Afterglow

Afterglow denotes:

• The slowly diminishing glow as a hot, glowing solid cools down
• Light emitted upon burning up a reentrant missile into the Earth's atmosphere
• the tail-like reverberating light trail in fireballs (very bright falling stars)
• the "afterglow" of a gamma-ray burst in the frequency range of X-ray and UV radiation
• the night sky glow (airglow) in the ionosphere
• the cooling time for strong projection or incandescent lamps
• the short delay in the sequence of images for screens
• various phenomena of luminescence and phosphorescence .
• Faint afterglow sometimes occurring with LEDs if there are small induced voltages after switching off the power or if the neutral conductor of the power supply line is not completely voltage-free; Such small voltages are not noticeable in incandescent lamps.

See also:

• Glow (disambiguation)
• Afterimage in the eye
• LCD memory effect
• Firefly
• Luminous night clouds

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.