Lyman continuum photons
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lyman-continuum-photons-272-16914549
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Lyman continuum photons
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Lyman continuum photons, shortened to Ly continuum photons or Lyc photons, are the photons emitted from stars or active galactic nuclei at photon energies above the Lyman limit. Hydrogen is ionized by absorbing LyC. Working from Victor Schumann's discovery of ultraviolet light, from 1906 to 1914, Theodore Lyman observed that atomic hydrogen absorbs light only at specific frequencies and the Lyman series is thus named after him. All the wavelengths in the Lyman series are in the ultraviolet band.
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Photons emitted from stars at photon energies above the Lyman limit
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman_continuum_photons
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2024-03-11T00:48:08Z
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