Sentences with phrase «corot observing runs»

And for liberals observing this running Freudian drama, it's hard not to root for the older guy.

During the observing run, which ended 25 August, Virgo ran with between a quarter to a half the sensitivity of LIGO, Mours says.

Hobbled Virgo detector will support its U.S. counterpart for the final weeks of its observing run

This encore observing run was largely ceremonial for the man who pioneered the worldwide collaborative effort known as SETI — the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

The technique that the astronomers of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) use to observe black holes is called Very Long Baseline Interferometry, or VLBI, but it might as well be called Extremely Delayed Gratification Astronomy: it can take weeks or months after an observing run to find out whether the telescope array actually saw anything.

Two other masts hold anemometers, barometers, and thermometers that need no daily energy boost; these instruments stay in place throughout the two - week observing run.

When the second observing run begins, probably in July, the detectors should be 30 or 40 per cent more sensitive, allowing LIGO to hear events in at least twice as many galaxies.

«Future LIGO observing runs will tell us much more about the universe's population of black holes, and it won't be long before we'll know if the scenario I outline is either supported or ruled out,» Kashlinsky said.

Managing real - time analyses sometimes means being woken up in the middle of the night to deal with new signals, which is exhausting when it extends over the many months of an observing run, Messick says.

With the next observing run planned for late 2018, we can expect such detections weekly or even more often,» says David Shoemaker, a physicist at the Masschusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and spokesperson for the LIGO collaboration.

A recent analysis of an 11 - day observing run in 2009, however, failed to identify any such dark particles, casting doubt on two competing groups» prior claims of possible dark matter signals.

«With the next observing run planned for fall 2018 we can expect such detections weekly or even more often.»

«Again, without the public support for this dedicated observing run, we would not have this large amount of data.»

In our present study, we used data from the first three longer CoRoT observing runs, on which a significant part of the candidate follow - up was completed, i.e. the «Initial Run» IRa01 (55 days in the anticenter direction) and the first two «Long Runs», lasting about 150 days each, which targeted the center and the anticenter (LRc01 and LRa01, respectively).

Various press accounts reported odds anywhere from 1 - in - 27 million to 1 - in - 650 million that the observed run of global temperature records (9 of the 10 warmest years and 13 of the 15 warmest years each having had occurred since 2000) might have resulted from chance alone, i.e. without any assistance from human - caused global warming.

Detection results are also described in more detail by Carpano et al. (2009) for the IRa01 observing run data and by Cabrera et al. (2009) for the LRc01 data, descriptions of the later runs being in preparation.

These candidates are likely targets for future observing runs at Keck Observatory for confirmation.

Enjoy this rebroadcast of a rare observing run at the W. M. Keck Observatory, home of the two largest and most scientifically productive telescopes on Earth.

Radial velocity observations from observing runs in 2000 and 2004 reveal a periodic variation of 3.30 ± 0.02 d, which is consistent with the previously determined value of 3.3125 ± 0.0002 d.

Scientists searching for gravitational waves have confirmed yet another detection from their fruitful observing run earlier this year.

Scientists expect to launch a new observing run in fall 2018, though there will be occasional test runs during which detections may occur.

In the past days as part of Project EDEN I had the opportunity to participate in my first ever observing run.

I was able to do this by the effort in no - small - part of the graduate student also on the observing run, Alex Bixel.

From the results of a first observing run, we show that the use of matched filtering improves our adaptive optics system performance, with increases in on - sky H - band Strehl measured up to about a factor of 1.1 with respect to a conventional centre of gravity approach.

«With the next observing run planned for Fall 2018 we can expect such detections weekly or even more often.»

«Ever mindful, he always involved students and postdocs in his observing runs at Keck.»

Due to the availability of data from three observing runs separated by ~ 10 and 1 month timescales, we are able to demonstrate clear evidence for evolution of the photometric amplitudes, and hence spot patterns, over the 10 month gap, although we are not able to constrain the timescales for these effects in detail due to limitations imposed by the large gaps in our sampling, preventing use of the phase information.

«While we've seen some signals over some months of observing, we think that that rate will significantly increase in our next observing run to perhaps a signal a week or more.»

Several other detections were made in the fall 2015 observing run and many more are expected in future observing runs as the sensitivity of Advanced LIGO is increased even further.

According to him, a lot of money is required for each observing run to cover travel, lodging, and equipment.

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He traveled for more than eighteen hours across the country of Argentina to join a Disk Deective observing run.

I gained some valuable practical experience for future observing runs, and we got what should be some quite good science out of the observations.

The fact that Advanced LIGO detected an event even before the start of its first official observing run is certainly promising!

The LIGO team estimates that the volume the detectors can probe will still increase by at least a factor of ~ 10 as the observing runs become more sensitive and of longer duration.

Though the LIGO and Virgo detectors have been on hiatus since last fall (the start of a year - long break between observing runs O2 and O3), the world of astrophysics continues to be bombarded with new GW results informed by O1 and O2 data.

The first official observing run of Advanced LIGO began 18 September 2015, but the instruments were up and running in «engineering mode» several weeks before that.

During the opening hours the public is invited to observe the run - throughs and rehearsals to learn more about the content and technical aspects of the emerging installation.

The simplest way to see this is to calculate the probability of observing a run of 8 heads randomly versus the probability of seeing a run of 8 heads in a long series of random throws.

Not exact matches

«They see a world that doesn't exist yet today,» observes Mike Kirkup, a 10 - year BlackBerry veteran who runs Velocity, an accelerator at the University of Waterloo.

Over the last two decades of building and running businesses, and the last couple of years working full time with dozens of startup founders and CEOs on their strategies and funding plans in my consultancy business, I have observed that there are a common set of reasons that startups struggle and fail, and a consistent set of factors that make startup companies successful.

«After an earlier run at settling this case failed, the court observed that some cases just need to be tried,» Grewal wrote.

(«Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for President as a Republican,» Meyers observed as Trump glowered in the audience.

Physicists think it must be a really heavy particle that requires a really powerful collision (that's why we didn't see it in the first LHC run) and that it weakly interacts with other particles (which is why we haven't been able to observe it).

For several weeks, I picked him up every Friday after school to sit in my office and observe how I ran my business.

«Often vineyard owners just don't have enough money to keep their operations running long enough,» observes Professor Stephen Mutkoski, a wine expert at Cornell University.

For the past 18 years, Peace Over Violence has run its Denim Day campaign on a Wednesday in April to observe Sexual Violence Awareness Month.

If you're trying to win the Ironman Triathlon where contestants must first swim 3.86 kilometers, then bike 180.25 kilometers followed by a 42.20 kilometer run, here are some of the key ingredients you need: A long - term committed outlook, years of consistent and serious training, years of studying and observing other Ironman participants, a mentor, sound nutrition, physical & mental fitness and sleep.

What you're observing is pure speculative psychology on a glorious run through the poppy fields.

What we actually observed prior to QEternity was a market decline of just 8 %, and a subsequent recovery that has now run about 11 %.