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The brightness temperature is not a temperature as ordinarily understood. It characterizes radiation, and depending on the mechanism of radiation can differ considerably from the physical temperature of a radiating body (though it is theoretically possible to construct a device which will heat up by
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For radiation emitted by a non-thermal source such as a pulsar, synchrotron, maser, or a laser, the brightness temperature may be far higher than the actual temperature of the source. In this case, the brightness temperature is simply a measure of the intensity of the radiation as it would be
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of the surface. Since the emissivity is a value between 0 and 1, the real temperature will be greater than or equal to the brightness temperature. At high frequencies (short wavelengths) and low temperatures, the conversion must proceed through
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In oceanography, the microwave brightness temperature, as measured by satellites looking at the ocean surface, depends on salinity as well as on the temperature and roughness (e.g. from wind-driven waves) of the water.
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with a power of 1 mW, a frequency spread Δf = 1 GHz, an output aperture of 1 mm, and a beam dispersion half-angle of 0.56 mrad, the brightness temperature would be
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emitted by an object simply by virtue of its temperature, then the actual temperature of the object will always be equal to or higher than the brightness temperature. Since the
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is a measure of the intensity of electromagnetic energy coming from a source. In particular, it is the temperature at which a
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In some applications, the brightness temperature of a surface is determined by an optical measurement, for example using a
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a source of radiation with some brightness temperature to the actual temperature equal to brightness temperature).
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is limited by 1, the brightness temperature is a lower bound of the object’s actual temperature.
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The brightness temperature provides "a more physically recognizable way to describe intensity".
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it is the same at all frequencies. The brightness temperature can be used to calculate the
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The brightness temperature of a source with known spectral radiance can be expressed as:
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For almost monochromatic radiation, the brightness temperature can be expressed by the
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Spectral radiance of black-body radiation is expressed by wavelength as:
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the brightness temperature can reach 10 K. For the radiation of a
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Nonthermal sources can have very high brightness temperatures. In
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Philosophical Transactions: Physical Sciences and Engineering
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so that the brightness temperature can be simply written as:
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is a portion of the black body radiance, determined by the
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In general, the brightness temperature is a function of
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So, the brightness temperature can be calculated as:
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would have to be in order to duplicate the observed
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Index

black body
intensity
grey body
radio astronomy
planetary science
materials science
climatology
thermal radiation
emissivity
pyrometer
emissivity
Planck's law
pulsars
helium–neon laser
Planck's law
Intensity
energy
surface area
solid angle
temperature
Planck constant
frequency
speed of light
Boltzmann constant
spectral radiance
emissivity
Rayleigh–Jeans law
blackbody radiation
spectral index
narrowband

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