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Criteria and Applications of the MK Classification System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

R. F. Garrison
R. F. Garrison*
Affiliation:
David Dunlap Observatory, University of Toronto

Abstract

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A review is given of the present state of MK classification, with a view to future developments in techniques and instrumentation. The principle of the complementarity of quantitative and visual inspection techniques is stressed.

Included in the discussion are examples of problems which are currently outstanding. Among these are variable stars, marginal peculiarities, fundamental standards (with specific reference to the Sun), and representation of the third and higher dimensions.

Type
II Criteria and Applications of MK Classification
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 47: Spectral Classification of the Future , 1979 , pp. 23 - 30
Copyright
Copyright © Vatican Observatory 1979

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