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Comoving spectral emissivity is emitted spectral luminosity per comoving volume, measured using source-rest-frame time and frequency. For identical sources with comoving number density $n_c$, it is ${ϵ}_{\nu }=n_c{L}_{\nu }$. For a population with a luminosity function, integrate its rest-frame spectral luminosity over that distribution. Multiplying a proper-volume emissivity by $a^3$ gives this comoving convention for dimensionless scale factor $a$.

Let ${ϵ}_{{\nu }_e}(z)$ 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: $d{V}_c=r^2(c/H)dzd\Omega$, whereas $F_{{\nu }_0}=(1+z)L_{{\nu }_e}/[4\pi (1+z{)}^2{r}^2]$. Absorption inserts a transmission factor, and evolving sources are represented by the redshift dependence of $ϵ$.