Meanings
nounechellette (plural echellettes)
plural echellettes
- natural sciencesA form of echelle grating
We use the HST photometry from WFPC2 and WFC3 images obtained with UV and optical filters, as well as MagE echellette spectrograph data from the Las Campanas Clay 6.5m telescope, in order to construct the observed UV/optical SED of NGC 7252: W3.
2016, I. Cabrera-Ziri, N. Bastian, M. Hilker, B. Davies, F. Schweizer, J. M. D. Kruijssen, A. Mejía-Narváez, F. Niederhofer, T. D. Brandt, M. Rejkuba, G. Bruzual, G. Magris, “Is the Escape Velocity in Star Clusters Linked to Extended Star Formation Histories? Using NGC 7252: W3 as a Test Case”, in arXiv
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