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SPECTROPHOTOMETRICAL CLASSIFICATIONS OF STARS
U Jong-Ok
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Abstract
The spectral types of stars can be classified by using Balmer discontinuity() and wavelength() expressed in terms of effective temperatures appeared in Balmer discontinuity. In this research, in order to classify stars, we used the well established observational data of high dispersion spectrophotometry for the spectral types and luminosity classes of stars in the Breger(1976) catalogue. Balmer discontinuity by effective temperatures of stars was accurately measured, and the was replaced to luminosity classes of MK system, because of the close relationship between the As and luminosity classes. We measured the energy gradients() of stars which were expressed as a function of spectral types in the interval of , and then obtained a new physical parameter() from the and . The new parameter, can be used instead of HD classifications of stars and can be used widely for spectrophotometrical classifications of stars.