How to Use light curve in a Sentence

light curve

noun

• Its light curve—how its brightness changes over time—peaked after just over 13 days and then began a long slow decline.
  — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 10 Nov. 2022
• Based on their almost-identical light curves, these worlds would all be nearly the same size: slightly bigger than Earth.
  — Adam Mann, Scientific American, 3 July 2019
• But could that light curve have instead been produced by a more rounded object with a nonuniform albedo?
  — Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2021
• That model may produce a light curve (how the light from the system changes over time) or some other data that scientists can compare to observations.
  — Lauren Sgro, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2018
• Barentsen also included a preliminary graph of the light curve, the way the star darkened as planets passed across it, which shows hints of at least six planets (as well as star spots) visible in the data.
  — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2017
• In her circa 1928 photograph of an empty concrete amphitheater at Mills College, for instance, bands of dark and light curve outward like ripples of water from a pebble dropped in a pond, filling the frame.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
• No conceivable planetary system could produce such an extreme and variable light curve.
  — Kimberly Cartier, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• The recent bolide agreement, granting NASA access to light curve data that will help scientists analyze the physical properties of plunging fireballs, is one step in that direction.
  — Joey Roulette, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2022
• Another possibility is that Ultima Thule is surrounded by dust or small moons that even out its light curve, but this explanation has problems too.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2018
• In contrast to ‘Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov displays no extreme light curve, and its nongravitational motion is simply a consequence of asymmetric outgassing as ice comes off its surface, just as in solar system comets.
  — David Jewitt, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
• In December 2017 scientists reported ‘Oumuamua's light curve.
  — David Jewitt, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020

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