Questions tagged [luminosity]
Questions regarding the amount of energy produced by an object per unit of time.
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Is luminosity distance related to both heliocentric redshift and CMB restframe redshift？
The luminosity distance $d_l=(1+z)r(z)$,
where $r(z)$ is given by $r(z)=cH^{-1}_0\int_{0}^{z}\frac{dz'}{E(z')}$.
When I use SN dataset Pantheon, I find there are two redshift $z_{cmb}$ and $z_{hel}$.
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On finding the magnitude of Stars
I am wondering how I would be able to predict the Magnitude of fictional stars, given we know enough about them. As the formulae I can find online are mostly getting overly high values that don't seem ...
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DIY Sky Quality Meter: Conversion between Illuminance and Luminance
I am trying to create a homemade Sky Quality Meter (SQM) using a TSL2591 light sensor. This sensor measures Illumination (lux), but SQMs measure Luminance (mpsas). I have seen that there are many ...
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How luminous does a brown dwarf have to be to illuminate an Earth-sized planet with 0.5 lux at 2,000,000 kilometers away?
A brown dwarf is a deuterium-fusing substellar object, and, in the cases of the larger ones, a lithium-fusing one. They often emit electromagnetic radiation in frequencies that humans cannot see. ...
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Calculating the luminosity of a comet
Assuming a 9-km comet is heading towards the Earth and it is at distance 5.2 AU away from the Sun, what is its luminosity? Assume that it has an albedo of 0.5?
For now, I have calculated the Sun's ...
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Finding stellar radii
Is apparent magnitude of star, distance(in pc) and effective temperature enough to calculate its stellar radii or we need some extra information?
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Measuring the mass of the luminous matter in a galaxy
The mass of total matter in a galaxy can be measured using the rotation curve of the galaxy. However, how do people determine the mass of luminous matter in the galaxy, as a function of the distance ...
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Brightness and flux density
The alpha star in a constellation has the highest brightness, but does that mean it has the highest flux density among the other stars in the constellation?
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How to find luminosity from a light curve? [closed]
I am currently trying to find the luminosity from the light curve. I have the data about the distance, counts/sec and the energy range in which it is measured for an object. What equation can be used ...
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Could a black hole's accretion disk be bright through natural means?
This question is based on this description of the Cormoran Supermassive Black Hole in the Orion Arm's website:
Surrounding this event horizon is an (apparently artificial) accretion
disk about 4AU in ...
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What does a + (plus) mean in stellar classification?
I've noticed some stellar classifications might look like this:
A0IV+G: (HD 70003)
F3IV+F0IV (HD 82434)
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Spectral class and luminosity of hydrogen bomb explosions?
Since hydrogen bombs detonating are like tiny little stars, I wonder what luminosity and spectral classification they would get if one were to categorize them like this. E.g. Starfish Prime and the ...
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How to calculate rest-frame luminosity in a specific wavelength band?
For instance, I have a set of templates whose y is in Jy and x is in Angstroms. I have both of their rest-frame and obs-frame wavelength (i.e. redshift). I want to know their luminosity in one ...
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Is it dangerous to look at an L-type brown dwarf from too close?
Are some L-type brown dwarves bright enough so that it would be dangerous to the eyes if one looked at them from habitable distance or closer? If not, are the weakest M-type stars undangerous to look ...
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How is the difference of bolometric magnitudes not dependent on the stars' radii?
The difference of 2 bolometric magnitudes is given by:
$$M_{bol, ★} - M_{bol, ☉} = -2.5 \cdot \log \left( \frac{L_★}{L_☉} \right)$$
But Pogson's equation is:
$$M_{bol, ★} - M_{bol, ☉} = -2.5 \cdot \...
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HR diagram x-axis (color) and redshift?
I've read several articles and watched some videos on the HR diagram, but no-one seems to mention the effect of redshift on the color of a star. Is there some calibration step that needs to be applied ...
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Is something wrong with my luminosity calculation?
