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Vinony's link graph records 5,031 inbound references to solar luminosity, and connects out to solar cycle, Sun and star.
It sits within the topics Stellar astronomy, Sun and Units of measurement in astronomy.
Vinony links it to 46 Wikipedia language editions.
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- measured physical quantity
- luminosity
- conversion to SI unit
- 382800000000000000000000000
- unit symbol
- L☉
- Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent
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Encyclopedic overview
Evolution of the solar luminosity, radius and effective temperature compared to the present-day Sun. After Ribas (2010) The solar luminosity (L☉) is a unit of radiant flux (power emitted in the form of photons) conventionally used by astronomers to measure the luminosity of stars, galaxies and other celestial objects in terms of the output of the Sun.
One nominal solar luminosity is defined by the International Astronomical Union to be 3.828×10 W. This corresponds almost exactly to a bolometric absolute magnitude of +4.74.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “solar luminosity” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.