Sentences with phrase «infrared afterglow»

Within an hour, astronomers began training ground - based telescopes on the same patch of sky to study the burst's infrared afterglow.

Infrared afterglow of GRB 090423 (circled) in a false - color image from the Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii: Gemini Observatory / NSF / AURA, D. Fox and A. Cucchiara (Penn State University) and E. Berger (Harvard University)

Not exact matches

Along with the familiar cosmic microwave background — the afterglow of the big bang — the distant universe is suffused with an infrared background, thought to come from galaxies and stars too faint and far away to see.

Such mergers could give themselves away by their effect on the shapes of the black holes» parent galaxies, and in infrared and ultraviolet afterglows.

Over the next decade, Southwood's «cosmic vision» program calls for, among other goals, landing spacecraft on Mars, Mercury, Saturn's moon Titan, and a comet; observing the birth, evolution, and death of stars and galaxies at gamma ray and infrared wavelengths; studying the afterglow of the big bang; and mapping the positions and motions of nearly every star in the Milky Way.

They saw an afterglow in long - wavelength infrared light, a signature of radioactive decay (arxiv.org/abs/1306.3960).