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For an internally illuminated isotropic rest-frame blob with an unbroken power-law spectrum, use $R^{\prime }\sim Dc\Delta t_{\mathrm{obs}}$, a corresponding-bin luminosity boost $D^4$, and the internal pair-production target energy in a relativistic blob. At fixed observed gamma-ray energy,Here $F_{\log }=\nu F_{\nu }$ and ${ϵ}_{20}$ is the target energy at $D=1$. The frequently used $D^{-6}$ is the $\alpha =1$ case, not a universal law for every spectral energy distribution. Geometry, spectral breaks and external illumination affect the result.

A radiation spectrum whose spectral flux density follows a power law over a stated frequency range. For $F_{\nu }\propto {\nu }^{-\alpha }$, the spectral energy distribution satisfies $\nu F_{\nu }\propto {\nu }^{1-\alpha }$. Thus $\alpha =1$ gives equal energy flux in equal logarithmic frequency intervals. A spectral break invalidates extrapolation with a single index.