Minimum mass
In astronomy, minimum mass is the lower-bound calculated mass of objects like planets, stars, nebulae,[1] and black holes.
Minimum mass is used a lot for extrasolar planets discovered by the radial velocity method. It is found using the binary mass function.
Minimum Mass Media
A view of inclination that would appear flat upon the green plane from Earth.
Unit circle: the radius has length 1. The variable t measures the angle referred to as θ in the text.
Animation showing how the sine function (in red) y = \sin(\theta) is graphed from the y-coordinate (red dot) of a point on the unit circle (in green) at an angle of θ.
References
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 630: attempt to index field 'known_free_doi_registrants_t' (a nil value).