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The effective temperature is defined by the Stefan–Boltzmann law applied to a star's total luminosity:
Here is the adopted photospheric radius and is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant. This defines the temperature of a black body radiating the same total flux per unit surface area; it does not assert that every wavelength of the stellar spectrum follows a perfect Planck spectrum.

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