Sentences with phrase «astrophysicists at»

Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas, both astrophysicists at Harvard, who were characterized as fringe scientists whose work should be ignored.

Astrophysicists at Goethe University Frankfurt, and collaborators -LSB-...]

Astrophysicists at UC Santa Barbara are the first scientists to identify two white dwarf stars in an eclipsing binary system, allowing for the first direct radius measurement of a rare white dwarf composed of pure helium.

The pictures collected by the Planck satellite provided astrophysicists at the conclave in Ferrara, Italy, with a glimpse into the past by using radio receivers to capture the remnants of microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang.

An independent analysis by astrophysicists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) shows Kepler's track record of finding extrasolar planets is better than 80 percent.

(Phys.org)-- Astrophysicists at UC San Diego have measured the minute gravitational distortions in polarized radiation from the early universe and discovered that these ancient microwaves can provide an important cosmological...

The data on the numerous candidates are somewhat preliminary and require validation, but a new analysis by a pair of astrophysicists at the California Institute of Technology suggests that the percentage of false positives among Kepler's candidate planets may be less than 10 percent.

New research led by astrophysicists at York University has revealed the fastest winds ever seen at ultraviolet wavelengths near a supermassive black hole.

Astrophysicists at UC San Diego have measured the minute gravitational distortions in polarized radiation from the early universe and discovered that these ancient microwaves can provide an important cosmological test of Einstein's theory of general relativity.

Mordecai - Mark Mac Low and Ben Oppenheimer, resident astrophysicists at AMNH and the co-curators of the show, present a collection of convincing simulations that offer the viewer a state - of - the - art demonstration of astrophysics.

Astrophysicists at the University of Minnesota conducted a supercomputer simulation of sun - like stars to model this turbulence, which violently but effectively circulates heat in the region just below the stellar surface.

Astrophysicists at the University of Birmingham have used data from the NASA Kepler space telescope to discover a class of extrasolar planets whose atmospheres have been stripped away by their host stars, according to research published in the journal Nature Communications today (11 April 2016).

Astrophysicists at Goethe University Frankfurt, and collaborators in the ERC - funded project BlackHoleCam in Bonn and Nijmegen have created and compared self - consistent and realistic images of the shadow of an accreting supermassive black hole — such as the black - hole candidate Sagittarius A * (Sgr A *) in the heart of our galaxy — both in general relativity and in a different theory of gravity.

To find out what happened, astrophysicists at NASA's Ames facility devised an artificial environment full of crushed walnut shells to test the engines and found that the pulsing of the rockets on the Martian surface injected more gas into the soil than expected.

In the meantime Avi Loeb and Laura Kreidberg, two astrophysicists at the Harvard — Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, have already detailed a near - term plan for studying Proxima b without a transit.

But astrophysicists at JPL and Caltech caution that detecting faint gravitational waves would likely require more than a few pulsars.

Astrophysicists at the University of Toronto have found that a close encounter with Jupiter about four billion years ago may have resulted in another planet's ejection from the Solar System altogether.

Astrophysicists at Goethe University Frankfurt set a new limit for the maximum mass of neutron stars: It can not exceed 2.16 solar masses.

For the first time, astrophysicists at Goethe University Frankfurt have succeeded in calculating a strict upper limit for the maximum mass of neutron stars.

To figure out how to look for actual proof of extrasolar lightning, Helling combined Drift's code with another atmospheric model called Phoenix, created by astrophysicists at the University of Hamburg.

Guy Consolmagno, a Jesuit astrophysicist at the Vatican Observatory.

«The universe was expanding, and as it expanded, it got cooler and less dense,» David Spergel, a theoretical astrophysicist at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J. EXPAND: To spread or stretch out.

«Now we're finally here,» says Vicky Kalogera, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill..

«When Hubble goes, it goes,» says John Mather, a Nobel laureate astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

Despite such uncertainty, Jordi Miralda - Escudé, an astrophysicist at the University of Barcelona unaffiliated with the work, says the results should have profound implications for future research.

«We don't want to wait that long,» says Martin Hendry, an astrophysicist at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

«No other supernova had shown that kind of phenomenon,» says Richard McCray, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Berkeley.

[Tyson: I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, and I'm an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History right here in New York City.

Everything seen so far at the edge of the universe is the brightest, biggest, craziest at that time,» says Jennifer Lotz, an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

«During the past few years our group,» says David Jones, an astrophysicist at the IAC and another of the authors on the paper, «has discovered that the planetary nebulae with the biggest discrepancies in their abundances are usually associated with binary central stars which have been through a phase with a common envelope, that is to say the process of expansion of the more massive of the two stars has meant that the other star is orbiting within its outer atmosphere, and the viscosity has brought the stars very close to one another.

The study appears to vindicate predictions from theorists such as Mark Morris, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who in 1993 penned a key paper predicting tens of thousands of stellar - mass black holes would form a disk around the galactic center.

Given how quickly the spots are waning, the ring will probably be destroyed sometime in the next decade, Claes Fransson, an astrophysicist at Stockholm University, and colleagues predicted in 2015 in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The most famous British astrophysicist at the time, Hoyle was a magnet for the more ambitious students.

«I thought, that's got to be a joke,» says Stan Woosley, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Observations of galaxies today cast a different doubt on black hole dark matter, reports Timothy Brandt, an astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

This feat marks the first time a neural network program has successfully identified new exoplanets in Kepler data, Jessie Dotson, an astrophysicist at NASA's Ames Research Center said at the teleconference.

Ingrid Stairs, an astrophysicist at the University of British Columbia not involved with LIGO, says she and her colleagues were «bowled over by how beautiful it was.»

«Gravitational waves allow us to look at the universe not just with light but with gravity,» says Shane Larson, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill..

On August 21, Des Jardins, an astrophysicist at Montana State University in Bozeman, will help broadcast the first livestream of a total solar eclipse from the edge of space.

«For years we have used data from U.S. and European missions,» says eXTP Project Manager Lu Fangjun, an astrophysicist at the CAS Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing.

Chinese scientists «are becoming leaders in the field of x-ray astrophysics,» says Andrea Santangelo, an astrophysicist at the University of Tübingen in Germany and eXTP's international coordinator.

«We call these «failed supernovae,»» says Stan Woosley, an astrophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who has modeled the process.

«It's intriguing, but it's not something I'm going to lose sleep over,» says Stacy McGaugh, an astrophysicist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

We got a value higher than the CMB measurement, but we need more systems to be really sure that something is amiss with the standard model of cosmology,» says Thomas Collett, an astrophysicist at the University of Portsmouth and a co-author on the new Astrophysical Journal paper.

«We call it the coronal heating problem,» says Jonathan Cirtain, an astrophysicist at NASA's Marshall Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. «Why is the surface of the sun 6,000 Kelvin while the corona is 7 million Kelvin?»

Danchi, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is running simulations for the Fourier - Kelvin Stellar Interferometer, a proposed space mission that could lay the groundwork for the search for Earth - like worlds in the next decade.

«I was hoping to see marbles everywhere,» says Lisse, an astrophysicist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.

«The last frontier for fundamental physics is quantum gravity,» says Janna Levin, an astrophysicist at Columbia University's Barnard College.

«To produce powerful jets, black holes must feed on the same material that the galaxy uses to make new stars,» said Michael McDonald, an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and coauthor on the paper.

«Once it finds a potentially interesting source, all the other instruments will be zoomed in that direction,» says Zhang Shuangnan, an astrophysicist at the CAS's Institute of High Energy Physics in Beijing, who is leading the mission.