Read a star's bolometric correction off its colour, and carry Gaia's G to V first
A star's luminosity was its absolute magnitude plus a bolometric correction read off its spectral type, with its magnitude taken as V whatever band it was in. Gaia classifies none of its stars, so all of its 379 000 got the Sun's correction, and their G was read as V: TRAPPIST-1 came out at a seventh of its luminosity. The dwarf sequence spectral.ts already reads types off (Pecaut & Mamajek 2013, table 5, online version 2022.04.16) now carries its effective temperature, bolometric correction to V and Gaia G-V columns, and dwarfSequenceAtColor interpolates them at a colour, in the colour's own system. luminositySolar uses it wherever the star's colour is inside the table: the G magnitude is carried to V, then corrected. Only without such a colour does it fall back to the spectral type, as before. Against the archive's own st_lum for the 1 449 hosts that are catalogue stars, the median error goes from 0.038 to 0.022 dex and the 90th percentile from 0.292 to 0.115 dex; within a factor of 1.5, 84.5 % -> 93.8 %. For the 572 hosts Gaia describes: 90th percentile 0.332 -> 0.073 dex, 81.8 % -> 97.0 % within a factor of 1.5. Barnard's Star with no type now reads 0.0029 L_sun against 0.0035 published, and TRAPPIST-1 7.3e-4 against 5.5e-4 (Agol et al. 2021). Across the catalogue, 311 255 of 455 608 stars move by more than 10 % (median ratio 0.90: a G-type star's G is 0.16 brighter than its V), and so do the hosts of 3 158 planets, whose equilibrium temperatures follow as the fourth root. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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/**
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* Bolometric luminosity of a star in solar units, from what the catalogue measured: apparent
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* magnitude, parallax distance, and a bolometric correction read off the spectral type.
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* magnitude in its band, parallax distance, and a bolometric correction read off the colour, or
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* off the spectral type where there is no colour.
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*/
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export function luminosityOf(star: StarRecord | undefined): number | null {
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if (!star) {
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magnitude: star.magnitude,
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distancePc: Math.hypot(star.x, star.y, star.z),
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spectralType: star.spectralType,
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magnitudeBand: star.magnitudeBand,
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colorIndex: star.colorIndex,
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colorSystem: star.colorSystem,
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});
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}
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