Cosmological background intensity from comoving emissivity

ID: cosmological-background-intensity-from-comoving-emissivity

Let be the comoving spectral emissivity, namely total emitted spectral luminosity per comoving volume. In a homogeneous transparent FRW metric, a radial shell contributes its comoving volume times the cosmological spectral flux-density relation. Its transverse-area factors cancel, leaving the displayed integral. In a flat model this cancellation is explicit: , whereas . Absorption inserts a transmission factor, and evolving sources are represented by the redshift dependence of .

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