luminosity

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Both rotation velocity and luminosity are effective parameters to estimate the amount of gas accreted.

From Science Daily • Dec. 14, 2025

“I have no medium that can give me color of such wonderful luminosity as the Autochrome plate,” wrote the photographer Edward Steichen in 1908.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

These fanciful instances benefit from Mari Fukuhara’s score, a drizzle of aural luminosity.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

She found a relationship between their variation period, or pulse, and their intrinsic brightness or luminosity.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2025

Conversely, if we knew the luminosity of stars in other galaxies, we could work out their distance by measuring their apparent brightness.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking