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  2. Kirchhoff's law of thermal radiation - Wikipedia

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    In slightly different terms, the emissive power of an arbitrary opaque body of fixed size and shape at a definite temperature can be described by a dimensionless ratio, sometimes called the emissivity: the ratio of the emissive power of the body to the emissive power of a black body of the same size and shape at the same fixed temperature. With ...

  3. Emissivity - Wikipedia

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    Emissivity of a body at a given temperature is the ratio of the total emissive power of a body to the total emissive power of a perfectly black body at that temperature. Following Planck's law , the total energy radiated increases with temperature while the peak of the emission spectrum shifts to shorter wavelengths.

  4. Schwarzschild's equation for radiative transfer - Wikipedia

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    Schwarzschild's equation is the formula by which you may calculate the intensity of any flux of electromagnetic energy after passage through a non-scattering medium when all variables are fixed, provided we know the temperature, pressure, and composition of the medium.

  5. Planck's law - Wikipedia

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    When there is thermodynamic equilibrium at temperature T, the cavity radiation from the walls has that unique universal value, so that I ν,Y (T Y) = B ν (T). Further, one may define the emissivity ε ν,X (T X) of the material of the body X just so that at thermodynamic equilibrium at temperature T X = T, one has I ν,X (T X) = I ν,X (T ...

  6. Stefan–Boltzmann law - Wikipedia

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    The temperature Stefan obtained was a median value of previous ones, 1950 °C and the absolute thermodynamic one 2200 K. As 2.57 4 = 43.5, it follows from the law that the temperature of the Sun is 2.57 times greater than the temperature of the lamella, so Stefan got a value of 5430 °C or 5700 K. This was the first sensible value for the ...

  7. Effective temperature - Wikipedia

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    The effective temperature of the Sun (5778 kelvins) is the temperature a black body of the same size must have to yield the same total emissive power.. The effective temperature of a star is the temperature of a black body with the same luminosity per surface area (F Bol) as the star and is defined according to the Stefan–Boltzmann law F Bol = σT eff 4.

  8. Wien's displacement law - Wikipedia

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    Blacksmiths work iron when it is hot enough to emit plainly visible thermal radiation. The color of a star is determined by its temperature, according to Wien's law. In the constellation of Orion, one can compare Betelgeuse (T ≈ 3800 K, upper left), Rigel (T = 12100 K, bottom right), Bellatrix (T = 22000 K, upper right), and Mintaka (T = 31800 K, rightmost of the 3 "belt stars" in the middle).

  9. Brightness temperature - Wikipedia

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    In some applications, the brightness temperature of a surface is determined by an optical measurement, for example using a pyrometer, with the intention of determining the real temperature. As detailed below, the real temperature of a surface can in some cases be calculated by dividing the brightness temperature by the emissivity of the surface ...