ABSTRACT IT is well known that spectroscopic parallaxes are an index of stellar surface gravity, which in turn is functionally related to the mass and luminosity of a star. If, therefore,

there exists a class of stars in which this functional relation differs from that found for the majority of stars, we should expect a lack of agreement of the mean trigonometric, dynamic and

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