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10−23 erg⋅s−1⋅cm−2⋅Hz−1. The jansky (symbol Jy, plural janskys) is a non- SI unit of spectral flux density, [1] or spectral irradiance, used especially in radio astronomy. It is equivalent to 10 −26 watts per square metre per hertz. The spectral flux density or monochromatic flux, S, of a source is the integral of the spectral ...
Spectral index. In astronomy, the spectral index of a source is a measure of the dependence of radiative flux density (that is, radiative flux per unit of frequency) on frequency. Given frequency in Hz and radiative flux density in Jy, the spectral index is given implicitly by Note that if flux does not follow a power law in frequency, the ...
Spectral flux density. In spectroscopy, spectral flux density is the quantity that describes the rate at which energy is transferred by electromagnetic radiation through a real or virtual surface, per unit surface area and per unit wavelength (or, equivalently, per unit frequency). It is a radiometric rather than a photometric measure.
The monochromatic AB magnitude is defined as the logarithm of a spectral flux density with the usual scaling of astronomical magnitudes and a zero-point of about 3 631 janskys (symbol Jy), [1] where 1 Jy = 10−26 W Hz−1 m−2 = 10−23 erg s−1 Hz−1 cm−2 ("about" because the true definition of the zero point is based on magnitudes as ...
The equivalent width of a spectral line is a measure of the area of the line on a plot of intensity versus wavelength in relation to underlying continuum level. It is found by forming a rectangle with a height equal to that of continuum emission, and finding the width such that the area of the rectangle is equal to the area in the spectral line ...
Through Planck's law the temperature spectrum of a black body is proportionally related to the frequency of light and one may substitute the temperature (T) for the frequency in this equation. For the case of a source moving directly towards or away from the observer, this reduces to T ′ = T c − v c + v . {\displaystyle T'=T{\sqrt {\frac {c ...
In astronomy, a period-luminosity relation is a relationship linking the luminosity of pulsating variable stars with their pulsation period. The best-known relation is the direct proportionality law holding for Classical Cepheid variables, sometimes called the Leavitt Law. [2][3][4] Discovered in 1908 by Henrietta Swan Leavitt, the relation ...
In radiometry, radiant exposure or fluence is the radiant energy received by a surface per unit area, or equivalently the irradiance of a surface, integrated over time of irradiation, and spectral exposure is the radiant exposure per unit frequency or wavelength, depending on whether the spectrum is taken as a function of frequency or of wavelength.