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Many applications of multicolor wideband photometry depend upon the existence of a table of mean colors, i.e. a listing of the average values of the color indices B-V, V-R, etc. for each spectral type. Such a table relates the observed colors of unreddened stars to their temperature classes and enables one to draw a reference line representing the main sequence on any color-color diagram.
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Wing, R.F. (1983). Mean Colors and Effective Temperatures of K and M Dwarfs. In: Byrne, P.B., Rodonò, M. (eds) Activity in Red-Dwarf Stars. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 102. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7157-8_4
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