coreshine

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noun

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

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Meanings

nouncoreshine (uncountable)
  1. uncountableastronomyinfrared 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 μm coreshine”, in arXiv

Origin

From core + shine.

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