[SCIDB-97] spectrum viewer: allow users to change flux units Created: 19/May/20  Updated: 04/Dec/20  Resolved: 04/Dec/20

Status: Done
Project: Science Database
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Type: Story Priority: Normal
Reporter: Masayuki Tanaka Assignee: Manuchehr Taghizadeh-Popp
Resolution: Done Votes: 0
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 Description   

Allow users to change flux units. Most freuqnely used ways to represent spectral fluxes  will be f_lambda, f_nu, and AB magnitude.  In cgs,

 

f_lambda [erg/s/cm2/A] 

f_nu [erg/s/cm2/Hz] 

 

These two are related to each other by 

 

lambda * f_lambda = nu * f_nu

 

(recall lambda * nu = c, and mind the unit difference; lambda is often Ansgtrom, while c is cm/s) 

 

Note that the conversion is thus wavelength/frequency dependent.

 

AB mag is given by mag = -2.5 * log10 (f_nu) - 48.60 

 

PFS uses nJy, which is 10^-23 erg/s/cm2/Hz.  So, a source with 1 nJy has an AB magnitude of 31.4. 


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