A Silent Revolution in Fundamental Astrophysics

Abstract Arbitrariness in the zeropoint of bolometric corrections is a paradigm that nearly century old and leads to two more paradigms. “Bolometric must always be negative,” “the magnitude star ought brighter than its V magnitude”. Both were considered valid before IAU 2015 General Assembly Resolution B2, revolutionary document supersedes all three aforementioned The purpose this article initiate new insight into understanding fundamental astrophysics present capabilities obtain standard accurate stellar luminosities gain from observations era after Gaia. accuracy gained will aid advancing structure evolution theories also Galactic extragalactic research, observational cosmology, searches for dark matter energy.