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n. (form of attributive form gamma ray English)
Usage examples of "gamma-ray".
Studying gamma-ray bursters was now not merely international but interplanetary, if one counted the many robot observers orbiting in the solar system.
Kingsley had used it with speed and ingenuity decades before, explaining gamma-ray bursters quite handily with a little imagination and detailed calculations.
BUT THE GAMMA-RAY SHOWER IS ONLY THE PRECURSOR TO THE COSMIC RAY CASCADES, WHICH CAN LAST MONTHS.
For instance, a black hole as light as a small asteroid would emit about as much radiation as a million-megaton hydrogen bomb, with radiation concentrated in the gamma-ray part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Everything meaningful about an individual citizen could be packed into less than an exabyte, and sent as a gamma-ray burst a few milliseconds long.
It was impossible to judge their record on these ancient bursts, predating even flesher gamma-ray astronomy, but if it turned out that they'd correctly anticipated the time of Lac G-1's collision, they'd have shown themselves to be extraordinarily trustworthy forecasters.
The image zoomed back in rapidly, just in time to show a gamma-ray burst at 2000 BP: Lac G-1.
Mazets and colleagues of the Ioffe Institute, Leningrad - who observed this source with the gamma-ray burst detector aboard the Venera 11 and 12 spacecraft on their way to land on Venus - argue that what is being seen is a flaring pulsar only a few hundred light-years away.
This triggered a gamma-ray burst from the polis to a probe with an eight-M orbit.
Without a close-by gamma-ray burst, it was possible that star systems like the Solar System could never have formed.
But the other sensors showed no evidence of a solar flare and, once he though about it, Fuchs wondered if a gamma-ray burst would not have registered on the optical receiver.
You've managed to expand them up through twenty orders of magnitude to make them big enough to pass gamma-ray photons.
We've surreptitiously flown gamma-ray detectors on weather balloons.
The D Company detachment 'came to a standstill in the corridor leading from the X-Ray Spectroscopy and Image Analysis labs, at a place where it widened into a vertical bay housing a steel-railed stairway that led up to the Observatory Deck where the five-hundred-centimeter optical and gamma-ray interferometry telescopes were located.