Questions tagged [magnitude]
Questions regarding the brightness of objects in a defined passband.
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What does HJD-2450000 mean?
I've been looking at the OGLE Collection of Variable stars for the purposes of making a machine learning model to classify variable stars by their plots. In each variable star, I see the following ...
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Has earthshine in fact increased since lights (say 1900); that is to say can we measure or has there been a measurable increase? What are the numbers?
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How would, or how is commonly, earthshine best stated (absolute magnitude, overall watts from the lunar surface, or?). (Further, since the moon is irregularly shiny is it measured ...
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Is there a specific constant name for the fifth root of 100?
I understand that each scale you go up on the absolute magnitude scale, the luminosity decreases by the fifth root of 100, or around 2.512. Is there a name for the constant 2.512, or not. Also, is the ...
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magnitude calculation if a blackbody's radius and temperature are provided
I know it is necessary to convolve its spectrum with the transmission curve of a filter.
Are there any online tools or codes available for calculating a BB's magnitude in any specific band (e.g., ...
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Query spectral type for absolute magnitude
I'm working on a project with stars where, given their spectral type (such as B0IV), I want to be able to know its approximate absolute magnitude.
I have searched online and found data sources like ...
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How to Determine Absolute Magnitude of a Galaxy using HST FITS Image
I'm attempting my first serious research project but due to... various circumstances, I am going to mostly be solving problems like this on my own with minimal outside help.
As for the actual problem, ...
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Visible angular size
Is it true that given two celestial objects of the same size and at the same distance, the fainter one will appear smaller? Is there a calculation that can be made about how smaller? Is it the same ...
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converting rms to limit flux
My question is simple: if I have an RMS value (the standard deviation for my background) at 1 sigma, and I also have the zero point of my observation, how can I transform that value into the limiting ...
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Standard definitions (ISO?) about subjects related to light emitted by stars
I'm a big fan of astrophysics and astronomy. However i'm quite confused by reading these last years plenty of books on the subject with various definitions (vocabulary) and notations for the same ...
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Measuring magnitudes in ds9
I'm currently working on a project which involves measuring several Cepheids to determine the distance to a galaxy. I have been using 12 images from the Hubble telescope taken over a period of about a ...
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Calculating the Flux density through different photometric filters
For a project I wrote the following python script for calculating the flux density.
My question is: If the user enters for example magV = 22 and the user selects the B filter instead of the V filter ...
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Photometry in SExtractor vs Python
I wanted to find stars in the dwarf Spheroidal (dSph) galaxy. I performed photometry using SExtractor and in Python using DaoStarFinder and other astropy packages. However, while extracting the ...
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Sky surface brightness vs magnitude limit visibility
I am wondering how we can calculate the magnitude limit of the celestial object, which could be visible at the given sky surface brightness conditions.
We already know that Venus and Jupiter are ...
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Magnitude cuts in different bands/surveys
I have data on around 142,000 galaxies. Some of these galaxies have apparent magnitude data in different bands. For example, many of my galaxies have SDSS PSF data in ugriz bands,GALEX FUV, GALEX NUV, ...
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What is the Chołoniewski method of estimating galaxy luminosity functions?
This paper describes a method to estimate the reddening of AGN using various methods, mostly to do with the intensity ratios of different absorption lines. It also mentions the Chołoniewski method, ...
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