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    Galaxy effective radius or half-light radius ( R e {\displaystyle R_{e}} ) is the radius at which half of the total light of a galaxy is emitted. This...
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  • respectively. Antenna equivalent radius Cloud drop effective radius Cubic mean Earth ellipsoid Earth radius Galaxy effective radius Geoid Geometric mean Semidiameter...
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    half-light radius (also known as effective radius; Re) is a measure that is based on the galaxy's overall brightness flux. This is the radius upon which...
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    stars currently known, ordered by radius and separated into categories by galaxy. The unit of measurement used is the radius of the Sun (approximately 695...
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    all baryonic matter in the galaxy may be 1010 solar masses. The contribution of the dark matter component out to a radius of 55×10^3 ly (17 kpc) is equivalent...
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    accompanied by an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy, discovered in 2009, with an absolute magnitude of −12.3, an effective radius of just 47.9 ly (3.03 million astronomical...
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    ESO 383-76 (category Elliptical galaxies)
    commonly used in the astronomical literature is the galaxy effective radius where 50% of the total galaxy's light was emitted; variations of 60%, 70%, and...
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    is the diatomic hydrogen (H2), with a bond length of 0.74 Å. Effective molecular radius is the size a molecule displays in solution. The table of permselectivity...
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    Messier 87 (redirect from Virgo A Galaxy)
    extends to a radius of about 150 kiloparsecs (490,000 light-years), where it is truncated—possibly by an encounter with another galaxy. Its interstellar...
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  • elliptical galaxies. Some correlations have been empirically shown. The fundamental plane is usually expressed as a relationship between the effective radius, average...
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