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Magnitudes, distance moduli, bolometric corrections, and so much more

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arxiv 2206.00989 v2 pith:JMPVHZWB submitted 2022-06-02 astro-ph.IM physics.pop-ph

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This pedagogical document about stellar photometry - aimed at those for whom astronomical arcana seem arcane - endeavours to explain the concepts of magnitudes, color indices, absolute magnitudes, distance moduli, extinctions, attenuations, color excesses, K corrections, and bolometric corrections. I include some discussion of observational technique, and some discussion of epistemology, but the primary focus here is on the theoretical or interpretive connections between the observational astronomical quantities and the physical properties of the observational targets.

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