Wilson-Bappu effect
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named after Olin Chaddock Wilson and Vainu Bappu.
Noun[edit]
- (astronomy, spectroscopy) The correlation between the measured width of the calcium II K emission line and the absolute visual magnitude of a star.
Further reading[edit]
- Wilson-Bappu effect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia