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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
It has been apparent for some time that there is a need for a single luminosity calibration to be used with modern MK types for early-type stars, at least from 0 through middle B. The widely used calibration of Blaauw (1963) has to be replaced because the refinement of the MK system - as reflected in the large collections of spectral types by Lesh (1968), Hiltner, Garrison, and Schild (1969) and Walborn (1971) - has led to a lower mean luminosity for most main sequence subgroups of early-type stars, as the higher luminosity stars tend to move out of class V. Thus the calibrations of Lesh (1968) and Walborn (1972, 1973) are systematically fainter than Blaauw’s