Suppose You Take a Spectrum of a Orange Star And

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Essay

Suppose you take a spectrum of a orange star and, based on the shape of its blackbody curve as well as its absorption lines, that it is of spectral type K3.However, you do not know its distance.How, then, can you determine whether it is a main-sequence star or a giant star?

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