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eclipse2 CONSTRUCTSCelestial eclipsePASACHOFF · SHADOW CONEEclipse periodDOERMANN · NO INFECTIVITY

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1939Eclipse period2009Celestial eclipse
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Astronomy

the darkening when one celestial body passes into another's shadow or in front of it, cutting off light.

The darkening that occurs when one celestial body passes into the shadow of another or moves in front of it, cutting off light we would otherwise see: in a solar eclipse the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun and blocks the Sun's disc, and in a lunar eclipse the Moon passes into the Earth's shadow. Pasachoff's 2009 Solar eclipses as an astrophysical laboratory described how a total solar eclipse briefly hides the bright disc and reveals the faint corona for study. The referent is a geometric alignment of bodies seen from a particular vantage, timed to the minute by the moments of contact, and it has nothing to do with a duck's moulted feathers or a virus hidden inside an infected cell.[1]

Unit
A body's passage into another's shadow or across its face, seen from a given vantage
Recovery means
The eclipse ends at egress, when the occulting body moves aside and the hidden light returns
Measured by
Predicted by celestial mechanics and timed by the contact moments of ingress, totality or maximum, and egress, observed from the ground or from space

Virology

the interval right after a cell is infected when no infectious virus can be recovered from it.

The interval right after a cell is infected during which no infectious virus can be recovered from it, because the incoming particle has been taken apart and its progeny are still being assembled and have not yet matured. Doermann's 1952 The intracellular growth of bacteriophages measured this directly by lysing infected bacteria at intervals and finding a stretch with no infectious phage inside, extending the one-step growth picture that Ellis and Delbruck's 1939 The growth of bacteriophage had established. The referent is a phase of the viral replication cycle defined by the absence of recoverable infectivity, timed in minutes for phages, and it is not a shadow cast in the sky or a coat of dull feathers.[2][3]

Unit
An interval within one infection cycle, in minutes for phages, during which the cell yields no infectious virus
Recovery means
It ends when the first mature, infectious virions are assembled inside the cell, ahead of their release
Measured by
Measured by artificially lysing infected cells at successive times and assaying for infectious particles, within a one-step growth experiment

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References

  1. Pasachoff, J. M. (2009). Solar eclipses as an astrophysical laboratory. Nature, 459(7248), 789–795. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07987
  2. Doermann, A. H. (1952). The intracellular growth of bacteriophages. Journal of General Physiology, 35(4), 645–656. https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.35.4.645
  3. Ellis, E. L., & Delbrück, M. (1939). The growth of bacteriophage. Journal of General Physiology, 22(3), 365–384. https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.22.3.365

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