Doppler boosting of a moving blob
ID: doppler-boosting-of-a-moving-blob
For an unresolved, isotropically emitting rest-frame blob with power-law spectrum , the observed spectral flux density at a fixed frequency is enhanced by . The factors follow from Lorentz-invariant specific intensity and the frequency shift. The bolometric or corresponding-logarithmic-bin luminosity transforms with . A spatially steady continuous jet has a different equal-arrival-time sampling and can have exponent instead.
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