Sentence examples for luminosity function from inspiring English sources
noun
A relative measure of the relationship between stellar magnitude and the distribution of stars between magnitudes
The luminosity function depends on population type.
Galactic bulge luminosity function used for simulations.
The galaxy luminosity function (LF) is important for several reasons.
Indeed, the protostellar luminosity function is essentially identical to the luminosity function derived for optically visible T Tauri stars in the cloud.
When corrected for observational selection effects, the resulting luminosity function appears to be deficient in intermediate-luminosity stars compared with the luminosity function for field stars.
The detailed determination of the luminosity function of the solar neighbourhood is an extremely complicated process.
The luminosity function for pure Population II differs substantially from that for pure Population I.
In general there are four different methods for determining the local luminosity function.
In principle, the density distribution can be calculated by integrating the stellar luminosity function.
We will also compute the luminosity function of galaxies that are members of the cluster.
Hopkins, P. F., Richards, G. T. & Hernquist, L. An observational determination of the bolometric quasar luminosity function.
