Sentences with phrase «observatory radio astronomer»

The Green Bank Observatory Radio Astronomer for a Day program provides an authentic research experience for students in grades 5 and up.

The 1970's marked a time of increased collaboration between the Algonquin Observatory radio astronomers and the researchers at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics.

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«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..

In February 2017, pinpointing the locations of FRBs will become much easier for astronomers with the commissioning of the Deep Synoptic Array prototype, an array of 10 radio dishes at Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory in Califoradio dishes at Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory in CalifoRadio Observatory in California.

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,radio astronomy operations up to 100 kilometers away, said Harvey Liszt, a radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville,radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville,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 Meradio astronomer Dale Frail of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Soccorro, New MeRadio Astronomy Observatory in Soccorro, New Mexico.

Drake was a young radio astronomer at the time, working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virgradio astronomer at the time, working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West VirgRadio 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 long lag before astronomers began to pick up radio and x-ray emissions supports that picture, says Raffaella Margutti, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, who studied the event with NASA's orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Astronomers have produced a highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula, by combining data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves seen by the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to the powerful X-ray glow as seen by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory.

In a pair of papers in the 1 November issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, radio astronomer Nichi D'Amico of the Bologna Astronomical Observatory in Italy and his colleagues report that the pulsar's faint radio blips disappear during nearly half of its orbit, presumably eclipsed by a shroud of gas from its companion.

«One of the primary science goals of ALMA is the detection and detailed study of galaxies throughout cosmic time,» said Chris Carilli, an astronomer with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico.

Astronomer Dale Frail of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico, says the unified model «is so simple and elegant, you want it to be true.»

«What we're seeing is a star that is the cosmic equivalent of «Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,» with the ability to change from one form to its more intense counterpart with startling speed,» said Scott Ransom, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Va. «Though we have known that X-ray binaries — some of which are observed as X-ray pulsars — can evolve over millions of years to become rapidly spinning radio pulsars, we were surprised to find one that seemed to swing so quickly between the two.&rRadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Va. «Though we have known that X-ray binaries — some of which are observed as X-ray pulsars — can evolve over millions of years to become rapidly spinning radio pulsars, we were surprised to find one that seemed to swing so quickly between the two.&rradio pulsars, we were surprised to find one that seemed to swing so quickly between the two.»

When looking through 15 - year - old radio data from several observatories in 2013, astronomers found clumpy segments along a ring shape in our galaxy; when they searched for it in visible light, they came up empty.

An international team of astronomers led by Paulo Freire of the Jodrell Bank Observatory at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, detected the gas by observing 15 millisecond pulsars — compact, rapidly spinning stars that emit bursts of radio waves with clockwork precision.

«The processes near a black hole that kick out radio emissions are basically unknown,» says Edward Fomalont, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Virgradio emissions are basically unknown,» says Edward Fomalont, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in VirgRadio Astronomy Observatory in Virginia.

Discovering molecules like amino acetonitrile is a big deal, because it's not easy for them to materialize in the extreme temperatures of space, says radio astronomer Anthony Remijan of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia: «Too hot and they are destroyed, too cold and they can't form.&rradio astronomer Anthony Remijan of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia: «Too hot and they are destroyed, too cold and they can't form.&rRadio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia: «Too hot and they are destroyed, too cold and they can't form.»

To help settle the question, astronomer Donald Campbell of Cornell University and his team trained the world's most powerful radio observatory — the Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico — on the moon's south pole, particularly its large Shackleton Crater, searching for signs of water like those detected on Mercury and elsewhere.

In the past year astronomers working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Green Bank Telescope have identified eight new molecules that are some of the largest and most complex compounds discovered in space.

Despite the large and growing catalog of space chemicals coming from the radio observatories, astronomer J. Mayo Greenberg of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands suspected that his colleagues were missing a vital piece of the puzzle.

«ALMA has solved a decades - old question on galaxy formation,» said Chris Carilli, an astronomer with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, N.M., and co-author on the paper.

«The event was there, we know it happened — we know it from several independent sources — and the descriptions are very similar,» says Roland Kothes, an astronomer at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in British Columbia.

Thus were established, after World War II, the NOAO and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)-- also among the first National Science Foundation (NSF) entities to be federally funded — with the aim of giving all U.S. astronomers access to top facilities.6 These observatories quickly adopted a so - called open skies policy (OSP), which guaranteed any researcher, U.S. or international, equal and free access to the federally funded NOAO / NRAO telescopes.

«The radio emission these students discovered coming from this brown dwarf is 10,000 times stronger than anyone expected,» said Dale Frail, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorroradio emission these students discovered coming from this brown dwarf is 10,000 times stronger than anyone expected,» said Dale Frail, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in SocorroRadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, NM.

Since joining the Observatory in 1989, Sue Ann has pioneered immersive, hands - on field trip opportunities such as the Radio Astronomer for a Day program that has served over 30,000 students.

The scientists who conducted the study include University of Chile astronomers Andrés Guzmán (principal researcher), Guido Garay (Astronomy Department Director), Leonardo Bronfman, and Diego Mardones, as well as Luis Rodríguez (UNAM Center for Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics), James M. Moran (Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Kate Brooks (Center for Astronomy and Space Science, CSIRO - Australia) and Lars - Ake Nyman (Joint ALMA Observatory).

