I understand the division of units, what I’d like to see is an illustration of the signal’s cone at the astronomical distances in the article.
For an arcsec, the square sin is ~85e-9. At the distance of the Moon, that means the signal occupies ~400km^2. At the distance of the Sun, ~5 billions of km^2 (5Mm^2).
The signal intensity is inversely proportional to that area.