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FREE RED SHIFT PDF Alan Garner | 192 pages | 07 Oct 2002 | HarperCollins Publishers | 9780007127863 | English | London, United Kingdom Redshift | astronomy | Britannica In physicsredshift is a phenomenon where electromagnetic radiation such as light from an object undergoes an increase Red Shift wavelength. Whether or not the radiation is visible, "redshift" means an increase in wavelength, equivalent to a Red Shift in wave frequency and photon energyin accordance with, respectively, Red Shift wave and quantum theories of light. Neither the emitted nor perceived light is necessarily red; instead, the term refers to Red Shift human perception of longer wavelengths as redwhich is at the section of the visible Red Shift with the longest wavelengths. Examples of Red Shift are a gamma ray perceived as an X-rayor initially visible light perceived Red Shift radio waves. The opposite of a Red Shift is a blueshiftwhere wavelengths shorten and energy increases. However, redshift is a more common term and sometimes blueshift is referred to as negative redshift. Knowledge of redshifts and blueshifts has been used to develop several terrestrial technologies such as Doppler radar and radar guns. A special relativistic redshift formula and its classical approximation can be used to calculate the redshift of a nearby object when spacetime is flat. However, Red Shift many contexts, such as black holes and Big Bang cosmology, redshifts must be calculated using general relativity. There exist other physical processes that can lead to a shift in the frequency of electromagnetic radiation, including scattering and optical effects Red Shift however, the resulting changes are distinguishable from true redshift and are not generally referred to as such see section on physical optics and radiative transfer. Red Shift history of the subject began with the development in Red Shift 19th century of wave mechanics and the exploration of phenomena associated with the Doppler effect. The effect is named after Christian Dopplerwho offered the first known physical explanation for the phenomenon in Only later was Doppler vindicated by verified redshift observations. The first Doppler redshift was described by French physicist Hippolyte Fizeau inwho pointed to the shift in spectral lines seen in stars as being due to the Doppler effect. The effect is sometimes called the "Doppler—Fizeau effect". InBritish astronomer William Huggins was the first to determine the velocity of a star moving away from the Earth by this method. The earliest occurrence of the term red-shift in print in this hyphenated form appears Red Shift be by American astronomer Walter S. Adams inin which he mentions "Two methods of investigating that nature of the nebular red-shift". Beginning Red Shift observations inVesto Slipher discovered that most spiral galaxiesthen mostly thought to be spiral nebulaehad considerable redshifts. Slipher first reports on his measurement in the inaugural volume of the Lowell Observatory Bulletin. Subsequently, Edwin Hubble discovered an approximate relationship between the redshifts of such "nebulae" and the distances Red Shift them with the formulation of his eponymous Hubble's law. The spectrum of light that comes from a source see idealized spectrum illustration top-right can be measured. To determine the redshift, one searches for features in the spectrum such Red Shift absorption linesemission linesor other variations in light intensity. If found, these features can be compared with known features in the spectrum of various chemical compounds found in experiments where that compound is located Red Shift Earth. A very common atomic Red Shift in space is hydrogen. The spectrum of originally featureless light shone through hydrogen will show a signature spectrum specific to hydrogen that has Red Shift at regular intervals. If restricted to absorption lines it would look similar to the illustration top right. If the same pattern of intervals is seen in an observed spectrum from a distant source but occurring at shifted wavelengths, it can be identified as hydrogen too. If the same Red Shift line is identified in both spectra—but at different wavelengths—then the redshift can be calculated using the table below. Determining the redshift of an object in this way requires a frequency or wavelength range. In order to calculate the redshift, one has to know the wavelength of the emitted light in the rest frame of the source: in other words, the wavelength that would be measured by an observer located adjacent to and comoving with the source. Since in astronomical applications this measurement cannot be done directly, because that would require traveling to the distant star of interest, the method using spectral lines described here is used instead. Redshifts cannot be calculated by looking at unidentified features whose rest-frame frequency is unknown, or with a spectrum that is featureless or white noise random fluctuations in a spectrum. Redshift and blueshift may be characterized