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The effective temperature (Teff, Teff, or black body temperature, TBB) of a body such as a star is the temperature of a black body that would produce the same total radiation as the star produces. It is generally in the neighborhood of other measures of temperature. Other measures include color temperature, the temperature of a black body that would produce portions of the star's spectrum, i.e., those parts which appear to reflect the underlying thermal emission.