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Stellar Blackbody Radiation Curves model simulates the blackbody radiation curve of stars and how this leads to the observed color and luminosity of the star. If a star can be treated as a blackbody, the blackbody radiation curve of the star, the power density per area (or intensity) per wavelength (energy/time/volume) vs wavelength, is dependent on the star's temperature (spectral class).
In the simulation, the star is shown along with its luminosity and spectral class. In separate graph, the blackbody radiation curve, the visible part of the spectrum, and the integrated stellar surface intensity (integrating the blackbody curve over all wavelengths) are shown. In another window the HR diagram can be shown indicating the current star's parameters. The radius of the star (in Rsun) and the temperature of the star in Kelvin (5780 K is Tsun) can be changed.
Please note that this resource requires
at least version 1.5 of Java (JRE).
Stellar Blackbody Radiation Curves Source Code
The source code zip archive contains an XML representation of the Stellar Blackbody Radiation Curves Model. Unzip this archive in your EJS workspace to compile and run this model using EJS. download 89kb .zip
Published: November 11, 2010
previous versions
M. Belloni, Computer Program STELLAR BLACKBODY RADIATION CURVES, Version 1.0 (2010), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10502&DocID=1957).
M. Belloni, Computer Program STELLAR BLACKBODY RADIATION CURVES, Version 1.0 (2010), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=10502&DocID=1957>.
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