Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hellings and downs curve

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English

Syllables: hellings and -down-s curve
IPA

35

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

3

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A graph of the expected correlation of timing effects on pulsars due to cosmological gravitational waves, as a function of angle of separation of the pulsars.

Etymology

Named after R.W. Hellings and G.S. Downs, who first calculated it.

Inflected Forms

Hellings and Downs curves (plural) Hellings-Downs curve (alternative)

Questions

What does hellings and downs curve mean?: A graph of the expected correlation of timing effects on pulsars due to cosmological gravitational waves, as a function of angle of separation of the pulsars.
Where does hellings and downs curve come from?: Named after R.W. Hellings and G.S. Downs, who first calculated it.

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