Graduate student Jialu Li, in collaboration with the Argus instrument team and DEGAS project, made these images (the highest
frequency spectral line observations the Green Bank Telescope has ever made) in only 10 hours on 2017 October 25 and 26.
I understand (to some extent) how individual atoms can radiate specific
frequency spectral lines, as a result of energy level transitions of an electron in that atom.
Not exact matches
Yet so far, star formation historians have mostly relied on other indicators to write their histories: light at a particular
frequency that is typically emitted when giant clouds collapse, heating up in the process and radiating away that heat in the form of specific
spectral lines.
With
spectral data taken in a wide
frequency range, we can obtain intensity ratio of various molecular
line emissions.
A
spectral line is a dark or bright
line in an otherwise uniform and continuous spectrum, resulting from emission or absorption of light in a narrow
frequency range, compared with the nearby
frequencies.
We characterize the main emission
lines found in the spectrum, which primarily arise from a range of components associated with Orion KL including the hot core, but... ▽ More We present the first high
spectral resolution observations of Orion KL in the
frequency ranges 1573.4 - 1702.8 GHz (band 6b) and 1788.4 - 1906.8 GHz (band 7b) obtained using the HIFI instrument on board the Herschel Space Observatory.
Note however that all the radiation in a
spectral line is not at exactly a single
frequency, but instead in a small range (band) of
frequencies.