Surface Brightness - Relationship To Physical Units

Relationship To Physical Units

The surface brightness in magnitude units is related to the surface brightness in physical units of solar luminosity per square parsec by

where and are the absolute magnitude and the luminosity of the Sun in chosen color-band respectively.

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