luminosity
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This result suggests a relationship between X-ray luminosity and rotation velocity, and that the accretion system changed during the faint phase.
From Science Daily • Dec. 14, 2025
“I have no medium that can give me color of such wonderful luminosity as the Autochrome plate,” wrote the photographer Edward Steichen in 1908.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
The Guardian's three star review said his "words glitter with feeling" and added that he "singularly shines, his luminosity putting the others slightly in the shade".
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025
She found a relationship between their variation period, or pulse, and their intrinsic brightness or luminosity.
From Salon • Feb. 14, 2025
The old thick walls sucked in coat after coat of whitewash made with lime in salt water, which, as it dried, seemed to have a luminosity of its own.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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