•Chapter 8: The Properties of Stars
–Distances to Stars
•Parallax and
Parsecs
•Spectroscopic
Parallax
–Intrinsic Brightness:
Luminosity
•Absolute Magnitude
–Luminosity, Radius, and
Temperature
–Hertzsprung-Russell
(H-R) Diagram
–Luminosity Classes
(e.g., Main Sequence, giant)
–Masses of Stars
•Binary Stars and
Kepler’s Law
•Mass-Luminosity
Relationship
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