Sentences with phrase «spectroscopic instrument»

New instruments and sky surveys are coming online that also aim to improve our understanding of dark energy, including the Berkeley Lab - led Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument project that is scheduled to begin operating in 2019.

The micro-shutter array on LUVOIR's spectroscopic instrument should allow it to take an image of many objects at once and at the same depth of HST but 40 times faster.

Aaron Meisner, a UC Berkeley physics postdoctoral researcher who works on DESI (Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument), a sky - mapping project led by the Berkeley Lab, said his research earned him a spot on the Backyard Worlds team.

New data from existing experiments, and next - generation sky surveys such as the Berkeley Lab - led Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) now under construction at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona should provide even more detailed data about these filaments, he added.

Called DESI for Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, this project will trace the growth history of the universe rather like the way you might track your child's height with pencil marks climbing up a doorframe.

The Potsdam Echelle Polarimetric and Spectroscopic Instrument (PEPSI) at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) in Arizona released its first batch of high - spectral resolution data to...

«The results from BOSS provide a solid foundation for even more precise future BAO measurements, such as those we expect from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI),» says Natalie Roe, Physics Division director at Berkeley Lab.

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.

By using two of the world - leading VLT spectroscopic instruments, MUSE and X-shooter, they could carry out a very detailed study of the properties of the emitted light to determine its source.

«Other spectroscopic instruments have flown in space before but none have had this programmable multi-object capability that enables observation of up to 100 objects simultaneously, which means much more scientific investigating can get done in less time.

Through the use of two VLT spectroscopic instruments, MUSE and X-shooter, the study team conducted a very comprehensive study of the qualities of the light being emitted from the colliding galaxies.

This was a product of not only the length of time astronomers were trying to note changes in other stars due to the existence of orbiting planets, but by state - of - the - art optical and spectroscopic instruments that were limited in spectral and spatial resolution.

For this, the team used special spectroscopic instruments to measure radiative forcing - the rate at which the atmosphere warms up.

The scientists used spectroscopic instruments operated by the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility.

The Atmospheric Trace Molecule Spectroscopy Laboratory (ATMOSpeclab) designs, assembles, and validates innovative optical spectroscopic instruments.

Not exact matches

The New Mexico Exoplanet Spectroscopic Survey Instrument (NESSI) will soon get its first «taste» of exoplanets, helping astronomers decipher their chemical composition.

Now, they have found evidence for those salts, using a different instrument on the MRO — one dedicated to the spectroscopic detection of minerals, they report today in Nature Geoscience.

That, however, makes it hard for ground - based instruments to carry out the spectroscopic measurements needed to reveal an exoplanet's mass, which is crucial in establishing whether the planet is rocky or gaseous.

But the tradeoff means that the decision is not an easy one, says Holger Sierks, who is principal investigator on Rosetta's Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System (OSIRIS) instrument.

Now astronomers have looked even deeper into this region using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument at the Very Large Telescope in Chile.

The IRIS instrument with its diffraction limited imaging and spectroscopic capabilities make it ideal to study the actual shapes and composition of these objects, resolving complex structure such as the rings around Chariklo (Braga - Ribas et al. 2014) that have a diameter of ~ 0.1».

ORNL's instrument retains all of the advantages of an atomic force microscope while simultaneously offering the potential for discoveries through its high resolution and subsurface spectroscopic capabilities.

In late September 2010, a group of astronomers in the United States using spectroscopic data from ground - based instruments announced the discovery of a potentially hospitable planet, Gliese 581g, orbiting the star Gliese 581 just 20 light - years away.

By developing and bringing to bear innovative spectroscopic and high resolution imaging instruments on large ground - based telescopes and space telescopes, he and his team have been studying massive black holes in the centers of galaxies (including our own), galactic star formation over cosmic time, and the evolution of galaxies in the Early Universe.

The Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) is an HST instrument providing the capability for infrared imaging and spectroscopic observations of astronomical targets.

She was part of a team of scientists using the MUSE (Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer) instrument on the Very Large Telescope to study AGNs.