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Mean Colors and Effective Temperatures of K and M Dwarfs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Robert F. Wing
Robert F. Wing*
Affiliation:
Astronomy Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 U.S.A.

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Many applications of multicolor wideband photometry depend upon the existence of a table of mean colors, i.e. a listing of the average values of the color indices B–V, V–R, etc. for each spectral type. Such a table relates the observed colors of unreddened stars to their temperature classes and enables one to draw a reference line representing the main sequence on any color-color diagram.

Type
Session I: General Characteristics of Active Dwarfs
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 71: Activity in Red-Dwarf Stars , 1983 , pp. 35 - 38
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1983

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