Planet-star radius estimate in the Rayleigh-Jeans limit

ID: planet-star-radius-estimate-in-the-rayleigh-jeans-limit

For blackbody star and planet observed at one common wavelength sufficiently long for the Rayleigh-Jeans law to hold for both,
This follows by substituting in the thermal eclipse depth. A radiative flux ratio alone does not determine the radius without a planetary brightness temperature and a stellar temperature. Spectral peaks interpreted with Wien's displacement law must refer to , not or .

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