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centroid wavelength

[4.7.2]

The wavelength calculated as the weighted mean of a spectral function according to:

centroid wavelength

where:

λ is the wavelength, S(λ) is the spectral function, and λ1 and λ2 are the limits for the wavelength range of S(λ).

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