The reverse black body radiation problem, involving the determination of the area-temperature distribution of a black body from its measured radiated power spectrum has recently been solved by Bojarski. A simplified result restricted to microwave frequencies has also become available recently. Our approach, which is similar to Bojarski's but much simpler, is restricted to submillimeter waves and/or low temperatures.
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Lakhtakia et al. (1984) studied this question.
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