In astronomy, a
luminosity function gives the
number of
stars or
galaxies per
luminosity interval.
Luminosity functions are used to
study the properties...
-
times the
solar luminosity. At
metallicity Z = 0.01 the
luminosity is 1.34
times solar luminosity. At
metallicity Z = 0.04 the
luminosity is 0.89 times...