A few million years after a white dwarf forms, its surface temperature reaches $100000\text{K}$, while its radius is $0.01R_\odot$. Would this mean that its luminosity is $\Big(\dfrac{100000}{5778}\...
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How to calculate galaxy bolometric luminosity?
I am a bit confused by bolometric corrections. If I have an x-ray luminosity in the 2-10 keV band, how does one convert that to $L_{bol}$?
From Netzer's book The Physics and Evolution of Active ...
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Schechter Luminosity Function fitting plot of galaxies
I would like to plot the Schechter Luminosity function of galaxies. Here is my data(I have the Luminosity L[Ha] in erg/s).
I would like to plot like this figure from this paper.
In this paper, they ...
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Estimating Sun luminosity from first principles
In a lecture, it was claimed that luminosity can be estimated by dividing how much energy there is in the Sun with the typical time it takes for a photon to get out from the centre of the Sun to its ...
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Equilibrium Temperature for Extremely Cold Planets: Incorporating the CMB and Intrinsic Radiation
I want to check if I'm doing this right. I'm computing the equilibrium temperature for planets where the CMB and/or the planet's intrinsic radiation (as in weakly radiating jovians) matters.
I start ...
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Does photon capture in a black hole (or any other "very compact" object) reduce the luminosity/photon flux from its self isotropic emission?
I don't know if this is even a feasible question or if I have a point in asking so.
Let's say we can model the radiation coming from a very compact object, such as a BH with an accretion disc or any ...
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How to obtain a luminosity from an SED
I have a spectral energy distribution (flux densities measured at several frequencies), and have fitted a 'greybody' model to these points.
I am confused about how I use this information to determine ...
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What units are used for the Stefan-Boltzmann law?
I have a star with given temperature in Kelvin and radius in solar radii. I tried to calculate the luminosity of the star using Stefan Boltzmann's law, and got an absurd number (over 1 million). What ...
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Increase in Luminosity of the star
The Luminosity of a star is proportional to the 4 th power of its temperature and square of its radius. Also the mass-luminosity relationship says that the luminosity of star is proportional to ...
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Luminosity of Neowise
So, I have been trying to figure out the bolometric luminosity of the comet C/2020 F3 (Neowise) on the 22nd of June, 2020. At that time, Neowise was $1.4$ AU away from Earth and had an apparent ...
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Samples from the double Schechter luminosity funcion
I want to produce samples from a double Schechter luminosity function.
Ideally, I am looking for a python implementation of this problem but am open to other tools if necessary.
Do you know of any ...
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What is meant by the notation $A^{\times{B}}_{\div{C}}$; where A,B,C are real numbers?
I have come across a few papers using the notation $A^{\times{B}}_{\div{C}}$; where A,B,C are real number. For example, $3000^{\times{3}}_{\div{4}}$.
An example can be Eqn (4) in Stern & Laor (...
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Converting Light curve to Luminosity
So I'm currently working around a specific variable star, α Ori and I want to determine it's luminosity...I do only have the light curve (driven from V-optical photometric band - Johnson V from AAVSO)....
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Strip Brightness in a Spherical System
My question concerns the following problem, published in Galactic Dynamics by Binney and Tremaine and based on a work by Schwarzschild.
Specifically, I am having difficulties in deriving the given ...
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How do I calculate the surface temperature of a star from luminosity? [duplicate]
How do I calculate the surface temperature of a star from luminosity? I've been trying to delve into speculative solar systems for a bit, and I've heard the surface temperature of a star can be ...
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How does the Eddington limit make the gravitational field of stars asymmetric?
This answer to Is the gravitational field of the sun uniform? says:
Very large stars are asymmetric due to being close to the Eddington limit. The Sun is too small of a star to have the kind of ...
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Is there a relation between mass, radius, and luminosity in deuterium-burning brown dwarfs?
I'm a worldbuilder and my setting has a lot of brown dwarfs.
While I'm trying to keep my setting as science-compliant as possible, I can't seem to find any resources for brown dwarfs like there are ...
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Total luminosity of total population of galaxies!
