Research group claims first detection of water dimmers in atmospheric conditions
Monday, March 11, 2013 - 10:30
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —A team of physicists from Russia's Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, has built an exceptionally sensitive spectrometer that they claim, is the first to measure water dimmers in atmospheric conditions. In their paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the team describes how they built their spectrometer and then used it to detect, for the first time ever, water dimmers under natural atmospheric conditions.