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Common Stars

Given a function of abundance of stars for values of absolute magnitude, the student is asked to determine which stars would appear at the peak between 12 and 17 Mv (red giants, blue supergiants, red dwarfs, white/yellow main sequence stars).

keywords: abundance, star, absolute magnitude, red giant, blue supergiant, red dwarf, main sequence star

swf file: ca_stellarprops2_lumfunccommonstars.swf