• de Vaucouleurs's law, also known as the de Vaucouleurs profile or de Vaucouleurs model, describes how the surface brightness I {\displaystyle I} of an...
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  • laymen. De Vaucouleurs's law Edwin Hubble Galaxy color–magnitude diagram William Wilson Morgan Julien Peridier "Gerard Henri de Vaucouleurs (1918 - 1995)"...
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    Sérsic profile (redirect from Sersic law)
    from its center. It is a generalization of de Vaucouleurs' law. José Luis Sérsic first published his law in 1963. The Sérsic profile has the form ln...
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    brightness flux, and 80% for galaxies that follow a profile that follows de Vaucouleurs's law. Petrosian magnitudes have the advantage of being redshift and distance...
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  • the formulation of "De Vaucouleurs's law" for the surface brightness of an elliptical galaxy in 1948. In Australia, de Vaucouleurs worked first on Greenwich-style...
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  • Dermott's law: The sidereal period of major satellites tends to follow a geometric series. Named after Stanley Dermott. De Vaucouleurs' law, in astronomy...
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    are often described by a Sersic surface brightness law, a double Sersic profile or a de Vaucouleurs law. The different parametrizations of the light profile...
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    important length scale in R 4 {\displaystyle {\sqrt[{4}]{R}}} term in de Vaucouleurs law, which characterizes a specific rate at which surface brightness decreases...
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    was the topic of a long and rather bitter controversy between Gérard de Vaucouleurs, who claimed the value was around 100, and Allan Sandage, who claimed...
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    Joan of Arc arrived in Chinon from Vaucouleurs to speak with the King. Gilles de Rais was then present at the Château de Chinon, as were the other captains...
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  • asymptotically similar to the De Vaucouleurs' law which is a special case of the Sersic profile for elliptical galaxies. The law is named for the astronomers...
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    actress Inam Karimov, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Azerbaijan Gérard de Vaucouleurs, observational astronomer known for his work on galaxies Lucien Abenhaim...
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    then returned to Lorraine and lived in the Castle of Vaucouleurs. Here, her cook was Fabien Bécu (de Cantigny), who met his second wife, Anne Husson, a...
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    uncle to take her to the nearby town of Vaucouleurs, where she petitioned the garrison commander, Robert de Baudricourt, for an armed escort to the Armagnac...
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    René de Chalon by Ligier Richier in Bar-le-Duc Château de Hattonchâtel Chapel of Vaucouleurs Historical reenactment near the Verdun battlefield Arrondissements...
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    "Death as a skeleton" or the "Squelette de Bar" and was commissioned as a memorial to Renė de Chalon, the brother-in-law of Duke Antoine of Lorraine. There...
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    and began working as a research associate in astronomy under Gérard de Vaucouleurs at the University of Texas at Austin. While at McDonald Observatory...
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    doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06531.x. S2CID 119383732. De Vaucouleurs, Gerard; De Vaucouleurs, Antoinette; Corwin, Herold G.; Buta, Ronald J.; Paturel...
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    Vaucouleurs in Champagne, second son of Simon of Joinville and Beatrix d'Auxonne (daughter of Stephen III of Auxonne), and younger brother of Jean de...
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  • who thought the Hubble constant was about 50, and the French Gérard de Vaucouleurs; Canadian Sidney van den Bergh looked at the Hubble constant as well;...
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    classified as a SABbc class galaxy using the Hubble sequence and the De Vaucouleurs system as an extension, NGC 1 is a spiral galaxy with the presence of...
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    Draper Medal of the National Academy of Sciences 1998 – Antoinette de Vaucouleurs Memorial Lectureship and Medal by the University of Texas at Austin...
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    Buta, Ronald James; Corwin, Harold G.; Odewahn, Stephen C. (2007). The de Vaucouleurs atlas of galaxies. Cambridge University Press. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-521-82048-6...
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  • Joseph Ashbrook (died 1980), American astronomer. April 25 – Gérard de Vaucouleurs (died 1995), French astronomer. May 11 – Richard Feynman (died 1988)...
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    4486 (M87) and NGC 5128 as extragalactic radio sources. 1953 — Gérard de Vaucouleurs discovers that the galaxies within approximately 200 million light-years...
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    doi:10.1038/nature13674. PMID 25186900. S2CID 205240232. De Vaucouleurs, Gerard; De Vaucouleurs, Antoinette; Corwin, Herold G.; Buta, Ronald J.; Paturel...
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    January 1968 in accordance with a law passed on 10 January 1964 and a décret d'application (a decree specifying how a law should be enforced) from 26 February...
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  • Jaffe profile (redirect from Jaffe's law)
    Its usefulness derives from the fact that it accurately reproduces a de Vaucouleurs profile when projected onto the sky. The density in the Jaffe model...
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    Drumman aka The Grey Spider Joan of Arc (1948) as Sir Robert de Baudricourt - governor of Vaucouleurs Appointment with Venus (1951) as Capt. Weiss Outcast of...
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    68 BCG has a light profile. This surface brightness law, μ(r) ə r1/4, described by de Vaucouleurs, has a large range in its radius and fitted to the inner...
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