Mbol = 0

[Jan Hollan <jhollan@amper....muni.cz>]

> In Kyoto, Commissions 25 and 36 of the IAU have approved the following
> definition of Mbol =0
> It is the bolometric magnitude of a star radiating

> L=3.055x10^28 W

Dear Dr. Cayrel, 

encouraged by Petr Harmanec, who said me you are the author of that
marvelous standardization of Mbol=0 and of the nominal Sun, I dare to ask
you once more:

  Please, could you give me a hint, where that standardization 
approved in (August 1997 Assemby in) Kyoto has been (or will be) 
published? If it is just in the proceedings: 

(
XXIII  TRANSACTIONS OF THE IAU VOL. XXIIIB
       Proceedings of the Twenty-Third General Assembly
       Kyoto, Japan
       August 18 - 30, 1997
       Ed. J. Andersen
       Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, ISBN 0-7923-5588-1, 1999
)

a would appreciate a page number (there is no copy in Czechia).

Of course, an www-accessible reference would be much better. I am much in
favour to include it into http://www.iau.org/units.html at least.

Thanks to the value you have sent me in March, my colleague Zdenek
Mikulasek has been able to ground his new textbook on stelar astrophysics
on a solid fundament. However updating a Czech standard on photometric
terminology, I hesitate to give just a "private communication" reference. 

I have asked Christian Sterken already, where the resolution have been
published, but he is in USA now and cannot find the reference.  

Yours sincerely
Jan

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