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adj. - Of or relating to a very sensitive resistance thermometer used in the detection and measurement of feeble thermal radiation and especially adapted to the study of infrared spectra

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  • At the compromise distance of 570 light years, the star has a total bolometric luminosity some 85,000 times that of the
  • Its visible portion covers a range of about one octave; bolometric indications already in 1884 comprised between three and four.
  • Because of their intrinsically red colors and dusty circumstellar envelopes, tracking the numbers and bolometric fluxes of AGB stars requires the NIR observations we...
  • As to the eye, we have reason to believe, from the bolometric observations of LANGLEY (1888), that the mean wave-length of the visual curve of intensity nearly coincides...
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