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1 Jy = 1x10^(-26) W m^(-2) s As far as I'm aware, Jansky is a measure of energy radiation, named after the founder of radio astronomy. Yes, I'm just trying to see if anyone knows of a connection between peak flux density (in Jy) to the gain of the methanol signal (in dB) ? I can't seem to...

Hi I'm an MPhys Physics with Astro student, conducting my final year project in the field of radio astronomy (well, it's more like electronics at the moment - trying to fix a downconverter, but anyway...) My question: I'm interested in observing the 6.67GHz methanol maser emission. For a...