Brightness temperature

Measure of electromagnetic energy

Brightness temperature or radiance temperature is a measure of the intensity of electromagnetic energy coming from a source. 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 } . This concept is used in radio astronomy, planetary science, materials science and climatology.

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