I'm trying to get the total luminosity of a total population of galaxies.
I have the Schechter Function like
$$\Phi(L) = \frac{\Phi^{*}}{L^{*}} \left(\frac{L}{L^{*}}\right)^{\alpha} \exp \left(\frac{...
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Units confusion while calculating flux of a star using distance and luminosity, Python
I am trying to calculate the flux of various stars in Python. I am using the information from a database containing all stars in Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star, and Gliese catalogs (almost 120,000 stars)....
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Does the luminosity of a star on its main sequence increase or remain approximately constant?
From my understanding, the luminosity of a main sequence star should increase because, in its core, hydrogen is being burnt into helium which means that the number density of hydrogen decreases and ...
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Visible Stars in Andromeda Galaxy
So when I look at images taken of Andromeda, I see a lot of individual stars.
Image by André van der Hoeven
It seems to me that the actual individual stars that far away would be too small to ...
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What is the most appropriate way to estimate the helium composition of a star?
Say we have to estimate the helium content in Proxima Centauri.
We begin by calculating the content of helium in the Sun (source): $24.85$% of $2.10^{30}$ kg.
Mostly all the energy is generated due ...
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How to convert luminosity at rest frame wavelength of 1450 A to absolute magnitude at 1450 A?
How do I convert the luminosity (erg sec$^{-1}$ Hz$^{-1}$) of a quasar at a rest frame wavelength of 1450 Angstroms to absolute magnitude at the same wavelength?
I know that the bolometric ...
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What is the spectral energy distribution (SED)?
I see the SED being referred to as several different things and now I am confused about what it actually is and what are its units. In particular, I find the SED Wikipedia page not understandable.
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Convolve a SED with a filter. Is convoluting the mathematical operation?
I know that in order to get the Flux of a star (or something else) in a particular filter from its SED (luminosity per unit wavelength), I need to convolve the spectrum (SED) with the filter response. ...
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Can a star emit a larger fraction of its total light in the visual range than the Sun does
If one sets both the bolometric and visual luminosity of the Sun to 1 (and use a linear scale), can a star then have a higher visual than bolometric luminosity?
It makes sense that this will not be ...
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Relationship between IMF and time spent during an evolutionary phase
I was reading a little about stellar evolution and was wondering whether there was any relationship between the lifetime of an evolutionary phase and the IMF, I searched on google but all I found were ...
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Formula to calculate B-V index? [duplicate]
Is there a formlua or equation to calculate a star's B-V index based on it's observed frequencies in the B and V spectrums ? I have unfortunately not been able to find anything...
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Finding the solar radius from temperature and luminosity
This question has eluded me for days; I can't seem to solve it.
A certain star has a temperature twice that of the Sun and a luminosity 55 times greater than the solar value. What is its radius, in ...
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Estimating a star's radius, temperature, and luminosity based on its mass
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I've been trying to generate ballpark estimates for the radius, temperature and luminosity of stars in the main sequence based solely on their masses (...
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How Wide Would the Habitable Zone Be in a Singular Red Giant System?
Astrobiologists looking for signs of life outside Earth usually take excitement over planets orbiting red giant stars because a larger, brighter star usually means a farther-away but still wider ...
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Why is the Sun's Luminosity not equal to the Zero Point Luminosity?
I was doing some research and found that the zero-point luminosity was $L_\odot = 3.75\times 10^{28} $, while the sun's reported luminosity was $L_{Sun} = 3.828\times 10^{26}$, according to Wikipedia. ...
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How to convert magnitude to spectral luminosity? [duplicate]
In the Gaia catalogue I have the magnitude of several stars in the G band. I also have the distances to these stars (parallax is known). Additionally, I oftentimes have the effective temperature in ...
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Converting the log (Stellar Luminosity/Solar Luminosity) and the log of the plus and minus variation
There are some stars in the NASA Exoplanet Archive that I am interested in but I am confused by the physical meaning of the terms.
For example, there's a star BD+15 2940 with a log10 of Solar ...
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