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Astrophysics

The radiation laws

Planck's law gives a blackbody's spectrum; its peak is Wien's law and its area the Stefan-Boltzmann law, so L = 4 pi R^2 sigma T^4 and any two of luminosity, radius and temperature give the third.

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