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core +‎ shine

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coreshine (uncountable)

  1. (astronomy) infrared light scattered by unusually large grains of dust in the denser core regions of molecular clouds
    • 2015, J. Steinacker, M. Andersen, W.-F. Thi, R. Paladini, M. Juvela, A. Bacmann, V.-M. Pelkonen, L. Pagani, C. Lefèvre, Th. Henning, A. Noriega-Crespo, “Grain size limits derived from 3.6 μm and 4.5 μm coreshine”, in arXiv[1]:
      In the case of Rho Oph 9, we were unable to reliably disentangle the coreshine emission from background variations and the strong local PAH emission.

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