Sentences with phrase «large synoptic»

Justine Haupt is an engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory's Instrumentation Division on the design team for the world's largest digital camera — the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope — where her expertise spans optical, mechanical, and electrical system design.

First, we have to find dwarf galaxies and that requires very large sky surveys like the Dark Energy Survey — which discovered Reticulum II — as well as surveys conducted by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, which will start operations in the 2020s.

Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Science User Interface and Tools Center assigned to IPAC

«The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope would employ the most ambitious optical sky survey approach yet and would revolutionize investigations of transient phenomena,» the report states.

The AAS further endorses the report's key recommendations on optimizing instrumentation for, and offering broad access to, the full suite of public and private telescopes; on developing the capacity to further investigate Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) discoveries; on identifying the facilities needed to realize other decadal survey priorities; and on continuing technology development and astronomer training needed for the future.

With 8 -10-meter class telescopes coming online equipped now in the next decade with large fields - of - view (such as the Subaru Telescope with Hyper Suprime - Cam and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope), I think we'll be able to find many more residents of the inner Oort Cloud, and begin to really study this population of remote icy bodies that until now has remained rather elusive.

When it launches, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will also be able to scrutinize the atmospheres of some of the closest exoplanets, while the large surveys conducted by NASA's forthcoming WFIRST (Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope) and the ground - based LSST (Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) currently under construction in Chile, will also find many more exoplanets, complementing the work done by TESS and Kepler before it.

They will also be used in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and the Giant Magellan Telescope.

Also, next year construction will begin on the new NSF funded Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile.

In 2008, for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, he cast a doughnut - shaped 8.4 - metre mirror with a 5 - metre mirror in the central hole.

Other imaging surveys like the Dark Energy Survey and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope measure dark energy in a different way, by observing how matter that lies between observed galaxies and us distorts that light.

Both will prepare scientists for future surveys, including ones with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST).

They expect a bunch more similar observations — hundreds, they write — will come from a huge new project still under construction, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, due to turn on around 2023.

The flood of new data is only expected to rise with upcoming wide - field surveys like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), a National Science Foundation and Department of Energy project that will be based in Chile.

Indeed, new international projects, too, are becoming more complex in their membership and funding, involving not only nation - states but also private foundations and international organizations, as with the future Thirty Meter Telescope and Large Synoptic Survey Telescope projects.

Future instruments like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, which will detect much fainter stars across the sky, should be able to identify the other streams.

Now the team is proposing to improve the test with an even larger telescope: the 8.4 - meter Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST, now under construction in Chile).

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, under construction in Chile, is one of the NSF - funded facilities that could be affected by new proposed legislation.

The second, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, has similar scientific goals, though it will scan the sky from the Southern Hemisphere vantage point of a mountain in Chile.

Future missions such as the Euclid satellite and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will allow us to repeat these measurements and better understand what the Universe is really telling us,» concludes Konrad Kuijken (Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands), who is principal investigator of the KiDS survey.

Plans to build the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile have taken another step forward.

This in turn suggests that more - capable future observatories, such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, will find many more when they begin operations in the 2020s.

The panel recommends that NSF start funding construction of the $ 665 million Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in 2014.

But Irwin Shapiro, an astrophysicist at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who chaired the 2010 Committee to Review Near - Earth - Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies for the U.S. National Research Council, says that ground - based observatories such as the planned Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) on Cerro Pachón in Chile are better value for money than space telescopes, because they last longer and are less expensive.

The future Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (seen in this artist's conception) could find even more planets in its full - sky scans.

The panel, which released its report on Thursday, says NSF must make some tough choices if it wants to follow through on plans to build new ground - based instruments such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), the top - priority ground - based instrument for U.S. astronomers, has gotten the green light to go ahead with construction, with a view to seeing its first light in 2019.

«Future facilities like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, and ESA's Euclid satellite, will gratefully exploit the Gaia catalog,» Brown says.

The new center would provide services to the Gemini Observatory (with twin 8.1 - meter telescopes in Hawaii and Chile), the National Optical Astronomy Observatory with a handful of telescopes in Chile and the United States, and the still - rising Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, an 8.4 - meter instrument in Chile.

If the survey shuts down, there won't be another ground telescope capable of fulfilling its duties until the 2020s, when the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is due to go online in Chile.

Pan-STARRS is a precursor to the much grander Large Synoptic Survey Telescope slated to begin operating in either Mexico or Chile in 2012.

For instance, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, opening in 2022, will collect 30 terabytes of data nightly as it observes the whole sky every few days from the vantage of the Southern Hemisphere.

The decision comes as part of the NSF's years - long effort to offload several of its astronomical research facilities to free up millions of dollars each year for future projects, such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope that is under construction in Chile.

The National Science Foundation plans early in the next decade to build the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope with a 28 - foot mirror.

Instruments like the 8.4 - meter Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, slated to begin operation in 2014, will use massive computer power to carry out continuous scans of sky for near - Earth objects, leaving ever fewer patches for amateurs to focus on.

After running a number of computationally intensive simulations of supernova light at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab, Goldstein and Nugent suspect that they'll be able to find about 1,000 of these strongly lensed Type Ia supernovae in data collected by the upcoming Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)-- about 20 times more than previous expectations.

The NSF is working on the development of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, which had been endorsed by the previous decadal survey, in 2001, and was reaffirmed as the top project on the ground in the most recent decadal survey.

When the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) in Cerro Pachón, Chile, aims its 3.2 - billion - pixel digital camera (the world's largest) at the night sky in 2019, it will capture an area 49 times as large as the moon in each 15 - second exposure, 2,000 times a night.

Those future surveys include the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, DESI, set to kick off in 2019 at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson; the European Space Agency's Euclid satellite, launching in 2021; and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope in Chile, which is set to begin collecting data in 2023.

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope [LSST], being built atop Cerro Pachón in Chile, is a $ 450 million megaproject that will truly cement the relationship between astronomy and informatics.

These facilities, most notably the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) set to debut in 2020, promise to revolutionize the field of «transient» astronomy — the study not of steady - shining stars and galaxies, but of the things that rapidly move and change: exploding stars, whirling asteroids and comets, and anything else that goes «bump!»

Not exact matches

When we read the synoptic gospels, we are struck by the fact that Jesus was always followed by large crowds of people.

Indeed, it is striking that the same critical tests which, when applied to the birth stories, reveal so large an element of legend, have the effect, rather, of establishing the validity of the Gospel record when they are applied to the main body of the tradition, the Synoptic account of Jesus» public career.

The Synoptic Evangelists furnish us, by and large, with a unanimous report.

Your respect for the authentic voice of Jesus that is still to be found in and under the multiple layers of the synoptics strikes the right note against those whose view is characterized by PAUL LARGE and everything else, a pale footnote.

But this close resemblance of the three Synoptic Gospels to one another, not only in the character of the tradition but to a large extent in the text as well, is not to be explained solely by their partnership in a common stock of tradition.

Schultz, a professor of synoptic meteorology, and co-author Dr Vladimir Janković, a science historian specialising in weather and climate, say the short - term, large variability from year to year in high - impact weather makes it difficult, if not impossible, to draw conclusions about the correlation to longer - term climate change.

The Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT): a small robotic telescope for large - area synoptic surveys.

These simulations helped them to understand the forces causing shifts in the jet that increase the survival of large - scale weather events, technically known as atmospheric mid-latitude synoptic waves.

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