Sentences with phrase «other radio astronomers»

Other radio astronomers are working to answer myriad questions about dark matter, fast radio bursts, and much more.

Within a few years, Snyder and other radio astronomers had identified dozens of organic molecules, including formic acid (which causes the sting in ant bites) and methanol (a simple alcohol).

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In 1974, U.S. astronomers Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor discovered a pair of radio - emitting neutron stars called pulsars orbiting each other.

If astronomers act quickly, they can turn other instruments toward the point of origin and record a rapidly fading afterglow of x-rays, visible light and radio waves.

Using a jet of radio waves, astronomers have begun to map the other side of the Milky Way.

Just as radio channels close to each other in frequency can bleed into one another, creating static, so too can radio interference from different technologies bleed into the channels astronomers use to observe.

Pinpointing the sources of gravitational waves will allow astronomers to point other telescopes their way, boosting the chances of learning more about them via x-rays, gamma - rays, radio waves, neutrinos and more.

As the most abundant element in the Universe and the raw fuel for creating stars, hydrogen is used by radio astronomers to detect and understand the makeup of other galaxies.

The origin of a fast radio burst in this type of dwarf galaxy suggests a connection to other energetic events that occur in similar dwarf galaxies, said co-author and UC Berkeley astronomer Casey Law, who led development of the data - acquisition system and created the analysis software to search for rapid, one - off bursts.

Next, they would reach out to astronomers around the world who could target the object with other radio telescopes.

SETI efforts to date have only garnered a small, scattered amount of time on large radio telescopes, and they typically «piggyback» on other scientific observations, passively listening to whatever target other astronomers are investigating.

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Funding for astronomy is far more limited than that available for cancer research, say, and compared with most other fields of science, the number of professional astronomers is astonishingly small (the membership of the American Astronomical Society would just about fit into Radio City Music Hall).

In 1974, radio astronomers Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor, then of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, found just such a system: a pair of dense neutron stars in orbit around each other.

Other astronomers had looked for radio emission from brown dwarfs and not found any.

The package is a mainstay and a daily tool for most of the world's radio astronomers, and also has been used by scientists in such other fields as fluid - dynamics simulation and medical imaging.

«Our conclusions are contrary to other recent work, but in line with the work of radio astronomers who see no new stars being born in this desert,» said Michael Feast, a co-author of the study, in the press release.

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

Combining the best features of the National Science Foundation's new Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia with those of the NSF's Very Large Array in New Mexico, astronomers have produced a vastly improved radio image of the Orion Nebula and developed a valuable new technique for studying star formation and other astrophysical processes.

Astronomers need to know how much of their astronomical data has been contaminated by radio waves given off by air molecules, the telescope's own electronics, and other sources of interference.

Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array radio telescope to make the first - ever time - lapse movie showing details of gas motions around a star other than our Sun.

The astronomers expect material falling onto a black hole to emit radio waves, among other types of radiation.

The radio observations have revealed a size of the fireball, unobtainable by any other technique, thereby enabling astronomers to learn about inner workings of such objects,» said Shri Kulkarni, professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).