Wilson-Bappu effect

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English

Etymology

Named after Olin Chaddock Wilson and Vainu Bappu.

Noun

Wilson-Bappu effect

  1. (astronomy, spectroscopy) The correlation between the measured width of the calcium II K emission line and the absolute visual magnitude of a star.

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