Luminosity function
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| definition | Number distribution of stars or galaxies (galaxy) with respect to their absolute magnitudes. The luminosity function shows the number of stars of a given intrinsic luminosity (or the number of galaxies per integrated magnitude band) in a given volume of space. | ||||||
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| contributor | AAS_Frey.Katie original | ||||||