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单词 microlensing
释义
microlensing

Physics
  • The same type of lens effect that occurs in a gravitational lens but on a smaller scale, as caused by individual stars or small dark objects. In microlensing, the bending of light from a more distant star is too small to be detected but a change in the brightness of light from the distant star can be detected.


Astronomy
  • A small-scale gravitational lens effect. In microlensing, the gravitational field of the lensing object is not strong enough to form distinct images of the background source; instead, it causes an apparent brightening of the source. Stars are expected to vary in brightness in a characteristic manner if low-mass stars or planets pass in front of them, and this effect has been detected for stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud and in the central bulge of our Galaxy.


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