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  2. Fraunhofer lines - Wikipedia

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    A demonstration of the 589 nm D 2 (left) and 590 nm D 1 (right) emission sodium D lines using a wick with salt water in a flame. The Fraunhofer C, F, G′, and h lines correspond to the alpha, beta, gamma, and delta lines of the Balmer series of emission lines of the hydrogen atom. The Fraunhofer letters are now rarely used for those lines.

  3. Schwarzschild's equation for radiative transfer - Wikipedia

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    In "line-by-line" methods, the change in spectral intensity (dI λ, W/sr/m 2 /μm) is numerically integrated using a wavelength increment small enough (less than 1 nm) to accurately describe the shape of each absorption line. The HITRAN database contains the parameters needed to describe 7.4 million absorption lines for 47 GHGs and 120 ...

  4. Spectral line shape - Wikipedia

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    Emission spectrum of a fluorescent light, exhibiting many spectral lines. Each line corresponds to an energy level in one of the elements inside the light. A spectral line can result from an electron transition in an atom, molecule or ion, which is associated with a specific amount of energy, E. When this energy is measured by means of some ...

  5. Spectral line - Wikipedia

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    A spectral line may be observed either as an emission line or an absorption line. Which type of line is observed depends on the type of material and its temperature relative to another emission source. An absorption line is produced when photons from a hot, broad spectrum source pass through a cooler material.

  6. Hydrogen spectral series - Wikipedia

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    The four visible hydrogen emission spectrum lines in the Balmer series. H-alpha is the red line at the right. The Balmer series includes the lines due to transitions from an outer orbit n > 2 to the orbit n' = 2. Named after Johann Balmer, who discovered the Balmer formula, an empirical equation to predict the Balmer series, in 1885.

  7. Spectrum (physical sciences) - Wikipedia

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    If we made a graph of the strength of each channel vs. the frequency of the tuner, it would be the frequency spectrum of the antenna signal. In astronomical spectroscopy , the strength, shape, and position of absorption and emission lines, as well as the overall spectral energy distribution of the continuum, reveal many properties of ...

  8. Equivalent width - Wikipedia

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    The equivalent width of a spectral line is a measure of the area of the line on a plot of intensity versus wavelength in relation to underlying continuum level. It is found by forming a rectangle with a height equal to that of continuum emission, and finding the width such that the area of the rectangle is equal to the area in the spectral line.

  9. Einstein coefficients - Wikipedia

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    An atomic spectral line refers to emission and absorption events in a gas in which is the density of atoms in the upper-energy state for the line, and is the density of atoms in the lower-energy state for the line. The emission of atomic line radiation at frequency ν may be described by an emission coefficient with units of energy/(time × ...