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  2. Brightness temperature - Wikipedia

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    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 ]

  3. Rayleigh–Jeans law - Wikipedia

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    Comparison of Rayleigh–Jeans law with Wien approximation and Planck's law, for a body of 5800 K temperature.. In physics, the Rayleigh–Jeans law is an approximation to the spectral radiance of electromagnetic radiation as a function of wavelength from a black body at a given temperature through classical arguments.

  4. Stefan–Boltzmann law - Wikipedia

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    Total emitted energy, , of a black body as a function of its temperature, . The upper (black) curve depicts the Stefan–Boltzmann law, M ∘ = σ T 4 {\displaystyle M^{\circ }=\sigma \,T^{4}} . The lower (blue) curve is total energy according to the Wien approximation , M W ∘ = M ∘ / ζ ( 4 ) ≈ 0.924 σ T 4 {\displaystyle M_{W}^{\circ ...

  5. Radiance - Wikipedia

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    Radiance is the integral of the spectral radiance over all frequencies or wavelengths. For radiation emitted by the surface of an ideal black body at a given temperature, spectral radiance is governed by Planck's law, while the integral of its radiance, over the hemisphere into which its surface radiates, is given by the Stefan–Boltzmann law.

  6. Planck's law - Wikipedia

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    L is used here instead of B because it is the SI symbol for spectral radiance. The L in c 1L refers to that. This reference is necessary because Planck's law can be reformulated to give spectral radiant exitance M(λ, T) rather than spectral radiance L(λ, T), in which case c 1 replaces c 1L, with

  7. Wien's displacement law - Wikipedia

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    Formally, the wavelength version of Wien's displacement law states that the spectral radiance of black-body radiation per unit wavelength, peaks at the wavelength given by: = where T is the absolute temperature and b is a constant of proportionality called Wien's displacement constant, equal to 2.897 771 955... × 10 −3 m⋅K, [1] [2] or b ...

  8. 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.

  9. Wien approximation - Wikipedia

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    In this paper, Wien took the wavelength of black-body radiation and combined it with the Maxwell–Boltzmann energy distribution for atoms. The exponential curve was created by the use of Euler's number e raised to the power of the temperature multiplied by a constant.