Sentences with phrase «mullard radio astronomy»

They mapped out how far star - forming regions were from the sky, using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Long Baseline Array of telescopes, and calculating how far these war form Earth.

«Our dreams came true,» Gerd Weigelt, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, said in an ESO press release about the new image.

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Visitors to the NRAO can see the scopes, stroll the parklike grounds and learn about the pioneers of radio astronomy, but they can't use a cell phone — 13,000 square miles around the installation are a designated National Radio Quiet Zone to minimize interference with ongoing data collection.

In the hopes of seeing the gas clouds from which the first stars arose, Loeb has devoted much of the past decade to a new field called 21 - centimeter cosmology, a branch of radio astronomy that focuses on identifying electromagnetic radiation that started out with a wavelength of 21 centimeters.

The new field of 21 - centimeter cosmology is a branch of radio astronomy that focuses on identifying electromagnetic radiation that started out with a wavelength of 21 centimeters.

They have more traditionally been used in deep space communication and radio astronomy.

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Such an excess first emerged in the late 1960s and was mapped in 1981 by Glyn Haslam of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, but few astronomers thought much of it until now.

John Curtin Distinguished Professor Steven Tingay, from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), said the MWA team did not initially set out to find «Oumuamua.

The facility itself is decades old, but recent improvements to the electronics of the array are boosting its performance specs across the board by factors of at least 10, and in some cases by more than 1,000, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Rick Perley said at the meeting.

Alberto Sanna of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, and his colleagues used the Very Long Baseline Array of radio telescopes in New Mexico to track a star - forming region in the outer Scutum - Centaurus spiral arm, which is on the opposite side of the Milky Way from the local arm where the sun resides.

Nemaungani sold the SKA committee on South Africa's clear skies (necessary for precision radio astronomy), the promised political support of its president and cabinet — who have passed legislation to strictly limit the amount of radio noise in the remote site area — and its expertise in engineering and infrastructure.

John Tobin of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia, and colleagues found that the disc's motion mirrors the way planets orbit stars, hinting that it has all the right moves for planet formation (Nature, doi.org/jxm).

«This basically confirms that AGN seem to be the best sources,» says team member Peter Biermann from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany.

«SKA will be the premier project of the coming decades, completely revolutionizing radio astronomy,» said Ted Williams, director of the South African Astronomical Observatory.

«Astronomy really is about to explode across the African continent,» astronomer Kartik Sheth of the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory said January 9 at the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society near Washington, D.C..

McGuire et al. used radio astronomy to detect rotational transitions of benzonitrile emitted from a well - known nearby cloud of interstellar gas (see the Perspective by Joblin and Cernicharo).

Was it the first step on the path to a paradigm shift in radio astronomy, similar to pulsars or gamma ray bursts?

Radio astronomy is used to identify the aromatic molecule benzonitrile in the interstellar medium.

«The gradual brightening of the radio signal indicates we are seeing a wide - angle outflow of material, traveling at speeds comparable to the speed of light, from the neutron star merger,» said Kunal Mooley, now a National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow hosted by Caltech.

Although some of my research focuses on the development of nanoelectronic devices for life science applications (as well as for telecommunications and radio astronomy), most of my research efforts are based on the use of microfluidic chips (MFCs) with molecular biology.

«We should be grateful to the universe for making such things,» says Paulo Freire, an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, who applauds the finding.

According to lead author Alberto Sanna, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany, the VLBA's measurement is «equivalent to seeing a baseball on the surface of the moon.»

- NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, then about 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from Jupiter, observed the impacts with its ultraviolet spectrometer and a planetary radio astronomy instrument.

Update on 27 October: Another high - mass pulsar weighing 1.97 solar masses was reported by a team led by Paul Demorest of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia (Nature, vol 467, p 1081).

Bowing to these pressures, Clauser pursued a dissertation on a more acceptable topic — radio astronomy and astrophysics — but in the back of his mind he continued to puzzle through how Bell's inequality might be put to the test.

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At the American Astronomical Society meeting in January, Christopher Carilli of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and his colleagues argued that the holes came first.

For instance, radar on driverless cars could affect radio astronomy operations up to 100 kilometers away, said Harvey Liszt, a radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va..

«Since gamma ray bursts are usually so well behaved, this really stood out,» says radio astronomer Dale Frail of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Soccorro, New Mexico.

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The team, led by Andreas Brunthaler at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, measured the gas around two star - forming regions on opposite sides of the M33 galaxy.

Arecibo occupies a unique place in the history of radio astronomy.

The array began operating in 2007, using low - cost electronics to combine the input from the many radio antennas and to comb through the resulting signal, simultaneously doing conventional radio astronomy and scanning for signals from ET.

Drake was a young radio astronomer at the time, working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia.

«The era of gravitational wave astronomy is upon us,» says astronomer Scott Ransom of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va., who is not involved with LIGO.

«The discovery of a repeating FRB has not only narrowed down the possible astrophysical origins of FRBs,» says lead author Laura Spitler of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, «but we also have a better shot at unraveling their nature by being able to observe more bursts from this source.»

This year marks the semicentennial of the discovery of pulsars, first observed by Jocelyn Bell Burnell, shown here in 1968 at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cambridge, England.

But the allocation to radio astronomy is meagre — 2 per cent of allocated bandwidth — and unfortunately that reserved bandwidth is not free from interference.

Radio astronomy is a passive user.

«It's quite possible that identification is questionable,» says Jason Hessels of the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, who was not involved in either study.

Scientifically, the telescope is a success, and great credit is due to Professor Bernard Lovell who planned the project when radio astronomy was still in its infancy.

An international team of scientists has pushed the limits of radio astronomy to detect a faint signal emitted by hydrogen gas in a galaxy more than five billion light years away — almost double the previous record.

In a new approach, members of the team including Dr Attila Popping from International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research and the ARC Centre of All - sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO) in Australia are working with Amazon Web Services to process and move the large volumes of data via the «cloud».

Professor Andreas Wicenec, head of the Data Intensive Astronomy team at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, said the limiting factor for radio astronomers used to be the size of the telescope and the hardware behind it.

Using the Very Large Array of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in the US, the team observed radio emission from hydrogen in a distant galaxy and found that it would have contained billions of young, massive stars surrounded by clouds of hydrogen gas.

«This means that, using the VLBA, we now can accurately map the whole extent of our Galaxy,» said Alberto Sanna, of the Max - Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Germany.

«It's tragic that we now have a scientifically very interesting mission without an option of really flying it,» says Michael Grewing of the Institute for Millimeter Radio Astronomy in Grenoble, France, chair of ESA's Space Science Advisory Committee.