luminosityFromAbsoluteMagnitude

function luminosityFromAbsoluteMagnitude
universe/src/catalog/photometry.ts:275
luminosityFromAbsoluteMagnitude(absoluteMagnitudeV: number, temperature: number, evolved: boolean) → number

Bolometric luminosity in solar units, from a V-band absolute magnitude.

The temperature is needed because the bolometric correction depends on it — which is why this cannot be the one-liner HYG's lum column implies.

absoluteMagnitudeVnumber
Undocumented
temperaturenumber
Undocumented
evolvedboolean
Undocumented
Returnsnumber