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  2. Poynting–Robertson effect - Wikipedia

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    This anisotropic emission causes the photons to carry away angular momentum from the dust grain. The Poynting–Robertson drag acts in the opposite direction to the dust grain's orbital motion, leading to a drop in the grain's angular momentum. While the dust grain thus spirals slowly into the star, its orbital speed increases continuously.

  3. Redshift - Wikipedia

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    In 1887, Vogel and Scheiner discovered the "annual Doppler effect", the yearly change in the Doppler shift of stars located near the ecliptic, due to the orbital velocity of the Earth. [7] In 1901, Aristarkh Belopolsky verified optical redshift in the laboratory using a system of rotating mirrors.

  4. Gravitational redshift - Wikipedia

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    The GPS satellite gravitational blueshift velocity equivalent is less than 0.2 m/s, which is negligible compared to the actual Doppler shift resulting from its orbital velocity. In astronomical objects with strong gravitational fields the redshift can be much greater; for example, light from the surface of a white dwarf is gravitationally ...

  5. Doppler spectroscopy - Wikipedia

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    Doppler spectroscopy (also known as the radial-velocity method, or colloquially, the wobble method) is an indirect method for finding extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs from radial-velocity measurements via observation of Doppler shifts in the spectrum of the planet's parent star. As of November 2022, about 19.5% of known extrasolar planets ...

  6. Radar signal characteristics - Wikipedia

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    Doppler spectrum. Deliberately no units given (but could be dBu and MHz for example). This is an issue only with a particular type of system; the pulse-Doppler radar, which uses the Doppler effect to resolve velocity from the apparent change in frequency caused by targets that have net radial velocities compared to the radar device. Examination ...

  7. Velocity dispersion - Wikipedia

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    For spiral galaxies, the increase in velocity dispersion in population I stars is a gradual process which likely results from the near-random incidence of momentum exchanges, specifically dynamical friction, between individual stars and large interstellar media (gas and dust clouds) with masses greater than 10 5 M ☉. [8]

  8. Space dust measurement - Wikipedia

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    Dust accelerator tests show that dust trajectories can be determined to an accuracy of 1% in velocity and 1° in direction. [98] The second element of a Dust Telescope is a Large-area Mass Analyzer: [99] a reflectron type time-of-flight mass analyzer with a sensitive area of up to 0.2 m 2 [100] and a mass resolution R > 150. It consists of a ...

  9. Frequency ambiguity resolution - Wikipedia

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    Radial velocity aliasing occurs when reflections arrive from reflectors moving fast enough for the Doppler frequency to exceed the pulse repetition frequency (PRF). Frequency ambiguity resolution is required to obtain the true radial velocity when the measurements is made using a system where the following inequality is true.