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% Converts apparent visual magnitude to photons/s/micron.
Includes corrections for temperature and wavelength.
Inputs can be length 1 or n. If more than one input is of length
greater than 1 they must have the same length.
Type VMToPhotons for a demo.
Since version 11.
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Form:
p = VMToPhotons( vM, t, l )
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Inputs
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v (1,:) Visual magnitude
t (1,:) Temperature (deg-K)
l (1,:) Wavelength (nm)
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Outputs
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i (:) Photons/s/m^2/micron
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References: Witthoft, C. http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mwidholm/MathPad/
examples/starmag.txt
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Common: CommonData/SwooshWatermark Common: General/CellToMat Common: General/MatToCell Common: General/Watermark Common: Graphics/NewFig Common: Graphics/Plot2D Common: Graphics/PltStyle
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