Thanks Peter, I'll just use mu then (albeit the surface brightness may
not be in units of mags per square arcsec, but may be (e.g.) MJy/sr).
David
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Peter W. Draper wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, David Berry wrote:
>
> > Pardon my astronimcal ignorance, but is there a standard mathematical
> > symbol used to represent surface brightness?
>
> Dr Moan says: confusingly it's mu, but with a subscript denoting the
> passband, so $\mu_{B}$, for mags per square arcsecond in B.
>
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