Units of radiation
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Jump to navigationJump to searchShort Topical Videos[edit]
- Photon Buckets: How (Radio) Telescopes Receive Power (by Aaron Parsons)
- Units of Radiation (by Zaki Ali)
Main Questions[edit]
- What is the point of talking about specific intensity?
- Why use the Jansky? What does flux density mean?
- Which quantities depend upon observing conditions and which are intrinsic to the source?
Resources[edit]
The NRAO Essential Radio Astronomy course explains this pretty well in their chapter on Brightness.
