How to Use light curve in a Sentence

light curve

noun

• Such a plot is called a light curve.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2026
• The peak in each light curve would be tagged with a precise time.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2013
• Not all of the light curves can be explained just yet, and don’t relate to clouds or temperature.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 5 Mar. 2025
• The multi-wavelength light curves, like stock market graphs for a star's brightness, showed a clear sequence.
  — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 6 Feb. 2026
• The light curve created by Earth passing in front of the sun might set off an alien invasion.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2016
• Its light curve—how its brightness changes over time—peaked after just over 13 days and then began a long slow decline.
  — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 10 Nov. 2022
• Tracking how a star's light changes as a planet moves across its face from our position here on Earth helps build a light curve.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• But could that light curve have instead been produced by a more rounded object with a nonuniform albedo?
  — Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2021
• The government also published the meteor’s light curve, a graph of its brightness over time.
  — Seth Fletcher, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• The most significant source of data came from ground telescopes all over the world that measured both asteroids’ light curve.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2024
• No conceivable planetary system could produce such an extreme and variable light curve.
  — Kimberly Cartier, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• However, when searching for exocomets, astronomers don't look for symmetrical dips in the light curve.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2019
• That model may produce a light curve (how the light from the system changes over time) or some other data that scientists can compare to observations.
  — Lauren Sgro, Discover Magazine, 6 Sep. 2018
• Therefore, secondary dips in light curves can be used to determine how active the star is, which direction it is tilted, and the angle of the transiting planet's orbit.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 27 Aug. 2025
• Barentsen also included a preliminary graph of the light curve, the way the star darkened as planets passed across it, which shows hints of at least six planets (as well as star spots) visible in the data.
  — Sarah Lewin Frasier, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2017
• Astronomers posited that this could be caused by an orbiting exomoon that sometimes trails and sometimes leads the planet itself during their mutual transit, changing the light curve’s shape.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2026
• And bumps in the early light curve of a supernova could indicate the presence of a close companion – a nearby star, brown dwarf or giant planet – that has become caught up in the conflagration.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• Another possibility is that Ultima Thule is surrounded by dust or small moons that even out its light curve, but this explanation has problems too.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 21 Dec. 2018
• The result was hundreds of highly detailed light curves showing how each wavelength of infrared light changed in brightness as SIMP 0136 rotated.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 Mar. 2025
• With the exoplanet Kepler-1625b, there were some asymmetries, however—odd bumps in its associated light curve that were difficult to explain.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2026
• In December 2017 scientists reported ‘Oumuamua's light curve.
  — David Jewitt, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
• In her circa 1928 photograph of an empty concrete amphitheater at Mills College, for instance, bands of dark and light curve outward like ripples of water from a pebble dropped in a pond, filling the frame.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
• The recent bolide agreement, granting NASA access to light curve data that will help scientists analyze the physical properties of plunging fireballs, is one step in that direction.
  — Joey Roulette, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2022
• In contrast to ‘Oumuamua, 2I/Borisov displays no extreme light curve, and its nongravitational motion is simply a consequence of asymmetric outgassing as ice comes off its surface, just as in solar system comets.
  — David Jewitt, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2020
• The research team, led by Yilen Gómez Maqueo Chew of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, detected a transit signal in the light curve of the star TOI-1080, an inactive M4V-type red dwarf.
  — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 16 Mar. 2026