Radio Brightness (Noun)
Meaning
The strength of a radio wave picked up by a radio telescope.
Classification
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
Examples
- The faint radio_brightness of the distant quasar was almost undetectable by the radio telescope.
- Astronomers measure the radio_brightness of celestial objects such as stars and galaxies to determine their properties.
- By analyzing the radio_brightness of this galaxy, we determined that it has a supermassive black hole at its center.
- The new radio telescope allowed us to measure the radio_brightness of the supernova remnant with unprecedented precision.
- Changes in the radio_brightness of the pulsar indicated that it was orbiting a companion star.