How to Use spectrograph in a Sentence

spectrograph

noun
  • The tempo, the mood, the spectrograph, the acoustics, the time of day?
    IEEE Spectrum, 12 Oct. 2020
  • The fibers send light from the object to the spectrograph.
    Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2019
  • And of course the scientists would all go and set up telescopes and spectrographs.
    Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2015
  • The spectrograph for lead [right] dropped from a high level in the month before death, a clue that his routine changed during that time.
    IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The spectrograph detected telltale signs of water vapor in the form of clouds and haze.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • Backlit ghosts don’t show up in my scope, and the sunset had seemed to follow me and my spectrograph to every new angle.
    Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • My daughter, Starling, looked so small in my viewfinder, struggling under the weight of her spectrograph.
    Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • These fibers carry the light from each galaxy into a spectrograph, which spreads out the light into a spectrum showing the amount of light given off at each wavelength.
    Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2019
  • Kate has since seen the bright blue spectrographs showing gaps in conversation—where the pauses occur.
    Michael Erard, Quartz, 3 Sep. 2019
  • This device has a camera and a spectrograph, and observes a kind of light from distant galaxies, coalescing stars, comets and objects in the Kuiper Belt.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2023
  • These spectrographs are designed to pick up wobbles as slight as 10 centimeters per second.
    Corey S. Powell, Scientific American, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Optical fibers manually attached to each hole caught each galaxy's light and fed it to a spectrograph.
    Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Integral Field Unit: A combined camera and spectrograph captures an image, along with spectra for each pixel, revealing how the light varies across the field of view.
    Jen Christiansen, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The Webb telescope, which just spotted its first exoplanet, will prove useful in this endeavor, thanks to its near-infrared spectrograph.
    WIRED, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Imaging with a spectrograph provided evidence of water at the Martian surface in the region, reinforcing the idea that this could be ice.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2018
  • The second key ability provided by a spectrograph is the tracking of the motion materials.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2022
  • And in recent decades, big questions about the structure and composition of the universe have called for specialized cameras and spectrographs capable of surveying large patches of the sky.
    Quanta Magazine, 18 Apr. 2019
  • Each of those boxes sends light to a spectrograph, which breaks the light apart by wavelength to get information such as composition and motion, including speed and direction.
    Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2019
  • The mission is now slated for a 2025 launch, but, Sunyaev says, some collaborators, including a German team supplying a spectrograph, have dropped out.
    Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 15 July 2019
  • The first step is to measure a target galaxy’s atomic emission and absorption chemical spectra using a spectrograph.
    Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • One of them, called MUSE, will launch a novel spectrograph—a sensor that allows scientists to carefully analyze the properties of light generated by the sun—with the ability to take longer exposures over a wider field of view.
    Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The instrument weighs 80 pounds, has an imaging spectrograph that measures light wavelength intensity.
    Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Another light will then appear far overhead as the second stage of the Black Brant rocket fires, carrying an ultraviolet spectrograph 160 miles above northern Alaska.
    Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2020
  • The spectrograph for arsenic [left] shows an insignificantly elevated level in the Somerton Man.
    IEEE Spectrum, 20 Mar. 2023
  • A colorful projection of a digital spectrograph — a standard imaging tool that measures frequency analysis — was cast onto the gallery’s floor.
    Reena Jana, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2001
  • So, a relativistic camera would naturally serve as a spectrograph, allowing researchers to look at an intrinsically redder band of light.
    Scientific American, 3 July 2018
  • Among the spacecraft's instruments is an ultraviolet spectrograph, or UVS, that images Jupiter's auroras in ultraviolet light.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The new spectrograph is capable of observing 5,000 targets simultaneously and is positioned on a telescope that has a primary mirror with a diameter approximately twice that of the Sloan telescope’s.
    Kyle Dawson, Scientific American, 1 May 2021
  • Determining the photochemical reactions happening in a faraway atmosphere takes an advanced and extremely fine-tuned telescope fit with a spectrograph.
    Meghan Herbst, Wired, 4 Mar. 2021
  • This dedicated spectrograph can capture 100 spectra simultaneously with its micro shutter array.
    Jen Christiansen, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2022

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