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Fig. 1

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Sketch illustrating the various quantities involved when deriving the observable luminosity of a radiating source, whose visible surface is shaded in blue. When the observer is at infinity, the emitting surface is a sphere, and Ro is measured from the origin of this sphere, one obtains α = γ.

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