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The distance to nearby stars can be measured through geometrical methods. When the distance is known, additional observations of the spectra of stars and light curves of binary systems allow us to determine the temperatures, sizes, and luminosities of many nearby stars. In this way we can find correlations between different stellar properties and begin to sort stars into different categories and classifications.
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Benacquista, M. (2013). Measuring Other Stellar Properties. In: An Introduction to the Evolution of Single and Binary Stars. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9991-7_3
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