New insights into black bodies

Planck's law describes the radiation of black bodies. The study of its properties is of special interest, as black bodies are a good description for the behavior of many phenomena. In this work a new mathematical study of Planck's law is performed and new properties of this old acquaintanc...

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Published in:Europhysics letters 2012-02, Vol.97 (3), p.34008
Main Author: Ballesteros, F. J.
Format: Article
Language:English
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44.40.+a
95.75.Mn
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Summary:Planck's law describes the radiation of black bodies. The study of its properties is of special interest, as black bodies are a good description for the behavior of many phenomena. In this work a new mathematical study of Planck's law is performed and new properties of this old acquaintance are obtained. As a result, the exact form for the locus in a color-color diagram has been deduced, and an analytical formula to determine with precision the black-body temperature of an object from any pair of measurements has been developed. Thus, by using two images of the same field obtained with different filters, one can compute a fast estimation of black-body temperatures for every pixel in the image, that is, a new image of the black-body temperatures for all the objects in the field. Once these temperatures are obtained, the method allows, as a consequence, a quick estimation of their emission in other frequencies, assuming a black-body behavior. These results provide new tools for data analysis.
ISSN:0295-5075
1286-4854
DOI:10.1209/0295-5075/97/34008