Sentences with phrase «velocities along the line of sight»
The spectra revealed each star's velocity along our line of sight, because a star moving towards us shows a blue shift in its spectrum, whereas a star moving away from us shows a red shift.
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Combining this tiny displacement with the hole's previously determined velocity along the line of sight as it zooms toward Earth yielded its velocity in three dimensions.
A carbon monoxide spectrum obtained with HARP in the direction of the Galactic Centre showing the presence of three cold clouds with small line widths and one warmer cloud with larger line width, which move at different velocities along the line of sight.
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From these spectra, researchers can identify the molecules present at every point and determine their velocities (speed plus direction) along the line - of - sight; this information provides the third dimension — the depth of the coma.
According to the radial velocity vs. time [10] the radial separation of A and B along the line of sight had reached a maximum in 2007 with B being behind A.