Sentences with phrase «sky survey using»

This image was created using the POSS - II / UKSTU data of the Digitized Sky Survey using the process described here.

The international science team, which included researchers from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley, analyzed data from past sky surveys using sophisticated image - recognition technology to home in on the gravity - based effects that identify the shapes of these filaments.

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Researchers from the Dark Energy Survey used the Victor Blanco telescope in Chile to survey 26 million galaxies in a section of the southern sky for subtle distortions caused by the gravitational heft of both dark and normal mSurvey used the Victor Blanco telescope in Chile to survey 26 million galaxies in a section of the southern sky for subtle distortions caused by the gravitational heft of both dark and normal msurvey 26 million galaxies in a section of the southern sky for subtle distortions caused by the gravitational heft of both dark and normal matter.

Now, a team of astronomers has used position and velocity data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as well as computer simulations of stellar evolution in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC, pictured above), a small satellite galaxy near the Milky Way, to show that these speeding stars may come from there.

Asa and his team used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to group together over half a million galaxies of all different colours, shapes, and masses.

Last spring, Geha and Josh Simon, a colleague at Caltech, used the 10 - meter Keck II telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea to study the mass of eight newly discovered satellite galaxies, detected over the last two years by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an ongoing effort to make a detailed map of a million galaxies and quasars.

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.

Although large, professionally conducted surveys like the Catalina Sky Survey, which uses telescopes in Arizona and Australia, and LINEAR in Socorro, New Mexico, have made the majority of Spaceguard finds, amateurs fill a critical role.

They used images from the UltraVISTA survey, one of six projects using VISTA to survey the sky at near - infrared wavelengths, and made a census of faint galaxies when the age of the Universe was between just 0.75 and 2.1 billion years old.

The Dark Energy Survey has now mapped one - eighth of the full sky (red shaded region) using the Dark Energy Camera on the Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile (foreground).

Using archival data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and the XMM - Newton and Chandra X-ray telescopes, a team of astronomers have discovered a gigantic black hole, which is probably destroying and devouring a big star in its vicinity.

On the way, I ran into a staff member who wanted to show me the Samuel Oschin Telescope, a 48 - inch instrument that had been used for 50 years to do the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey.

Now, a team at the University of California Irvine has used observations from NASA's Fermi space telescope, along with data from all - sky surveys, and applied updated calculations to observe our galaxy's centre — where there is thought to be a cluster of dark matter.

Using a mirror 28 feet wide — five times as big as the Pan-STARRS telescopes — and a camera the size of a pickup truck, it will be able to survey the entire sky in three days.

Astrophysicist Paul Westoby and colleagues from Liverpool John Moores University in the U.K. used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to survey spectral lines from 360,000 relatively nearby galSurvey to survey spectral lines from 360,000 relatively nearby galsurvey spectral lines from 360,000 relatively nearby galaxies.

Astronomers working with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have used a 2.5 - meter telescope at the Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico, to map the location of more than 930,000 nearby galaxies, determining the distance to each by how much the expansion of the universe has stretched, or «redshifted,» the wavelength of the galaxy's light.

The Siding Spring Survey uses images from the Siding Spring observatory in Australia as part of the global Catalina Sky Survey, an effort to discover and track potentially dangerous near - Earth objects.

TESS, which NASA recently selected as a new Explorer mission, will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform the all - sky survey of a broad range of exoplanets, ranging from Earth - size to gas giants.

Captured using the exceptional sky - surveying abilities of the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile, this deep view reveals the secrets of the luminous members of the Fornax Cluster, one of the richest and closest galaxy clusters to the Milky Way.

Roger Clowes of the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, UK, and colleagues discovered the structure using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the most comprehensive 3D map of the universe.

Using the Two - Micron All - Sky Survey, Majewski and his colleagues picked out the stars that belonged to the tiny Sagittarius galaxy by their distinctive chemical «fingerprints.»

