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Robert Lambourne 1997 Phys. Educ. 32 34 doi:10.1088/0031-9120/32/1/017

The Doppler effect in astronomy

Robert Lambourne

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SPACE PHYSICS

Most of our knowledge of the properties of stars and galaxies has been obtained using the Doppler effect. This article explains how it can tell us about solar oscillations, the rotation of the Milky Way, the expansion of the Universe and much more.


PACS

96.60.Ly Oscillations and waves; helioseismology

98.80.-k Cosmology

98.35.-a Characteristics and properties of the Milky Way galaxy

01.50.-i Educational aids

96.60.Na Chromosphere and chromosphere–corona transition; spicules

Subjects

Education and communication

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 1 (January 1997)



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