{"id":618371,"date":"2019-05-24T08:45:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=618371"},"modified":"2019-05-24T08:45:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:45:53","slug":"new-catalogue-of-12000-x-ray-spectral-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=618371","title":{"rendered":"New catalogue of 12,000 X-ray spectral lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>X-ray sources in the sky radiate &#8220;bar codes&#8221; revealing their properties. These bar codes consist of narrow peaks and troughs within the source&#8217;s spectrum. The RGS instrument on the satellite XMM-Newton was built to find these bars\u2014or spectral lines. Astronomer Junjie Mao and his colleagues at SRON and ESA have now created a catalogue filled with 12,000 X-ray lines, which astronomers can use to conduct large-scale surveys among the stellar population. They have reported its development in Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-catalogue-x-ray-spectral-lines.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">New catalogue of 12,000 X-ray spectral lines<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X-ray sources in the sky radiate &#8220;bar codes&#8221; revealing their properties. These bar codes consist of narrow peaks and troughs within the source&#8217;s spectrum. The RGS instrument on the satellite&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}