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Mass-luminosity Relation

The Mass-Luminosity Relation is an empirical astrophysical law that expresses the quantitative correlation between the mass and luminosity of main-sequence stars, specifying that luminosity scales approximately as a power of the stellar mass.

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Mass-luminosity Relationship

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The Luminosity Function and Stellar Evolution.

E. E. Salpeter · The Astrophysical Journal · 1955 · 8.7K citations

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A Relationship between Nuclear Black Hole Mass and Galaxy Velocity Dispersion

The Astrophysical Journal · 2000 · 3.7K citations · Full text

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A Relationship Between Nuclear Black Hole Mass And Galaxy Velocity Dispersion

2000 · 2.2K citations

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Reverberation Measurements for 17 Quasars and the Size‐Mass‐Luminosity Relations in Active Galactic Nuclei

The Astrophysical Journal · 2000 · 2K citations · Full text

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The distribution of low-mass stars in the Galactic disc

Pavel Kroupa, Christopher A. Tout, G. Gilmore · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 1993 · 1.7K citations

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  1. MM
    M. Marconi

    Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte, Italy

    10 publications · 405 citations

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  2. TT
    Tommaso Treu

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    9 publications · 943 citations

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  3. HB
    H. Böhringer

    Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany

    8 publications · 948 citations

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  4. IM
    I. Musella

    Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte, Italy

    8 publications · 272 citations

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  5. NM
    N. Morrell

    Las Campanas Observatory, Chile

    7 publications · 432 citations

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  1. Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

    Cambridge, United States

    34 h-index

    85 publications

    7.3K citations

  2. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    30 h-index

    59 publications

    6.1K citations

  3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    28 h-index

    137 publications

    7.5K citations

  4. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    28 h-index

    51 publications

    10.8K citations

  5. Space Telescope Science Institute

    Baltimore, United States

    26 h-index

    37 publications

    4.8K citations

  6. Carnegie Observatories

    Pasadena, United States

    24 h-index

    61 publications

    14.3K citations

  7. Max Planck Institute for Astronomy

    Heidelberg, Germany

    23 h-index

    51 publications

    7.7K citations

  8. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

    22 h-index

    48 publications

    6.1K citations

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 294 publications · 37.2K citations

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  2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    163 publications · 15.5K citations

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  3. The Astronomical Journal

    AJ · 71 publications · 6.2K citations

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  4. Astronomy and Astrophysics

    67 publications · 5.2K citations

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  5. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

    Repository · 16 publications · 1.2K citations

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