spectrograph
IPA: spˈɛktrʌgræf
noun
- A machine for recording spectra, producing spectrograms.
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Examples of "spectrograph" in Sentences
- NASA calls the spectrograph is its primary black-hole hunter.
- With Saturday's camera remedy, fixing the spectrograph is a bonus.
- The tip-off was its spectrum, the rainbow of colors that appears when starlight is smeared out in an instrument called a spectrograph.
- A spectrum is created when an instrument called a spectrograph spreads light from an object apart into a rainbow of different wavelengths.
- The astronomers used an instrument on Spitzer, called a spectrograph, to break apart the star's light and look for fingerprints of chemicals, in what is called a spectrum.
- It was among a trove of 50 exoplanets they detected around nearby stars using a spectrograph called the High Accuracy Radial-velocity Planet Searcher HARPS, which is based at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.
- Mayor worked alongside an international team of scientists who made the observation using the low-mass-exoplanet hunting device known as the HARPS spectrograph, which is attached to the 3.6 meter ESO telescope at La Silla, Chile.
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