Physics A-Level
Synchrotron and thermal radiation
What Synchrotron and thermal radiation means in Physics A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The hot accretion disc radiates thermal emission across visible, UV and X-ray bands, while magnetic fields produce relativistic jets that emit radio waves via synchrotron radiation.
Topics that use Synchrotron and thermal radiation
- Quasars (A-level only) (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Accretion discs and black hole mass
- Active galactic nuclei
- Cosmological redshift
- estimation
- Gravitational potential energy conversion
- Hubble's law
- Inverse-square law
- Quasars
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