AST 104 Stars and Galaxies
Important Terms for Chapter 9:
- Apparent magnitude
- Absolute magnitude
- Parsec
- Hipparcos
- Hipparchus
- Spectroscopic parallax
- Luminosity
- Bolometric magnitude
- Black body
- Spectral classes (types)
- Luminosity classes
- Stefan-Boltzmann Law
- Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
- Main sequence
- Red giants
- Supergiants
- White dwarfs
- Space velocity
- Radial velocity
- Proper motion
- Binary stars
- Visual binary
- Astrometric binary
- Spectroscopic binary
- Eclipsing binary
- Roche lobes
- Cepheid variables
- Cataclysmic variables
Prof. Donna Weistrop
University of Nevada, Las Vegas