pseudomagnitude
English
Etymology
pseudo- + magnitude
Noun
pseudomagnitude (plural pseudomagnitudes)
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{{rfdef}}.- 2016, Alain Chelli, Gilles Duvert, Laurent Bourgès, Guillaume Mella, Sylvain Lafrasse, Daniel Bonneau, Olivier Chesneau, “Pseudomagnitudes and Differential Surface Brightness: Application to the apparent diameter of stars”, in Astronomy & Astrophysics, volume 2016:
- It makes use of two new reddening-free concepts: a distance indicator called pseudomagnitude, and a quasi-experimental observable that is independent of distance and specific to each star, called the differential surface brightness (DSB).
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