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coreshine

coreshine noun: infrared light scattered by unusually large grains of dust in the denser core regions of molecular clouds.

Noun

coreshine (uncountable)

  1. infrared light scattered by unusually large grains of dust in the denser core regions of molecular clouds
    • In the case of Rho Oph 9, we were unable to reliably disentangle the coreshine emission from background variations and the strong local PAH emission.2015, J. Steinacker, M. Andersen, W.-F. Thi, R. Paladini, M. Juvela, A. Bacmann, V.-M. Pelkonen, L. Pagani, C. Lefèvre, Th. Henning, A. Noriega-Crespo, “Grain size limits derived from 3.6 μm and 4.5...

Origin of coreshine

From core + shine.

Questions about coreshine

What does coreshine mean?
Coreshine means infrared light scattered by unusually large grains of dust in the denser core regions of molecular clouds.
What part of speech is coreshine?
Coreshine is a noun.

Words near coreshine in the dictionary

  1. cores
  2. coresearcher
  3. coresearchers
  4. coreset
  5. coresets
  6. coreshine
  7. coreside
  8. coresidence
  9. coresidences
  10. coresident
  11. coresidential

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