enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Spectral line - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_line

    Strong spectral lines in the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum often have a unique Fraunhofer line designation, such as K for a line at 393.366 nm emerging from singly-ionized calcium atom, Ca +, though some of the Fraunhofer "lines" are blends of multiple lines from several different species.

  3. Stark effect - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_effect

    The Stark effect is the shifting and splitting of spectral lines of atoms and molecules due to the presence of an external electric 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 field. Although initially coined for the static case, it is ...

  4. Zeeman effect - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeman_effect

    The spectral lines of mercury vapor lamp at wavelength 546.1 nm, showing anomalous Zeeman effect. (A) Without magnetic field. (B) With magnetic field, spectral lines split as transverse Zeeman effect. (C) With magnetic field, split as longitudinal Zeeman effect. The spectral lines were obtained using a Fabry–Pérot interferometer.

  5. Stellar classification - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_classification

    DZ – a metal-rich atmosphere, indicated by metal spectral lines (a merger of the obsolete white dwarf spectral types, DG, DK, and DM). DC – no strong spectral lines indicating one of the above categories. DX – spectral lines are insufficiently clear to classify into one of the above categories.

  6. Fraunhofer lines - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_lines

    The Fraunhofer lines are typical spectral absorption lines. Absorption lines are narrow regions of decreased intensity in a spectrum, which are the result of photons being absorbed as light passes from the source to the detector. In the Sun, Fraunhofer lines are a result of gas in the Sun's atmosphere and outer photosphere. These regions have ...

  7. Spectral line shape - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral_line_shape

    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 or weaker intensity in the spectrum. Ideal line shapes include Lorentzian , Gaussian and Voigt functions, whose parameters are the line position, maximum height and half-width. [ 1 ]

  8. Quasar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasar

    Quasar redshifts are measured from the strong spectral lines that dominate their visible and ultraviolet emission spectra. These lines are brighter than the continuous spectrum. They exhibit Doppler broadening corresponding to mean speed of several percent of the speed of light. Fast motions strongly indicate a large mass. Emission lines of ...

  9. Calcium triplet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_triplet

    The infrared Ca II triplet, commonly known as the calcium triplet, is a triplet of three ionised calcium spectral lines at the wavelengths of 8498 Å, 8542 Å and 8662 Å (measured in air). The triplet has a strong emission, [1] and is most prominently observed in the absorption of spectral type G, K and M stars. [2] [3] [4]