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  2. Redshift - Wikipedia

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    The terms derive from the colours red and blue which form the extremes of the visible light spectrum. The main causes of electromagnetic redshift in astronomy and cosmology are the relative motions of radiation sources, which give rise to the relativistic Doppler effect , and gravitational potentials, which gravitationally redshift escaping ...

  3. Gravitational redshift - Wikipedia

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    In physics and general relativity, gravitational redshift (known as Einstein shift in older literature) [1] [2] is the phenomenon that electromagnetic waves or photons travelling out of a gravitational well lose energy. This loss of energy corresponds to a decrease in the wave frequency and increase in the wavelength, known more generally as a ...

  4. Fluorescence - Wikipedia

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    Current research suspects that this red fluorescence is used for private communication between members of the same species. [30] [33] [39] Due to the prominence of blue light at ocean depths, red light and light of longer wavelengths are muddled, and many predatory reef fish have little to no sensitivity for light at these wavelengths. Fish ...

  5. Bathochromic shift - Wikipedia

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    In spectroscopy, bathochromic shift (from Greek βαθύς (bathys) 'deep' and χρῶμα (chrōma) 'color'; hence less common alternate spelling "bathychromic") is a change of spectral band position in the absorption, reflectance, transmittance, or emission spectrum of a molecule to a longer wavelength (lower frequency). [1]

  6. Emission spectrum - Wikipedia

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    A spectroscope or a spectrometer is an instrument which is used for separating the components of light, which have different wavelengths. The spectrum appears in a series of lines called the line spectrum. This line spectrum is called an atomic spectrum when it originates from an atom in elemental form. Each element has a different atomic spectrum.

  7. Photon upconversion - Wikipedia

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    Example of normal Stokes emission through fluorescence (left, red) and anti-Stokes emission (right, blue) through sensitized triplet-triplet annihilation based photon upconversion, samples excited with green light. Upconversion fluorescence. Optical fiber that contains infrared light shines with a blue color in the dark

  8. Auxochrome - Wikipedia

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    An auxochrome is known as a functional group that produces a bathochromic shift, also known as red shift because it increases the wavelength of absorption, therefore moving closer to infrared light. Woodward−Fieser rules estimate the shift in wavelength of maximum absorption for several auxochromes attached to a conjugated system in an ...

  9. Hypsochromic shift - Wikipedia

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    Because the blue color in the visible spectrum has a shorter wavelength than most other colors, this effect is also commonly called a blue shift. [1] It should not be confused with a bathochromic shift, which is the opposite process – the molecule's spectra are changed to a longer wavelength (lower frequency).