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Temperature as a measure of power |
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![]() | ![]() | One can treat the power received from an astronomical source as being roughly equivalent to that of a black body.Formally, a black body is represented by the Planck law, where k is the Boltzmann constant and h is the Planck constant. |
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![]() | ![]() | However, for low frequencies (and temperatures that are not too low, thus for |
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![]() | ![]() | This implies that the power received is directly proportional to a temperature. Now, WHICH power are we talking about? |
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