by the relative difference between the observed and emitted wavelengths or frequency of an object. In astronomy, it is customary to refer to this change using a dimensionless quantity called z. After z is measured, the distinction between redshift and blueshift is simply a matter of whether z is positive or negative. Likewise, gravitational blueshifts are associated with light emitted from a source residing within a weaker gravitational field as observed from within a stronger gravitational field, while gravitational redshifting implies the opposite conditions. In general relativity one can derive several important special-case formulae for redshift in certain special spacetime geometries, as summarized in the following table. In all cases the magnitude of the shift the value Red Shift z is independent of the wavelength. This is true for all electromagnetic waves Red Shift is explained by Red Shift Doppler effect. Consequently, this type of redshift is called the Doppler redshift. In the classical Doppler effect, the frequency of the source is not modified, but the recessional motion causes the illusion of a lower frequency. A more complete treatment of the Doppler redshift requires considering relativistic effects associated with motion of sources close to the speed of light. A complete derivation of the effect can be found in the article on the relativistic Doppler effect. This phenomenon was first observed in a experiment performed Red Shift Herbert E. Ives and G. Stilwell, called the Ives—Stilwell experiment. Since Red Shift Lorentz factor is dependent only on the magnitude of the velocity, this causes the redshift associated with the relativistic correction to be independent of the orientation of the source movement. In contrast, the classical part of the formula is dependent on the projection of the movement of the source into the line-of-sight which yields different results for different orientations. Even when the source is moving towards the observer, if there is a Red Shift component to the motion then there is some speed at which the dilation just cancels the expected blueshift and at higher speed the approaching source will be redshifted. In the earlier part of the twentieth century, Slipher, Wirtz and others made the first measurements of the redshifts and blueshifts of galaxies beyond the Milky Way. The correlation between redshifts and distances is required by all such models that have a metric expansion of space. There is a distinction between a Red Shift in Red Shift context as compared to that witnessed when nearby objects exhibit a local Doppler-effect redshift. Rather than cosmological redshifts being a consequence of the relative velocities that are subject to the laws of special relativity and thus subject to the rule that no two locally separated objects can have relative velocities with respect to each other faster than the speed of lightthe photons instead increase Red Shift wavelength and Red Shift because of a global feature of the spacetime metric through which they are traveling. One interpretation of this effect is the idea that space itself is expanding. The observational consequences of this effect can be derived using the equations from general relativity that describe a homogeneous and isotropic universe. To derive the redshift effect, use the geodesic equation for a light wave, which is. Integrating over the path in both space and time that the Red Shift wave travels yields:. In general, the wavelength of Red Shift is not the same for the two positions and times considered due to the changing properties of the metric. The next crest of the Red Shift wave was emitted at a time. This yields. Using the definition Red Shift redshift provided abovethe equation. In an expanding universe such as the one we inhabit, the scale factor is monotonically increasing as time passes, thus, z is positive and distant galaxies appear redshifted. Using a model of the expansion of the universe, redshift can be related to the age of an observed object, the so-called cosmic time —redshift relation. This density is about three hydrogen atoms per cubic meter of space. If two objects are represented by ball bearings and spacetime by a stretching rubber sheet, the Doppler effect is caused by rolling the balls across the sheet to create peculiar motion. The cosmological redshift occurs when the ball bearings are stuck to the sheet and the sheet is stretched. The redshifts of galaxies include both a Red Shift related to recessional velocity from expansion of the Red Shift, and a component related to peculiar motion Doppler shift. Between the galaxy and the observer, light travels through vast regions of expanding space. As a Red Shift, all wavelengths of the light are stretched by the expansion of space. It is as simple as that Expressing this precisely requires working with the mathematics of the Friedmann— Robertson—Walker metric. If the universe were contracting instead of expanding, we would see distant galaxies blueshifted by an amount proportional to their distance instead of redshifted.