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The Strömgren Four-Color System and the Log Teff, Log G Diagram

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Lawrence J. Relyea  and
A.G. Davis Philip
Lawrence J. Relyea
Affiliation:
Dudley Observatory
A.G. Davis Philip
Affiliation:
Dudley Observatory and Union College

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Strömgren (1966) set up the four-color system of photometry as a means of studying early-type stars in the spectral range 0 through F. In this spectral range one of the important measures that can be made of a stellar spectrum is the magnitude of the Balmer jump. For stars of a given (b-y) color the discontinuity is very large for stars of high luminosity and small for low luminosity stars. For very hot stars (0 and B stars) this luminosity effect becomes too small to be used as a luminosity indicator, but because of this insensitivity to luminosity changes the magnitude of the Balmer discontinuity becomes a temperature indicator (see Philip and Newell 1974 and Davis and Shobbrook 1977). Photoelectric measures of the strength of the Hß line can be used in a similar, but reverse, manner. For the B and O stars the index is a measure of luminosity; for late A and F stars the index is a good temperature index. In the spectral range A0-A3 both the Balmer jump and the Beta index are functions of temperature and luminosity. For a bibliography of the many uses of Strömgren four-color and Hß photometry see the paper prepared by Philip and Perry (1977).

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Poster Session
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 80: The HR Diagram , 1978 , pp. 443 - 446
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1978 

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