Sentences with phrase «x-ray telescope observations»

Researchers from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), jointly run by Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, shed light on this important era by analyzing 84 sets of X-ray telescope observations from the Japanese - US Suzaku satellite.

Not exact matches

Soon after the initial observations of the merger site, the Earth's annual trip around the Sun placed the object too close to the Sun in the sky for X-ray and visible - light telescopes to observe.

«Various observations of one particular star over the years and with different telescopes have revealed vastly different things — at one time a pulsar and the other an X-ray binary,» said Alessandro Papitto of the Institute of Space Sciences (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas — Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya) in Barcelona, Spain, and lead author of a paper published in the journal Nature.

Heinz and his colleagues quickly mounted a series of follow - up observations with the space - based Chandra and XMM - Newton telescopes to discover four bright rings of X-rays, like ripples in a cosmic pond, all around the neutron star at the heart of Circinus X-1.

Additional observations and archival data from other telescopes confirmed the on - again, off - again cycle of X-ray and radio pulsations.

The first two disks zoom into the central galaxy cluster, the third disk (far right) demonstrates how an observation of the zoom area would look with an X-ray telescope («virtual telescope»).

To determine just how far away they are, researchers will combine the information from the Hubble images with observations taken by NASA's Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes, which see in infrared and x-ray light, respectively.

This is important for other radio, optical, X-ray and gamma - ray telescopes so they can follow up observations of these cosmic events with their own observation.

To study the process, Brickhouse and her team combined observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with those from ground - based optical telescopes.

But observations beginning in 2014 from NASA's NuSTAR and other space telescopes are showing that some ULXs, which glow with X-ray light equal in energy to millions of suns, are actually neutron stars — the burnt - out cores of massive stars that exploded.

Science Interests Formation of galaxies and black holes in the early universe and their growth over cosmic time; large surveys with Hubble and other telescopes to discover new populations of distant galaxies and black holes; physical properties of active galactic nuclei using observations from radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet through to X-ray energies.

The European X-ray Observatory Satellite (EXOSAT), originally named HELOS, was an X-ray telescope operational from May 1983 until April 1986 and in that time made 1780 observations in the X-ray band of most classes of astronomical object including active galactic nuclei, stellar coronae, cataclysmic variables, white dwarfs, X-ray binaries, clusters of galaxies, and supernova remnants.