Griswold1982 said:I've been reading a few journal entries on Arxiv.org, and one of the ones that continues to show up in astrophysics and astronomy journals is i775 and/or z850. There are several others, a few of which I have been able to find definitions for. Would anyone know what these mean, and for discussion purposes, are there any others that anyone has trouble with?
matt.o said:They look like names of colour filters for imaging.
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