IAU thesaurus in RDF (an update)
Arnold Rots
arots at head.cfa.harvard.edu
Fri Oct 5 08:42:41 PDT 2007
This hit a nerve: the 21 cm hyperfine line of neutral atomic hydrogen
is NOT a recombination line.
- Arnold
Ed Shaya wrote:
> ...
> I don't understand why there are so many TopConcepts, most of which have
> many layers of broader things above it.
> For instance _21_cm_line is a top concept, yet broader is
> radio_recombination_lines, broader is recombination_lines, broader is
> emission_lines, broader is specral_lines. I would perhaps accept
> spectral_lines as a TopConcept.
>
> ...
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