the Gunn–Peterson trough is a feature of the spectra of quasars due to the presence of neutral hydrogen in the Intergalactic medium (IGM). The trough is...
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Gunn-Peterson trough (though they may show the Lyman-alpha forest), while quasars emitting light prior to reionization will feature a Gunn-Peterson trough...
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presence of dark matter in galaxies, and predicted the existence of a Gunn–Peterson trough in the spectra of distant quasars. Cosmology may look like a science...
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should be absorbed by the neutral hydrogen. The effect, called the Gunn–Peterson trough, should yield zero emission at wavelengths shorter than 1216 angstroms...
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reionization. The oldest known quasars (z = 6)[needs update] display a Gunn–Peterson trough and have absorption regions in front of them indicating that the...
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hydrogen in the intergalactic medium that the forest turns into a Gunn–Peterson trough. This shows the end of the reionization of the universe. The Lyman-alpha...
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of the comet. Atomic and molecular astrophysics Emission spectrum Gunn-Peterson trough Lyman-alpha forest Photometry (astronomy) Prism Spectrometer Telluric...
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the radius of a region ionized by a type O-B star. Reionization Gunn–Peterson trough Strömgren, Bengt (1939). "The Physical State of Interstellar Hydrogen"...
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absorption of certain wavelengths of light by neutral hydrogen creating Gunn–Peterson troughs. The resulting ionized gas (especially free electrons) in the intergalactic...
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James E. Gunn – Eugene Higgins Professor of Astronomy, leader of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and predicted the eponymous Gunn–Peterson trough Joseph Henry...
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