English Explanatory Dictionary

Hellings and Downs curve

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A graph of the expected correlation of timing effects on pulsars due to cosmological gravitational waves, as a function of angle of separation of the pulsars.

Word forms

Hellings and Downs curve Hellings and Downs curves Hellings-Downs curve

Etymology

Named after R.W. Hellings and G.S. Downs, who first calculated it.

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