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Problem 42.9 (RHK)


We have to show that, for the 21.1-cm line so much used by radio astronomers, a Doppler frequency shift in kHz can be converted into a radial velocity in by multiplying by 0.211 provided that .


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Frequency of the 21.1 cm line is

,

and the magnitude of the longitudinal Doppler frequency shift for a source moving with radial velocity will be