luminosity
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The goal is to increase the "luminosity" -- that is, the total number of collisions produced over a given period -- by a factor of 10 compared to the LHC.
From Barron's ● Jun. 27, 2026
By 2024, it reached a high luminosity, more than two orders of magnitude higher than in 2021.
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
The Guardian's three star review said his "words glitter with feeling" and added that he "singularly shines, his luminosity putting the others slightly in the shade".
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 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
"This allows us to help explain the extreme luminosities of active galactic nuclei as well as the acceleration of particles to nearly the speed of light."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2025
The lower luminosities of red dwarf stars also means their habitable zones -- the range of orbital distances where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface -- lie closer to them.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
Suvi Gezari, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, says the observations extend the phenomenon of red novae to much lower luminosities and into the regime of planetary engulfments.
From Science Magazine ● May 3, 2023
The brutal fury of a system like WR 140 is undeniable, from the incredible luminosities of its stars to the cosmic tsunami of dusty winds they blast away.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 25, 2022
These luminosities can then be added together, and they should equal in luminosity the white light with which the comparison was made.
From Colour Measurement and Mixture by W. de W. Abney
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