spectrograph
Americannoun
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a spectroscope for photographing or producing a representation of a spectrum.
noun
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A photograph or computer image of a spectrum produced by a spectroscope.
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Also called spectrogram
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See spectroscope
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JWST's high resolution spectrograph allows scientists to examine exoplanet light without interference from molecules in Earth's atmosphere.
From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026
The researchers utilized an astronomical spectrograph that was put together by a team of scientists led by Mahadevan.
From Salon • Nov. 30, 2023
The team had wanted to use an array of thousands of tiny switchable mirrors to deflect light from individual galaxies into a light-splitting spectrograph, gathering spectra from many galaxies at once.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 21, 2023
It’s packaged together with the NIRISS, which has a camera and a spectrograph to take images and spectra in the near-infrared range.
From Scientific American • Dec. 1, 2022
That gave him not only oversight of Fermi’s reactor research at Columbia, for which the committee made a six-month appropriation of $340,000, but also jurisdiction over the spectrograph and plutonium projects at Lawrence’s Rad Lab.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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