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It is the purpose of this article to examine the role of the photoelectric process in measurements of astronomical radiation, and to describe the procedures that have been successfully used in making these measurements. The rise of astrophysics has, because of its great dependence on the analysis of the radiation from astronomical bodies, turned a great part of observational astronomy into an evaluation of intensities. Determinations of position or angle remain important in astrometry and radial velocity work, but in measurement of magnitudes, of gross spectral distribution as defined by colors or spectrophotometry, or of finer spectrum detail in line profiles or equivalent widths, or of the polarization of starlight, the attainable results have depended on the precision of the photometry.
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Whitford, A.E. (1962). Photoelectric Techniques. In: Flügge, S. (eds) Astrophysik V: Verschiedenes / Astrophysics V: Miscellaneous. Handbuch der Physik / Encyclopedia of Physics, vol 11 / 54. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45984-9_5
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