Preferred Name

Extinction

Definitions

Dimming of light by an intervening medium (the Earth's atmosphere or the interstellar medium). It is usually due to both scattering and absorption.

ID

http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/uat#extinction

broader

http://www.ivoa.net/rdf/uat#astronomical-optics

definition

Dimming of light by an intervening medium (the Earth's atmosphere or the interstellar medium). It is usually due to both scattering and absorption.

exactMatch

http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/505

prefLabel

Extinction

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