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Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Few concepts in astrophysics radiation

Luminosity:
Power that the source emits in radiation
[L]=erg/s=107W
E=Ldt

Flux:
Power received per unit area ϕ=L/(4πd2)
[ϕ]=W/m2
E=allareadtdA

Flux density/ specific density (specific refers to Hz1)
Power received per unit area and unit frequency
Flux is the integrate of  flux density ϕ=Fνdν
Astronomers often say flux when they mean flux density
[Fν]=W/m2/Hz
Jy=1026W/m2/Hz
E=FνdνdAdt

Surface luminosity/ specific intensity
Power received or emitted per unit are per unit frequency per unit solid angle
dFν=Iνcos(θ)dΩ
Specific intensity is independent on the distance ?
mean specific intensity Jν=14πIνdΩ
[Iν=W/m2/sr/Hz]
The perceived measurement area orthogonal to the incident flux is significantly reduced at oblique angles, causing energy to be spread out over a wider area than it would if it was falling perpendicular to the surface.

Brightness temperature
It is the temperature that a black-body source would have in order to be the same brightness
Black-body for Rayleigh-Jeans region where hν<<kT gives Iν=2kT/λ2
TB(v)=Iνλ2/(2K)

Radiation energy density
uv(Ω) is the specific energy density. It is the energy in the radiation field per unit frequency per unit volume per unit solid angle. The volume of field incident on the target is dV=ccosθdAdt.
Therefore dE=uv(Ω)ccosθdAdtdνdΩ.
dE=IνcosθdνdAdt
So, uv(Ω)=Iνc.
uν is uν() integrated over all angles; it has units Jm3/Hz
 U is uν integrated over all frequencies i.e. the total energy density in EM fields; it has units Jm3.

Radiation pressure
For photons of momentum p=E/c. Since p=pcosθ, then the momentum per unit area per unit time per unit frequency of a radiation field is
pν=1cIνcosθ2dΩ.
p=pcosθ=E/ccosθ
The definition of pν is dp/dA/dt/dν=dE/c/dA/dt/dνcosθ=1cFνcosθ, and Fν=IνcosθdΩ.
[pν]=scmerg/cm2/s/sr/Hzsr=erg/(cm/s)/(cm2)=momentum/s/area/Hz.

For isotropic radiation perfectly reflected by a wall (so the total momentum change is twice the incident momentum), and P=dF/dA and F=dp/dt
F=Δp/(unittime)=2p/(unittime)
P=ν2π2cIνcosθ2dΩdν=13U
[P]=Force/cm2

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Note that the number of photons per unit area hitting the film is proportional to cosθ if the normal to the film is tilted by an angle θ from the ray direction. This is just the same projection effect that reduces the amount of water collected by a tilted rain gauge by cosθ.
If energy dEν flows through dA in time dt in the frequency range ν to
ν+dν within the solid angle dΩ on a ray which points an angle θ away the surface normal,
dEν=(dAdtdνdΩIν)cosθ,
Iν=dEν/dA/dt/dν/dΩ/cosθ.

If a source is discrete, meaning that it subtends a well-defined solid angle, the spectral power received by a detector of unit projected area is called the source flux density Fν.
Fν=dEν/dt/dA/dν=sourceIνcosθdΩ
Flux density is dependent of source distance d, since source1d2.

The flux density of the Sun.
θ=arcsin(Rs/d)
Fν=sunIνcosθdΩ=2πθ0Iνsinθcosθdθ
Fν=sunIνcosθdΩ=2πsunIνsinθdsinθ
Fν=2πIν12sin2θ=πIνθ2.
flux density = (πθ2=Ω) specific intensity


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