microwave
(electromagnetic radiation, frequency 300 MHz to 300 GHz)
Microwave is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelength
in the range of 1 mm to 1 meter (frequency 300 MHz to 300 GHz).
It comprises the shortest radio waves, adjacent to infrared.
The terms microwave astronomy and microwave radio astronomy
are occasionally used and the more common term, millimeter astronomy
spans the border between microwave and infrared.
The atmosphere blocks much microwave EMR from
reaching Earth, and space observatories have been
used. However, the long-wavelength end of microwave
is within the radio atmospheric window, multiple narrow windows allow
some shorter microwaves through, and high-altitude observatories
allow microwave telescopes to sense more signal.
Some microwave sources, i.e., the subjects of microwave astronomy:
Some mechanisms by which microwave is produced:
(EMR,radio,spectrum,band)
Further reading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave
WaveL | Freq | Photon Energy | | |
1mm | 300GHz | 1.3meV | begin | microwave |
1m | 300MHz | 1.3μeV | end | microwave |
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Referenced by pages:
Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT)
anomalous microwave emission (AME)
Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI)
aperture synthesis
Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX)
ARCADE
Atacama Desert
black hole shadow
black-body radiation
carbon (C)
C-BASS
Cosmic Background Imager (CBI)
cosmic background radiation (CBR)
Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST)
Cosmic Lens All-sky Survey (CLASS)
cosmic microwave background (CMB)
CMB anisotropies
Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
COSMOSOMAS
DASI
emissivity
fast radio burst (FRB)
frequency
high frequency (HF)
interferometer
Juno
Jupiter
KID
low frequency radio astronomy
Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT)
LSPE-STRIP
maser
millimeter astronomy
NRAO VLA Sky Survey (NVSS)
optical interferometer
Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI)
Planck
Psyche
precipitable water vapor (PWV)
radiation belt
radiometer
rare designator prefixes
RMS astronomy
Rosetta
radio source (RS)
Submillimeter Telescope (SMT)
SPIDER
spinning dust emission
South Pole Telescope (SPT)
Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Array (SZA)
thermal bremsstrahlung
21-cm line
TolTEC
water lines
wavelength
Wien's displacement law
Yuan-Tseh Lee Array (YTLA)
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