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The Luminosity Calibration of the uvby — β Photometry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2016
Abstract
The ESA HIPPARCOS satellite has provided astrometry of unprecedented accuracy, allowing us to reassess, improve and refine the pre-Hipparcos luminosity calibrations. We review the “classical” absolute magnitude calibrations with the Strömgren-Crawford intermediate-band photometric system. A small zero point correction of about 2-4% seems necessary, as well as to refine the dependences on metallicity and projected rotational velocity. The need of a rigorous statistical treatment of the extremely precise Hipparcos data to derive definitive dependences of the luminosity on physical parameters is emphasized.
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