Steps toward the Hertzsprung–Russell Diagram

David H. DeVorkin

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Steps toward the Hertzsprung–Russell Diagram

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Mar 1978 English Publisher:AIP PublishingJournal:Physics Today, volume 31, pages 32-39 (issn: 0031-9228, eissn: 1945-0699,

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Authors: David H. DeVorkin;

doi: 10.1063/1.2994966

Steps toward the Hertzsprung–Russell Diagram

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In the late nineteenth century, astronomers seeking to classify stars by their spectra using then-current concepts of stellar evolution found a temperature–luminosity plot that revolutionized the subject.

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