Sunday, 3 February 2013

star - How to calculate B-V colour index value percentage difference

$B-V$ corresponds to the base 10 logarithm of a flux ratio.



$$B-V = -2.5 log left(frac{f_B}{f_V}right)$$



So trying to guess what you are trying to calculate, it is the percentage change in the blue to visible flux ratio?



In which case the percentage change is
$$ p = frac{ 10^{-(B-V)_2/2.5} - 10^{-(B-V)_1/2.5}}{10^{-(B-V)_1/2.5}}times 100$$



A percentage change can of course be negative.

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