Measurement of Astronomical Objects
Mass
Luminosity
Composition
Age
Environment
Position and Motion
Size and Morphology
Temperature
Position(in the sky)
Motion
Distance
We measure the position of stars by astrometry, which is the action of measuring one stars' position by measuring its distance and direction relative to a reference star
Parallax
Cepheids
Type Ia supernovae
Proper Motion
Radial Velocity
Gravity and Rotation
Virial Theorem
Size=Angular Size*Distance
By obtaining luminosity, we can roughly know a stars' size, without having to know its angular size.
We can also obtain orbital radius by Kepler's Third Law.
L=4pi r*r flux
Effective Temperature
Color Temperature
Effective temperature is the temperature calculated by Stefan-Boltzmann's Law corresponding to the same amount of a stars' bolometric flux
Color temperature is obtained by curve fitting of a stars' flux-versus-frequency graph
It's hard to obtain a stars' age. But if the star is in a cluster, then we're able to estimate its age by plotting every star in the cluster on the HR Diagram.
Atomic and Molecular
Structure
Asteroseismology
Components for a galaxy
B field
Dark Matter
Central Blackhole
Clusters
Galaxy Clusters