Questions tagged [units]
Use for questions about standards of measurement used for different types of quantities, and for conversions between units.
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I need clarity on the units in this flux equation
I have the following equation used to calculate line flux from equivalent width.
$F_{line}=EW \times F_{cont}$
If $EW$, the equivalent width of a line is in Angstroms, and $F_{cont}$, the continuum ...
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Calculating luminosity from SED
I have an SED with wavelength in microns, and fluxes in mJy. I try the following code but my derived luminosity is a factor of 2 less (I should get 2.5e-3 L_sun). I think I am converting the fluxes ...
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Consistent values for density of galaxies between degree squared and steradian
I have a table of densities of galaxies :
Expected number density of galaxies for photometric survey per unit area and redshift intervals, $\mathrm{d} N / \mathrm{d} \Omega \mathrm{d} z\left[\mathrm{...
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What is value of charge by mass ratio (q/m) for a spherical micro charged particle with surface potential 6 volts in S.I units and in e/amu units?
In Liu and Ip (2014),The Astrophysical Journal, 786:34 (8pp), the value of q/m is derived as follows :
"for a dust grain with radius 'a', from $\phi = \frac{4\pi q}{\varepsilon_0 a}$ we have $\...
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When analyzing a particle moving at Kepler speed, √(GM/R) in a planetary magnetic field, do we need to convert it to angular speed, √(GM/R^3)?
A charged particle is moving in a planetary magnetic field, in a spherical polar coordinates which is corotating with the magnetic field. To solve the equations of motion numerically what would be the ...
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How to convert mW/m^2 to W/m^2/nm?
I have a vizier catalog with H-alpha fluxes as logF(Haplha) in units as mW/m^2. See sample data here: http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-3?-source=J/MNRAS/431/2/fluxes
How do I convert ...
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Using Gaia Passbands with L_nu coordinates
I am trying to find the coordinates of my bundles of gas on the gaia ($G, G_{bp}-G_{rp}$) hr diagram. I have its spectrum in $\nu L_\nu$ coordinates. Thus far, my attempts have mainly been to ...
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How do nuJ(nu) units work?
I'm working with (Nublado) Cloudy, which is essentially a spectral modelling tool for stellar matter. Using the software, I model my own stellar object and obtain its continuum.
According to Hazy, ...
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What is the unit of the correlation function between logarithmically rebinned galaxy spectrum and stellar template spectrum?
Assume I have a logarithmically rebinned galactic spectrum $G(x)$ and a stellar template spectrum $S(x)$, where $x = \ln{\lambda}$. When $[\lambda] = 1 Å$, then $[x] = 1 Np/Å$. The fourier transformed ...
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How to convert Flux Density to Flux?
I have a radio catalogue with flux density values. (Jy/bm) I'm confused converting this value to flux. Because I want to calculate luminosity, I need flux values. The unit made me confused. Since I ...
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Conversion to Jy of Hubble WFC3 units (electrons/s) and of Spitzer IRAC (MJy/sr)
I am trying to figure out how to convert the units of some FITS files to Jy. These files refer to observations in different bands using different instruments. I list them below with my way of ...
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Units in distance parallax relation
Relation between distance d and paralax plx is:
$$d (pc) = 1 / plx(arc)$$
When I want to express plx in mas, will it be
$$d (pc) = 1/[plx(mas)*1000]$$
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$$d (pc) = 1000/plx(mas)$$
Thank you very much
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What does using these units (c=G=M=1) in MHD simulations mean?
I was reading some papers on numerical HD/MHD simulations of black hole accretion disks, and most of them scale their physical quantities to this form of units: c = G = M = 1. I know c = 1 and G = 1 ...
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How do I create a comoving quantity using YT?
I can assign a unit to a scalar using:
x = YTQuantity(scalar, 'kpc')
but how would I specify that the unit should be kpccm? Perhaps it doesn't even make sense to do so? Something as simple as this is ...
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What does par. lines mean in relation to a telescope aperture in 19th century German astronomical publications?
I am trying to understand what is meant by par. lines in an 1867 article "The Aberration of the fixed stars after the wave theory" by Prof. W. Klinkerfues of Royal Astronomy Works of ...
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