Harvard Astronomy 201b

Answer to question (6)

In Uncategorized on March 28, 2013 at 7:10 am

mJy are a unit of specific intensity, or flux at a particular frequency.  Integrated intensity is therefore mJy times Hz (or 1/s).  One can convert Hz to km/s by determining what velocity is implied by a given frequency shift \Delta\nu/\nu, and that is what has been done here, with \nu \approx 23. GHz.

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