Sunday, 9 June 2013

Time dilation ,Blue,(Red-) shifting and Lorentz invariants

Time dilation 

Time dilation is a well-known consequence of special relativity and accounts for a change in observed luminosity of
D^1\,.

Blue- (Red-) shifting 

Blue shifting (or red shifting) can change the observed luminosity at a particular frequency, but this is not a beaming effect.
Blue-shifting accounts for a change in observed luminosity of
\frac{1}{D^\alpha}\,.

Lorentz invariants

 A more-sophisticated method of deriving the beaming equations starts with the quantity \frac{S}{\nu^3}. This quantity is a Lorentz invariant, so the value is the same in different reference frames.

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