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- noun Plural form of
waveband .
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This temporal connection between changes in the gamma-ray light and changes in the optical polarization suggests that light in both wavebands is created in the same part of the jet; during those 20 days, something in the local environment changed to cause both the optical and gamma-ray light to vary.
World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" | Universe Today 2010
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Blazars flicker continuously, and researchers expected continual changes in all wavebands.
World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" | Universe Today 2010
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Excellent teamwork by astronomers working in two different wavebands – x-ray and optical – has led to the discovery of a binary quasar being created by a pair of merging galaxies.
Caught in the Act! Merging Galaxies Create a Binary Quasar | Universe Today 2010
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Over a full year of observations, the researchers focused on one particular blazar jet, 3C279, located in the constellation Virgo, monitoring it in many different wavebands: gamma-ray, X-ray, optical, infrared and radio.
World-wide Campaign Sheds New Light on Nature's "LHC" | Universe Today 2010
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Solrey, the Sun is the brightest object in the sky, in all wavebands of the EM spectrum, with the exception of very high energy gammas transients aside; GRBs, SNe, etc, certainly outshine the Sun briefly.
Do "Skeleton" Filaments Give Structure to the Universe? | Universe Today 2009
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Wherever mean value of emittance spectrum is, these wavebands cover only tiny part of cummulative emitted energy.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Reports on both were regularly sent, most on navy wavebands, some attached to innocent-sounding broadcasts from Radio Tokyo.
Sealing Their Fate David Downing 2009
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It's actually an interesting exercise to try to think of all the ways a star (other than the Sun) may be imaged (at least in the UV/visual/NIR wavebands), other than as a point source.
Astronomers Find Type Ia Supernova Just Waiting to Happen | Universe Today 2009
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A loud clatter of gunk music flooded through the Heart of Gold cabin as Zaphod searched the sub-etha radio wavebands for news of himself.
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas 1996
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A loud clatter of gunk music flooded through the Heart of Gold cabin as Zaphod searched the sub-etha radio wavebands for news of himself.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1979
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