Re: [Phys-L] stellar properties

["Anthony Lapinski" <Anthony_Lapinski@pds.org>]

Thanks. Yes, star size is hard to find. I guess I could determine using
S-B law with luminosity and brightness. I also want data for the brightest
stars, rather than the closest ones, as students are familiar with them.

Phys-L@Phys-L.org writes:
> On 01/25/2014 04:00 PM, Anthony Lapinski wrote:
> > I am looking for a detailed table with these properties:
> >
> > parallax (p)
> > distance (d)
> > brightness (B)
> > luminosity (L)
> > temperature (T)
> > size (R)
>
> Astronomers don't usually catalog size.  With the rarest of exceptions,
> there's 
> not a good way to measure it.  You can infer it based on luminosity and
> spectral
> class, plus a good model......
>
> Otherwise, there's this:
>
> http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/W3Browse/star-catalog/cns3.html
> Gliese Catalog of Nearby Stars, 3rd Edition
>  The CNS3 catalog contains all known stars as of 1991 that are within 25
> parsecs of the Sun
>  The catalog contains every then-known star with a trigonometric
> parallax greater than or equal to 0.0390 arcsec
>
>
> Probably not as directly useful:
>
> http://tdc-www.harvard.edu/catalogs/bsc5.html
> Yale Bright Star Catalog
>  These files contain version 5 of the Yale Bright Star Catalog of 9,110
> stars, 
>  including B1950 positions, proper motions, magnitudes, and, usually,
> spectral types
>
>
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