An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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The mathematical form of the way an instrument affects the input signal.

→ instrumental; → response; → function.

In a charge-coupled device, the detection of charge collected by the transport register rather than by the image-sensing elements.

→ peripheral; → response.

Any → reaction of a → system to an external → stimulus. See also:
→ instrumental response function, → peripheral response, → response curve, → response time, → spectral response.

From L. responsum "answer," noun use of neuter p.p. of respondere "answer to, promise in return," from → re- "back" + spondere "to pledge."

Pâsox "answer, response;" Mid.Pers. pâssox "answer, reply;" loaned in Arm. patasxani "answer;" Proto-Iranian *pati-sanh-, from *pati- "agaist, back, opposite to, toward, face to face, in front of," → anti-, + *sanh- "to declare, say;" Mod.Pers. soxan "speech, utterance, word," → speech.

A curve graphically representing the magnitude of the → response of a → detector to → radiation, usually as a function of → wavelength.

→ response; → curve.

The time between an occurrence and a reaction produced by the occurrence.

→ response; → time.

Domain of the electromagnetic spectrum over which a detector is sensitive. Same as spectral sensitivity.

→ spectral; → response.