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- noun astronomy Any of several
charts ormaps , similar to astar chart , that shows the distribution of some particular, measurableparameter (such as microwave radiation, temperature etc)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Abbasi saw an unusual pattern when she looked at a "skymap" of the relative intensity of cosmic rays directed toward the Earth's Southern Hemisphere, with an excess of cosmic rays detected in one part of the sky and a deficit in another.
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This "skymap," generated in 2009 from data collected by the IceCube Neutrino
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Abbasi saw an unusual pattern when she looked at a "skymap" of the relative intensity of cosmic rays directed toward the Earth's Southern Hemisphere, with an excess of cosmic rays detected in one part of the sky and a deficit in another.
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One possible explanation for the irregular pattern is the remains of an exploded supernova, such as the relatively young nearby supernova remnant Vela, whose location corresponds to one of the cosmic ray hotspots in the anisotropy skymap.
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One possible explanation for the irregular pattern is the remains of an exploded supernova, such as the relatively young nearby supernova remnant Vela, whose location corresponds to one of the cosmic ray hotspots in the anisotropy skymap.
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As for the exploded supernova theory, there is a possibility that the irregular pattern is caused by supernova remnant Vela, whose location is the same as one of the cosmic ray hotspots in the anisotropy skymap.
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Abbasi, researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison saw an unusual pattern when looking at a skymap of cosmic rays directed toward the Southern Hemisphere, she thought that this could be more than just background noise.
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