Sentence examples for greater luminosity from inspiring English sources

But he managed somehow to create an impression of greater luminosity and translucence the denser the drawing, an extraordinary paradox.

It made you pine for a dancer of greater luminosity and voluptuousness, and during the performance a flurry of names came to mind (notably Mark Morris, who, if anyone, could wrangle an orchestra).

Given the dependence of luminosity on the square of the radius and the fourth power of the temperature (R2T4 of the luminosity expression above), greater luminosity implies larger radius, and such stars are termed giant stars or supergiant stars.

The most massive of these clusters, identified as Mayall II, nicknamed Globular One, has a greater luminosity than any other known globular cluster in the Local Group of galaxies.

Moreover, the Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush), common in all lakes surveyed, is a main predator of Lake Whitefish (Scott and Crossman 1973; Chouinard et al. 1996), and is more likely to chase the dwarf Whitefish for longer distances in the greater luminosity of the limnetic environment (Vogel and Beauchamp 1999).

It was bright enough to be seen during the day, and its great luminosity lasted for weeks.

The greatest luminosity, apparent magnitude −4.9, occurs during crescent phase when it is near Earth.

After further study, she confirmed in 1912 that the Cepheid variables with greater intrinsic luminosity did have longer periods, and that the relationship was quite close and predictable.

The more massive the star, the greater its luminosity, and the more rapidly it expends the hydrogen fuel in its core.

Supergiant star, any star of very great intrinsic luminosity and relatively enormous size, typically several magnitudes brighter than a giant star and several times greater in diameter.

Although Pseudotropheus species express a UV-sensitive cone opsin, examinations of photographs of these and related species taken under UV light did not reveal any UV-specific markings, simply a greater degree of luminosity of the bright blue parts of their colour, which does not vary noticeably between the populations.