Chronology Current Month Current Thread Current Date
[Year List] [Month List (current year)] [Date Index] [Thread Index] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Prev] [Date Next]

Re: [Phys-L] stellar properties



You could download Stellarium and then get students to gather the data from that one-by-one. It provides magnitude, absolute magnitude, spectral type, distance, parallax. From spectral type or or the B-V you can get approximate temp. From distance, get parallax and vice versa. Then magnitude and distance, get absolute magnitude, etc.

Look at Univ. of Nebraska Lincoln, NAAP exercises. Their HR diagram simulator is pretty cool.

I'm at home right now. At school I have a star database that may have other parameters. Don't remember the name, and it may be one that JDenker referred you to. I'll look in the morning.

-----Original Message-----
From: Phys-l [mailto:phys-l-bounces@phys-l.org] On Behalf Of Anthony Lapinski
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 5:01 PM
To: phys-l@phys-l.org
Subject: [Phys-L] stellar properties

I am looking for a detailed table with these properties:

parallax (p)
distance (d)
brightness (B)
luminosity (L)
temperature (T)
size (R)

The d, B, and L are for the Inverse-Square law, and the L, T, and R are
for the Stefan-Boltzmann law.

I am teaching this in the coming weeks and wanted to use actual stars for
some math problems. I have searched online, but most tables show parallax
and distance, spectral type and temperature, or luminosity and brightness.
It's difficult to find a comprehensive one with the properties I need. Can
anyone help?

_______________________________________________
Forum for Physics Educators
Phys-l@phys-l.org
http://www.phys-l.org/mailman/listinfo/phys-l