Lorentz-invariant specific intensity

ID: lorentz-invariant-specific-intensity

The photon phase-space occupation is a Lorentz scalar. For radiation propagating through vacuum, this makes specific intensity divided by cubed frequency invariant under a change of inertial observer. With Doppler factor , . This describes corresponding ray directions; it does not assert that an angularly integrated radiation field is isotropic in both frames.

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