Illustration Of Absorption Systems (IMAGE)

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Illustration Of Absorption Systems

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Calibrator sources have flat radio spectra. Molecules in the intervening gas clouds absorb radio waves at specific frequencies determined by the type of molecules.

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R. Ando (The University of Tokyo), ESO/José Francisco Salgado

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