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light curve

graph of light intensity of a celestial object or region, as a function of time
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light curve

Summary

light curve ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (64 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • light curve's image is recorded as 201 Penelope light curve.png[2].
  • light curve's subclass of is recorded as curve[3].
  • light curve's subclass of is recorded as scalar function of scalar variable[4].
  • light curve's Commons category is recorded as Light curves (astronomy)[5].
  • light curve's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0hlpp[6].
  • light curve's facet of is recorded as astronomical object[7].
  • light curve's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/light-curve[8].
  • light curve's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as light-curves[9].
  • light curve's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as lyskurve[10].
  • light curve's Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID is recorded as 918[11].
  • light curve's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 130726490[12].
  • light curve's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C130726490[13].

Why It Matters

light curve ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (64 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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