The atoms are cooled with lasers and trapped with magnetic fields at very cold,
microkelvin temperatures.
Not exact matches
When the team subtracted the dipole pattern, they found «ripples» — residual
temperature variations of 0.011 per cent (30 5
microkelvin)-- dotted around the sky in regions away from the Galaxy.
The strontium atoms in each standard are isolated from the environment and from one another: cooled to a
temperature below 10
microkelvins, they are situated inside an ultrahigh vacuum chamber and immobilized in a specially constructed optical trap generated by the beam of a supplementary laser.