Marla Geha of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, British Columbia, and Joshua Simon of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena focused on eight candidate objects that had already been located by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which uses a 2.5 - meter telescope at Apache Point, New Mexico, to survey a quarter of the sSky Survey, which uses a 2.5 - meter telescope at Apache Point, New Mexico, to survey a quarter of thSurvey, which uses a 2.5 - meter telescope at Apache Point, New Mexico, to survey a quarter of thsurvey a quarter of the skysky.

For their analysis, they used images from the survey that covered five patches of the sky covering a total area of around 2200 times the size of the full Moon [2], and containing around 15 million galaxies.

Wu leads a team that has developed a method to effectively select quasars in the distant universe based on optical and near - infrared photometric data, in particular using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and NASA's Wide - Field Infrared Explorer, or WISE, satellite.

But they are rare, so finding them requires extensive observing surveys using powerful, large telescopes that take images across a large part of the sky.

The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), the largest component of the third Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS - III), pioneered the use of quasars to map density variations in intergalactic gas at high redshifts, tracing the structure of the young universe.

So these researchers had to infer its movement by using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), an ongoing project to create a 3 - D map of the universe.

«My colleagues and I used both the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Pan-STARRS survey to find the quasars that we recently repSurvey and the Pan-STARRS survey to find the quasars that we recently repsurvey to find the quasars that we recently reported.

Related sites Abstract of research paper, with link to full text NRAO Very Large Array, used to make the radio image Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which spotted the quasar

For instance, look at the recent use of the Cosmic Evolution Survey, using the Hubble Space Telescope to study gravitational lensings [in which the gravitational pull of galaxies and dark matter bends the light from more distant objects] in an area of the sky nine times the apparent surface area of the full moon.

The scientists also used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the W.M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and the MMT Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Arizona.

SDSSJ1506 +54 jumped out at the researchers when they looked at it using data from WISE's all - sky infrared survey.

Rogerson and his team used data from a large survey of the sky known as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to identify new outflows from qusurvey of the sky known as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to identify new outflows from quasasky known as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to identify new outflows from quasaSky Survey to identify new outflows from quSurvey to identify new outflows from quasars.

Taiwan - American Occultation Survey Astronomers are using four small robotic telescopes to simultaneously scan the same patch of sky.

The team from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) combined two different methods of using quasars and intergalactic hydrogen gas to measure the rate of expansion of the universe.

Sheppard and Trujillo, along with David Tholen of the University of Hawaii, are conducting the largest, deepest survey for objects beyond Neptune and the Kuiper Belt and have covered nearly 10 percent of the sky to date using some of the largest and most advanced telescopes and cameras in the world, such as the Dark Energy Camera on the NOAO 4 - meter Blanco telescope in Chile and the Japanese Hyper Suprime Camera on the 8 - meter Subaru telescope in Hawaii.

Using archival data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and the XMM - Newton and Chandra X-ray telescopes, a team of astronomers have discovered a gigantic black hole, which is probably destroying and devouring a massive star in its vicinity.

Fu has participated in the Carnegie Summer Undergraduate Research program over the past two summers, working with staff astronomer Josh Simon studying dwarf galaxies and streams of stars surrounding our Milky Way using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

According to my correspondence with the Space Telescope Science Institute I am allowed to use the POSS - II / UKSTU data to create and display images for non-commercial purposes so long as I include this fine print taken from the DSS site: The Digitized Sky Surveys were produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute under U.S. Government grant NAG W - 2166.

The quasar image in the original image of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which has been used for the actual survey to identify gravitational lensing, looks only slightly extended, but the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image clearly exhibits two distinct quasar images (white) as well as a massive galaxy in between the quasar images (orange) that produces gravitational leSurvey (SDSS), which has been used for the actual survey to identify gravitational lensing, looks only slightly extended, but the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image clearly exhibits two distinct quasar images (white) as well as a massive galaxy in between the quasar images (orange) that produces gravitational lesurvey to identify gravitational lensing, looks only slightly extended, but the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) image clearly exhibits two distinct quasar images (white) as well as a massive galaxy in between the quasar images (orange) that produces gravitational lensing.

