collimated
Verb
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Verb
- Simple past tense and past participle of collimate
collimated
- (physics, of a light beam) Composed of rays that are parallel, thus having a wavefront that is planar.
- 1984, Charles J. Lada, Energetic Outflows, Winds and Jets around Young Stars, M. F. Kessler, J. P. Phillips (editors), Galactic and Extragalactic Infrared Spectroscopy, page 266 ↗,
- Low-mass objects have much more collimated flows than high mass sources.
- 2008 May, A. M. Soderberg, et al., An extremely luminous X-ray outburst at the birth of a supernova ↗, Accepted draft, page 3,
- Wolf-Rayet stars are also argued9 to give rise to gamma-ray bursts, a related but rare class of explosions characterized by highly-collimated relativistic jets.
- 2011, R. Bachiller, M. Tafalla, Bipolar Molecular Outflows, Charles J. Lada, N.D. Kylafis (editors), The Origin of Stars and Planetary Systems, page 240 ↗,
- Although the most collimated outflows look very much jet-like at the highest velocities, their behavior is much more classical at lower speeds.
- 2012, Kurt Demaagd, Anthony Oliver, Nathan Oostendorp, Katherine Scott, Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV: The Simple Way to Make Technology See, page 222 ↗,
- Closing the aperture results in more collimated light, as only light traveling in the right direction can make it through the smaller opening.
- 1984, Charles J. Lada, Energetic Outflows, Winds and Jets around Young Stars, M. F. Kessler, J. P. Phillips (editors), Galactic and Extragalactic Infrared Spectroscopy, page 266 ↗,
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