A Silent Revolution in Fundamental Astrophysics
arXiv:2209.06254 · doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ac9123
Abstract
Arbitrariness in the zero point of bolometric corrections is a nearly century-old paradigm leading to two more paradigms. "Bolometric corrections must always be negative," and "bolometric magnitude of a star ought to be brighter than its magnitude". Both were considered valid before IAU 2015 General Assembly Resolution B2, a revolutionary document that supersedes all three aforementioned paradigms. The purpose of this article is to initiate a new insight and a new understanding of the fundamental astrophysics and present new capabilities to obtain standard and more accurate stellar luminosities and gain more from accurate observations in the era after Gaia. The accuracy gained will aid in advancing stellar structure and evolution theories, and also Galactic and extragalactic research, observational cosmology and dark matter and dark energy searches.
8 pages, including 1 figure, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal
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