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The stellar temperature scale for stars of spectral types from O8 to F6 and the standard deviation of the MK spectral classification

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Empirical effective temperatures of 211 early-type stars found in a previous investigation (Kontizas and Theodossiou, 1980; Theodossiou, 1985) are combined with the effective temperatures of other 313 early-type stars found from literature. From these effective temperatures of a total number of 524 early-type stars of spectral types from O8 to F6 we derive a new stellar temperature scale and the standard deviation of the MK spectral classification.

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Theodossiou, E., Danezis, E. The stellar temperature scale for stars of spectral types from O8 to F6 and the standard deviation of the MK spectral classification. Astrophys Space Sci 183, 91–115 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00643019

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