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effective temperature comparison table

Subject is a kind of has symbol has definition

temperature quantity A measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles of a system.

effective temperature temperature T_eff The temperature that a blackbody would have which emitted the same amount of energy per unit area as the star does: it is a temperature characteristic of the surface region. T_eff of Sun, 5800 K.

Subject	is a kind of	has symbol	has definition
temperature	quantity		A measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles of a system.
effective temperature	temperature	T_eff	The temperature that a blackbody would have which emitted the same amount of energy per unit area as the star does: it is a temperature characteristic of the surface region. T_eff of Sun, 5800 K.

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