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    Koronas-Foton (redirect from Coronas-Photon)
    (Russian: Коронас-Фотон), also known as CORONAS-Photon (Complex Orbital Observations Near-Earth of Activity of the Sun-Photon), was a Russian solar research satellite...
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    accelerators, the current leakage caused by coronas can constitute an unwanted load on the circuit. In the air, coronas generate gases such as ozone (O3) and...
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    high frequency photons scattering following an interaction with a charged particle, usually an electron. Specifically, when the photon hits electrons...
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    Photon is a satellite bus based on Rocket Lab's kick stage. It was designed to be highly customizable to serve a variety of uses including LEO payload...
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  • fundamental physical constant of foundational importance in quantum mechanics: a photon's energy is equal to its frequency multiplied by the Planck constant, and...
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    high photon energy is able to ionize atoms, causing chemical reactions. Longer-wavelength radiation such as visible light is nonionizing; the photons do...
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    A corona (pl.: coronas or coronae) is the outermost layer of a star's atmosphere. It is a hot but relatively dim region of plasma populated by intermittent...
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    effect on the electric discharge coronas; more moisture creates larger corona discharges. As the leaf dehydrates, the coronas will naturally decrease in variability...
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    Archived from the original on 21 April 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2010. ""CORONAS-PHOTON" Project". Astrophysics Institute. Moscow Engineering Physics Institute...
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    a hot atmosphere of gas called the corona, which surrounds the accretion disk. As X-ray photons leave the corona in high velocity, they might be absorbed...
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    particle's kinetic energy and photon frequency do not change as a result of the scattering. This limit is valid as long as the photon energy is much smaller...
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    the EUV photons have energies from 10.26 eV up to 124.24 eV where we enter the X-ray energies. EUV is naturally generated by the solar corona and artificially...
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    Ultraviolet (redirect from UV photon)
    lights, such as mercury-vapor lamps, tanning lamps, and black lights. The photons of ultraviolet have greater energy than those of visible light, from about...
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    the Lorentz force law. Electrons radiate or absorb energy in the form of photons when they are accelerated. Laboratory instruments are capable of trapping...
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    the photon sphere must have been emitted by objects between the photon sphere and the event horizon. For a Kerr black hole the radius of the photon sphere...
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    Atmospheric Pressure The Nature of the Positive and Negative Point-to-Plane Coronas and the Mechanism of Spark Propagation". Journal of Applied Physics. 10...
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    Infrared (redirect from NIR Photons)
    properties corresponding to both those of a wave and of a particle, the photon. It was long known that fires emit invisible heat; in 1681 the pioneering...
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    pairs. The creation of multiple avalanches is due to the production of UV photons in the original avalanche, which are not affected by the electric field...
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    a long time for radiation to reach the Sun's surface. Estimates of the photon travel time range between 10,000 and 170,000 years. In contrast, it takes...
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    reported that extragalactic background light (EBL) amounted to 4×1084 photons. As the universe's expansion is accelerating, all currently observable...
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    radius, where heat transfer is by radiation) sets the photon diffusion time scale (or "photon travel time") from the core to the outer edge of the radiative...
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  • specially thinned to admit the EUV photons. Because the detector is about equally sensitive to EUV and visible photons, and the Sun is about one billion...
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    light and dark stripes across arcs, reaching upwards by various amounts. Coronas cover much of the sky and diverge from one point on it. Brekke (1994) also...
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    nearby surfaces. The excited nitrogen deexcites primarily by emission of a photon, with emission lines in ultraviolet, visible, and infrared band: N2* → N2...
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    intermediate level, while in the corona it is more probable that this ion remains in its metastable state, until it encounters a photon of the same frequency of...
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    number of gamma ray emitting high-energy systems like black holes, stellar coronas, neutron stars, white dwarf stars, remnants of supernova, clusters of galaxies...
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  • avalanches in the positive corona are produced by the photoionization of the gas, surrounding the high voltage anode. The photons are emitted in the more...
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  • or high-energy photon absorption. Examples are 13-fold ionized iron, Fe13+ or Fe XIV in spectroscopic notation, found in the Sun's corona, or naked uranium...
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  • the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Light sources produce photons from another energy source, such as heat, chemical reactions, or conversion...
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    Diffraction grating effects are sometimes seen in meteorology. Diffraction coronas are colorful rings surrounding a source of light, such as the sun. These...
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