• A spectral line is a weaker or stronger region in an otherwise uniform and continuous spectrum. It may result from emission or absorption of light in...
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    Spectral line shape or spectral line profile describes the form of an electromagnetic spectrum in the vicinity of a spectral line – a region of stronger...
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    Least-squares spectral analysis List of spectroscopists Metamerism (color) Operando spectroscopy Scattering theory Spectral line ratios Spectral power distribution...
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    A spectral color is a color that is evoked by monochromatic light, i.e. either a spectral line with a single wavelength or frequency of light in the visible...
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  • intensity in an experiment can be challenging, the ratio of different spectral line intensities can be used to achieve information about the plasma, as...
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    The hydrogen line, 21 centimeter line, or H I line is a spectral line that is created by a change in the energy state of solitary, electrically neutral...
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  • six million spectral lines and is maintained by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). The name is a portmanteau of "spectral line catalogue"...
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    i.e. they are composed of more than one wavelength of light. This spectral line broadening has many different causes. Emission spectroscopy is often...
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    Hydrogen-alpha (redirect from H-alpha line)
    deep-red visible spectral line of the hydrogen atom with a wavelength of 656.28 nm in air and 656.46 nm in vacuum. It is the first spectral line in the Balmer...
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    Lyman-alpha (redirect from Lyman alpha line)
    Lyman-alpha, typically denoted by Ly-α or Lyα, is a spectral line of hydrogen (or, more generally, of any one-electron atom) in the Lyman series. It is...
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  • Balmer series (redirect from Balmer line)
    atomic physics, is one of a set of six named series describing the spectral line emissions of the hydrogen atom. The Balmer series is calculated using...
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  • Line spectral pairs (LSP) or line spectral frequencies (LSF) are used to represent linear prediction coefficients (LPC) for transmission over a channel...
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    The equivalent width of a spectral line is a measure of the area of the line on a plot of intensity versus wavelength in relation to underlying continuum...
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  • Spectral is a 2016 Hungarian-American military science fiction action film co-written and directed by Nic Mathieu. Written with Ian Fried & George Nolfi...
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    The Zeeman effect (Dutch: [ˈzeːmɑn]) is the splitting of a spectral line into several components in the presence of a static magnetic field. It is caused...
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    instruments: broadband continuum receivers and heterodyne detection spectral line receivers. Continuum emission is a tracer of star formation in other...
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    spectral bands refer to the electromagnetic emission of polyatomic systems, including condensed materials, large molecules, etc. Each spectral line corresponds...
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  • Spectral imaging is imaging that uses multiple bands across the electromagnetic spectrum. While an ordinary camera captures light across three wavelength...
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    {1}{(2\tau _{c})^{-1}+i2\pi (\nu -\nu _{q})}}.} Each mode has a normalized spectral line shape per unit frequency interval given by γ ~ q ( ν ) = 1 τ c | E ~...
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    2019 by Ge and colleagues which utilizes the C IV emission line, an alternative spectral line to Hβ, using the same data reproduced by the earlier paper...
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  • Free spectral range (FSR) is the spacing in optical frequency or wavelength between two successive reflected or transmitted optical intensity maxima or...
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    describes the equivalent width of a spectral line as a function of the column density of the material from which the spectral line is observed. The curve of growth...
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    current-densities produce narrow spectral-line emission, against a faint background of continuous radiation. Xenon has many spectral lines in the UV, blue, green...
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    proposed them in 1916. In physics, one thinks of a spectral line from two viewpoints. An emission line is formed when an atom or molecule makes a transition...
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    typically being black-body radiation and spectral band emission, with both spectral line emission and spectral line absorption playing smaller roles. In the...
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    and excimer lasers), each of which resonates and amplifies a single spectral line. Krypton fluoride also makes a useful laser medium. From 1960 to 1983...
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    state. This gives a stronger spectral line. However, there are other factors that influence the intensity of a spectral line, such as whether it is caused...
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  • of this spectral line by Chandra and XMM-Newton failed to find such a line, and thus, there is debate about whether the spectral line is evidence of dark...
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    field. It is the electric-field analogue of the Zeeman effect, where a spectral line is split into several components due to the presence of the magnetic...
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    which they called "Ångström", based on the wavelength of a specific spectral line. It was only in 1960, when the metre was redefined in the same way,...
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