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Convert from Jy/beam km/s to W/m$^2$
I need to compare some ALMA observations of a protoplanetary disk to disk-integrated fluxes obtained from a model.
The ALMA observations are upper limits of non-detected spectral lines, where the RMS ...
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Flux density from brightness map
This is a naive question. I have a temperature map of radio emission at 1420 MHz, in Kelvin. I want to extract the flux density (in Janskys) from an extended region of this map.
Is the flux density ($...
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A "strange" unit radio astronomy
I'm reading up on radio astronomy, and I came across this paper from 1964. At the bottom of page 193, the author uses a unit that I've not seen before in discussing radio power emission from stars:
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Units in optical and radio spectral data cubes: Flux vs Brightness
I have noticed that the units used in spectral data cubes coming from optical IFU instruments are usually in $erg/s/cm^2/Ang/pixel$. To my understanding this is a measure of Flux. Right?
However, in ...
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Converting Jy/beam to Jy?
Maybe its a dumb question, but to convert Jy/beam to Jy, I just have to multiply it by the beam size in sr right?
Being $\Omega$ the beam size:
$\Omega = \frac{\pi \theta_{maj} ~~ \theta_{min}}{4 \...
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Why levels of radio contours maps are given in mJy/beam and what does it mean?
I know what a jansky is, but I don't understand what beam (in $\frac{1 Jy}{beam}$) is.
If jansky is a unit of flux density, what kind of unit is $\frac{1 Jy}{beam}$?
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What is frequency range?
Using the NED, you can search via frequency range corresponding to the selected pass band filter. I'm a beginner here and don't really understand. Here's the quote:
NOTES: Objects with observations ...
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