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Atmospheric windows in the infrared. The M band is the transmission window centred on 4.7 micrometres

In infrared astronomy, the M band is an atmospheric transmission window centered on 4.8 micrometres (in the mid-infrared).

References

  1. Glass, I. S., ed. (1999), "Photometry", Handbook of Infrared Astronomy, Cambridge Observing Handbooks for Research Astronomers, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 44–72, doi:10.1017/CBO9780511564949.004, ISBN 978-0-521-63311-6, retrieved 2024-07-16
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