Light curve

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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What Wikipedia says

In astronomy, a light curve is a graph of the light intensity of a celestial object or region as a function of time, typically with the magnitude of light received on the y-axis and with time on the x-axis. The light is usually in a particular frequency interval or band.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Light curve”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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