Sentences with phrase «specific spectral lines»

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.

Not exact matches

Radiating the antihydrogen atoms with microwaves allowed the physicists to determine its light fingerprint in a rather indirect way, using specific changes in the antihydrogen that caused them to eject from the magnetic bottle to fine tune estimates on its spectral lines.

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.