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May I treat the light from a star as a light beam?
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[QUOTE="tech99, post: 6833850, member: 477979"] The light received from the star does, of course, comprise the addition of random contributions from every point of the surface. It is the sum of many noise sources, which creates a single, more intense, noise source. You might, however, be interested to read on Wiki about the Hanbury-Brown effect, which allows the diameter of the closer stars to be found using an interferometer based on noise correlation. [/QUOTE]
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