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Black body radiation scales with T^4, but you're relying on one particular band. I suspected it scaled, but T^4 seems rather unlikely ;-)


Most materials scale with T^4. You would need a very weird radiance spectrum to do anything different.

That said, we are talking about something that has a weird radiance spectrum as a selling point, so, expect some deviation from the standard T^4 curve.


I would assume it scales at K*T^4 where K is a constant < 1 and gets smaller as the band narrows.




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