Saturday, 5 October 2013

astrophysics - In what units to quote the thermal Blackbody temperature

Im not entirely sure what you mean, but the (planck's) formula for blackbody radiation is given by enter image description here



where h is in [J*s], c in [m/s], lambda in [m], k in [J/K] and T in [K].
So, the temperature is just in Kelvins, not in energy.
This formula, with these units, gives S in [W/m2/m], which describes the amount of energy per temperature and wavelength. There is no need to convert a given temperature to energy.



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