Using the millimeter - wave interferometer at Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory, the astronomers combined 15 smaller images into a single mosaic to produce an image showing the location of Carbon Monoxide (CO) gas throughout a galaxy called IC 10, some 2.5 million light - years away.

«We have found a remarkably large dust mass concentrated in the central part of the ejecta from a relatively young and nearby supernova,» said Remy Indebetouw, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the University of Virginia, both in Charlottesville, USA.

Astronomers using a world - wide collection of radio telescopes, including the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), have made a dramatic «movie» of a voracious, superdense neutron star repeatedly spitting out subatomic particles at nearly the speed of light into two narrow jets as it pulls material from a companion radio telescopes, including the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), have made a dramatic «movie» of a voracious, superdense neutron star repeatedly spitting out subatomic particles at nearly the speed of light into two narrow jets as it pulls material from a companion Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), have made a dramatic «movie» of a voracious, superdense neutron star repeatedly spitting out subatomic particles at nearly the speed of light into two narrow jets as it pulls material from a companion star.

«It clearly had become time to make a systematic study and try to find out just what percentage of brown dwarfs are emitting radio waves,» said Rachel Osten, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virgradio waves,» said Rachel Osten, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, VirgRadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Over the years, more and more radio astronomers were joining the astronomy department at the University of Toronto, and in the 1960's, the David Dunlap Observatory actively participated in the development of the Algonquin Radio Observatory in Ontradio astronomers were joining the astronomy department at the University of Toronto, and in the 1960's, the David Dunlap Observatory actively participated in the development of the Algonquin Radio Observatory in OntRadio Observatory in Ontario.

«This thing looks like a quasar in VLA images, but quasars come in big galaxies, not little ones like this,» said Neal Miller, an astronomer with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

In recent decades, astronomers armed with radio telescopes, orbital observatories and other powerful high - tech tools have begun to answer that question.

Using the exquisite sensitivity of the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope, astronomer Jay Lockman of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia, has produced the best cross-section ever of the Milky Way Galaxy's diffuse halo of hydrogen gas.

Astronomers have combined data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to conclude that a peculiar source of radio waves thought to be a distant galaxy is actually a nearby binary star system containing a low - mass star and a black hole.

In 1984, major radio and television networks reported that astronomers at Kitt Peak National Observatory had discovered the first planet outside the solar system.

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Thanks to recent distance measurements with an international network of radio telescopes, including the EVN (European Very Long Baseline Interferometry Network) telescopes, the NSF's Green Bank Telescope and Arecibo Observatory, astronomers realized that VLA J2130 +12 is at a distance of 7,200 light years, showing that it is well within our own Milky Way galaxy and about five times closer than M15.

As the last of the data arrived at project observatories, he watched celebratory comments come pouring in on a special chat line for radio astronomers and engineers.

Radio astronomers at Penticton have been striving towards this goal since the first days of the observatory.

A new radio telescope array operating at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory in California has the ability to image the entire sky simultaneously at radio wavelengths with unmatched speed, helping astronomers to search for objects and phenomena that pulse, flicker, flare, or expradio telescope array operating at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory in California has the ability to image the entire sky simultaneously at radio wavelengths with unmatched speed, helping astronomers to search for objects and phenomena that pulse, flicker, flare, or expRadio Observatory in California has the ability to image the entire sky simultaneously at radio wavelengths with unmatched speed, helping astronomers to search for objects and phenomena that pulse, flicker, flare, or expradio wavelengths with unmatched speed, helping astronomers to search for objects and phenomena that pulse, flicker, flare, or explode.

This radio telescope at the Kitt Peak Observatory in Arizona is one of many here that are widely used by professional astronomers.

A team of astronomers combining radio data from the Green Bank Telescope, West Virginia, with data from the radar transmitter at the National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico, have compiled a stunning new view of Venus.

Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have awarded the 2017 Jansky Lectureship to South African astronomer Bernie Fanaroff for his exceptional contributions to radio astronomy and his unparalleled leadership through public serRadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) have awarded the 2017 Jansky Lectureship to South African astronomer Bernie Fanaroff for his exceptional contributions to radio astronomy and his unparalleled leadership through public serradio astronomy and his unparalleled leadership through public service.

Frail, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico, along with Shri Kulkarni and Josh Bloom, astronomers at Caltech, discovered radio emission coming from a strange object 15,000 light - years away in our own Milky Way GaRadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, New Mexico, along with Shri Kulkarni and Josh Bloom, astronomers at Caltech, discovered radio emission coming from a strange object 15,000 light - years away in our own Milky Way Garadio emission coming from a strange object 15,000 light - years away in our own Milky Way Galaxy.

The Joint ALMA Observatory set up a booth to make the progress of the ALMA project known to the astronomers from all over the world in cooperation with the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), European Southern Observatory (ESO), and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

«These ALMA observations give us new insights into how organic molecules, the building blocks of life, form and evolve in a planet - like environment,» said Anthony Remijan, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va., and coauthor on the paper.

Over 200 astronomers from all around the world have gathered in Indian Wells, California, U.S.A. to participate in the «Half a Decade of ALMA: Cosmic Dawns Transformed» conference held between September 20 and 23 and organized by the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) and its partners: The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), and the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

«Gravity is the force that binds stars, planets, and galaxies together,» said Scott Ransom, a co-author and astronomer with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va. «Though it appears on Earth to be constant and universal, there are some theories in cosmology that suggest gravity may change over time or may be different in different corners of the Universe.»