Most of the images used to illustrate the RCW catalog were created using the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey, with red = hydrogen - alpha, blue = UKST Blue and green = UKST Infrared.

According to my correspondence with the Royal Observatory Edinburgh and the Space Telescope Science Institute, I am allowed to use the POSS - II / UKSTU data to create and display images for non-commercial purposes so long as I include this fine print for the SuperCOSMOS data: Use of these images is courtesy of the UK Schmidt Telescope (copyright in which is owned by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council of the UK and the Anglo - Australian Telescope Board) and the Southern Sky Survey as created by the SuperCOSMOS measuring machine and are reproduced here with permission from the Royal Observatory Edinburuse the POSS - II / UKSTU data to create and display images for non-commercial purposes so long as I include this fine print for the SuperCOSMOS data: Use of these images is courtesy of the UK Schmidt Telescope (copyright in which is owned by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council of the UK and the Anglo - Australian Telescope Board) and the Southern Sky Survey as created by the SuperCOSMOS measuring machine and are reproduced here with permission from the Royal Observatory EdinburUse of these images is courtesy of the UK Schmidt Telescope (copyright in which is owned by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council of the UK and the Anglo - Australian Telescope Board) and the Southern Sky Survey as created by the SuperCOSMOS measuring machine and are reproduced here with permission from the Royal Observatory Edinburgh.

It was then further examined using information gleaned from the Very Large Array (VLA) telescope, used in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey Project to study large sections of the visible sSky Survey Project to study large sections of the visible skysky.

This publication makes use of data products from the Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer, which is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles; the Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology, which is funded by NASA; the Two Micron All Sky Survey, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center / California Institute of Technology, funded by NASA; and the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) Photometric All - Sky Survey (APASS), whose funding is provided by the Robert Martin Ayers Sciences Fund and the AAVSO Endowment (https://www.aavso.org/aavso-photometric-all-sky-survey-data-release-1).

According to a NASA announcement on Friday, «TESS will use an array of telescopes to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets ranging from Earth - sized to gas giants, in orbit around the nearest and brightest stars in the sky.

The astronomers began their quest by using the VLBA to make very high resolution images of more than 1,200 galaxies, previously identified by large - scale sky surveys done with infrared and radio telescopes.

Designated WISE J104915.57 - 531906 (but shortened to WISE 1049 - 5319), the binary system was found using infrared images collected by NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) during a 13 - month period ending in 2011, which every point in the sky was observed two to three times.

The VLA Low - frequency Sky Survey (VLSS) is producing sky images made at an observing frequency of 74 MHz, a far lower frequency than used for most current radio - astronomy researSky Survey (VLSS) is producing sky images made at an observing frequency of 74 MHz, a far lower frequency than used for most current radio - astronomy researsky images made at an observing frequency of 74 MHz, a far lower frequency than used for most current radio - astronomy research.

The study used data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, or BOSS, an Earth - based sky survey that captured light from about 1.5 million galaxies to study the universe's expansion and the patterned distribution of matter in the universe set in motion by the propagation of sound waves, or «baryonic acoustic oscillations,» rippling in the early uniSurvey, or BOSS, an Earth - based sky survey that captured light from about 1.5 million galaxies to study the universe's expansion and the patterned distribution of matter in the universe set in motion by the propagation of sound waves, or «baryonic acoustic oscillations,» rippling in the early unisurvey that captured light from about 1.5 million galaxies to study the universe's expansion and the patterned distribution of matter in the universe set in motion by the propagation of sound waves, or «baryonic acoustic oscillations,» rippling in the early universe.

So Jewitt and Luu carried out two parallel surveys: they used the Palomar Observatory's Schmidt telescope equipped with conventional glass photographic plates to scan large areas of the sky for the very faintest objects, while also watching a narrow field of view in the plane of the planets for rare but slightly brighter objects using MIT's 1.3 - metre telescope fitted with a CCD.