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The Sun is a weakly variable star, and its actual luminosity therefore fluctuates. [3] The major fluctuation is the eleven-year solar cycle (sunspot cycle) that causes a quasi-periodic variation of about ±0.1%. Other variations over the last 200–300 years are thought to be much smaller than this. [4]
For example, consider a 10 W transmitter at a distance of 1 million metres, radiating over a bandwidth of 1 MHz. By the time that power has reached the observer, the power is spread over the surface of a sphere with area 4πr 2 or about 1.26×10 13 m 2, so its flux density is 10 / 10 6 / (1.26×10 13) W m −2 Hz −1 = 8×10 7 Jy.
Notes Name Symbol [nb 4] Name Symbol Radiant energy: Q e [nb 5] joule: J: M⋅L 2 ⋅T −2: Energy of electromagnetic radiation. Radiant energy density: w e: joule per cubic metre J/m 3: M⋅L −1 ⋅T −2: Radiant energy per unit volume. Radiant flux: Φ e [nb 5] watt: W = J/s M⋅L 2 ⋅T −3: Radiant energy emitted, reflected ...
Brightness temperature or radiance temperature is a measure of the intensity of electromagnetic energy coming from a source. [1] In particular, it is the temperature at which a black body would have to be in order to duplicate the observed intensity of a grey body object at a frequency ν {\displaystyle \nu } . [ 2 ]
Over billions of years, the Sun is gradually expanding, and emitting more energy from the resultant larger surface area. The unsolved question of how to account for the clear geological evidence of liquid water on the Earth billions of years ago, at a time when the sun's luminosity was only 70% of its current value, is known as the faint young ...
The relationship is represented by the equation: = where L ⊙ and M ⊙ are the luminosity and mass of the Sun and 1 < a < 6. [2] The value a = 3.5 is commonly used for main-sequence stars. [ 3 ] This equation and the usual value of a = 3.5 only applies to main-sequence stars with masses 2 M ⊙ < M < 55 M ⊙ and does not apply to red giants ...
maximum brightness [42] when illuminated as a crescent −4.14: planet Venus: seen from Earth mean brightness [42] −4: Faintest objects observable during the day with naked eye when Sun is high. An astronomical object casts human-visible shadows when its apparent magnitude is equal to or lower than −4 [43] −3.99: star Epsilon Canis Majoris
More recent modeling studies have shown that the Sun is currently 1.4 times as bright today than it was 4.6 billion years ago (Ga), and that the brightening has accelerated considerably. [8] At the surface of the Sun, more fusion power means a higher solar luminosity (via slight increases in temperature and radius), which is termed radiative ...