The Period-Luminosity Relation Is Useful in Determining

question 19

Multiple Choice

The period-luminosity relation is useful in determining

• A) the mass of a star for which the distance is known.
• B) the temperature of a star for which we know the luminosity.
• C) the radius of the bulge of our galaxy.
• D) the distance to globular clusters that contain Cepheid variables.
• E) the mass of the Milky Way galaxy.

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