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  2. Doppler effect - Wikipedia

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    The Doppler effect (also Doppler shift) is the change in the frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the source of the wave. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The Doppler effect is named after the physicist Christian Doppler , who described the phenomenon in 1842.

  3. Relativistic Doppler effect - Wikipedia

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    The relativistic Doppler effect is the change in frequency, wavelength and amplitude [1] of light, caused by the relative motion of the source and the observer (as in the classical Doppler effect, first proposed by Christian Doppler in 1842 [2]), when taking into account effects described by the special theory of relativity.

  4. Doppler broadening - Wikipedia

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    A particular case is the thermal Doppler broadening due to the thermal motion of the particles. Then, the broadening depends only on the frequency of the spectral line, the mass of the emitting particles, and their temperature , and therefore can be used for inferring the temperature of an emitting (or absorbing) body being spectroscopically ...

  5. Time dilation - Wikipedia

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    When unspecified, "time dilation" usually refers to the effect due to velocity. After compensating for varying signal delays resulting from the changing distance between an observer and a moving clock (i.e. Doppler effect), the observer will measure the moving clock as ticking more slowly than a clock at rest in the observer's own reference frame.

  6. Redshift - Wikipedia

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    A complete derivation of the effect can be found in the article on the relativistic Doppler effect. In brief, objects moving close to the speed of light will experience deviations from the above formula due to the time dilation of special relativity which can be corrected for by introducing the Lorentz factor γ into the classical Doppler ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Doppler tracking - Wikipedia

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    Doppler tracking.The Doppler effect allows the measurement of the distance between a transmitter from space and a receiver on the ground by observing how the frequency received from the transmitter changes as it approaches the transmitter, is overhead, and moves away.

  9. Doppler parameter - Wikipedia

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    The Doppler parameters of Lyman-alpha forest absorption lines are in the range 10–100 km s −1, with a median value around = that decrease with redshift (Kim et al. 1997). Analyses of the HST / COS dataset of low-redshift quasars gives a median b {\displaystyle b} parameter of around 33 k m s − 1 {\displaystyle 33\ \mathrm {km\ s} ^{-1 ...