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Hellings and Downs curves

Hellings and Downs curves is the plural of Hellings and Downs curve.

Meaning of Hellings and Downs curve

Noun

Hellings and Downs curve (plural Hellings and Downs curves)

  1. A graph of the expected correlation of timing effects on pulsars due to cosmological gravitational waves, as a function of angle of separation of the pulsars.

Questions about Hellings and Downs curves

What is Hellings and Downs curves the plural of?
Hellings and Downs curves is the plural of Hellings and Downs curve.

Words near Hellings and Downs curves in the dictionary

  1. Hellinger integrals
  2. Hellingers
  3. Hellingly
  4. Hellings
  5. Hellings and Downs curve
  6. Hellings and Downs curves
  7. Hellings-Downs curve
  8. hellion
  9. hellions
  10. hellish
  11. hellishly

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