Sentences with phrase «at infrared wavelengths»

«Laser guide star systems» vastly improve the sensitivity and resolution of observations at infrared wavelengths.

The researchers will use the probe, which will measure radiation at infrared wavelengths, to study the evolution of galaxies.

The warm dust in debris disks is easy to detect at infrared wavelengths, but estimating the gas content of disks is a much greater challenge.

These images must be false - color because people can't see anything at infrared wavelengths.

The surface tries to maintain energy balance in part by emitting its own radiation, which is primarily at the infrared wavelengths characteristic of the earth's temperature.

That will make observing at infrared wavelengths more challenging because infrared is absorbed by moisture in the atmosphere and light will have more atmosphere to travel through to get to a lower observatory.

Besides, different surfaces radiate different amounts of heat at infrared wavelengths owing to a material characteristic known as emissivity.

A complete survey of the sky at infrared wavelengths made during the early 1980s by an unmanned orbiting observatory, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), revealed a large number of dense dust clouds in the Milky Way.

Only 7.2 light - years from Earth, it is the coldest known object outside of our solar system and is just barely visible at infrared wavelengths with the largest ground - based telescopes.

Many distant quasars — luminous galaxies, thought to be powered by large central black holes — are known to contain warm dust, which glows at infrared wavelengths.

A propane burner heats a stainless steel chamber, which radiates the thermal energy at infrared wavelengths, shooting the interior temperature as high as 500 degrees Fahrenheit to heat the bird evenly.

Abstract: Debris discs are typically revealed through excess emission at infrared wavelengths.

From the light emitted by the planet's atmosphere at infrared wavelengths, beyond the visible region, it's possible to identify the spectral fingerprints of water and some other important molecules.

Whereas the newly discovered southern hot spot (seen at infrared wavelengths by instruments on the Juno probe now orbiting Jupiter) pulses once every 9 to 11 minutes, the northern x-ray hot spot has, in the past, been observed pulsing at rates of once every 12 minutes, once every 26 minutes, and once every 40 to 45 minutes.

This is the largest patch of sky ever imaged to these depths at infrared wavelengths.

During the coming eclipse, one major effort will use a US National Science Foundation Gulfstream V plane to probe magnetic flows in the solar corona at infrared wavelengths, which can be difficult to measure from the ground (see «Day of darkness»).

Stefan Gillessen and Reinhard Genzel of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, and their colleagues used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile to observe the Milky Way's center at infrared wavelengths, which penetrate the thick dust between it and us.

«A much more likely interpretation is that this is a star that has an infrared excess,» she says, noting that dust surrounding a star can absorb visible light and reemit it in at infrared wavelengths.

The so - called High Definition Space Telescope would complement the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is due for launch in 2018 and will observe the universe at infrared wavelengths.

Observations of a nearby star at infrared wavelengths may capture the ongoing birth of a planet.

TPV operates on the same principle as solar cells in wide use today, but converts photons at infrared wavelengths rather than those in the visible spectrum.

By weaving some quantum wizardry, Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A * STAR) researchers have achieved something that appears to be a contradiction in terms — using visible light to perform spectroscopy at infrared wavelengths.

Venus Express has charted the first map of Venus» southern hemisphere at infrared wavelengths.

Hubble observed the Lagoon Nebula not only in visible light but also at infrared wavelengths.

Through NASA's partnership in the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, the team observed the comet at infrared wavelengths a few days after Lovejoy passed its perihelion — or closest point to the sun.

They also coated a porous gold film - which has a plasmonic response at infrared wavelengths - in CTAC and used it as the substrate.

The idea is that a technological civilisation capable of building megastructures that collect all the energy radiated by a star would produce thermal leakage at infrared wavelengths.

This is perhaps the most extensively observed example of a probable Fe IIb type nova at the infrared wavelengths.

The star Gl 876, some fifteen light years away, is not a brown dwarf, but this M - dwarf is only 1.24 percent as luminous as the Sun, with most of its energy being released at infrared wavelengths.

Some Seyfert galaxies have narrow emission lines instead of broad emission lines and are bright at infrared wavelengths.

WISE 1828 +2650 was discovered in 2011 from data collected by NASA's 40 cm (16 in) Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope at infrared wavelength.

Launched on Jan. 25, 1983, the Earth - orbiting observatory mapped the sky for 10 months at infrared wavelengths above the interference of Earth's atmosphere.

The energy we get from the sun must be radiated away [at infrared wavelengths], i.e. at a higher temperature if the incoming solar energy increases.

Huang, W.J. Wiscombe, and A.J. Baran, 2003: Use of circular cylinders as surrogates for hexagonal pristine ice crystals in scattering calculations at infrared wavelengths.

«This new surface, however, stayed 11 degrees or more colder than an existing state - of - the - art white roof nearby because it absorbs only 3 per cent of incident sunlight while simultaneously strongly radiating heat at infrared wavelengths that are not absorbed by the atmosphere,» said Emeritus Professor Geoff Smith from the university.

Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), U.S. - U.K. - Netherlands satellite launched in 1983 that was the first space observatory to map the entire sky at infrared wavelengths.

Increase of «greenhouse» gases such as CO2 has little effect on incoming sunlight but makes the atmosphere more opaque at infrared wavelengths, causing infrared (heat) radiation to space to emerge from higher, colder levels, which thus reduces infrared radiation to space.

But they did heat up the dust, causing it to radiate at infrared wavelengths.

However, by observing at infrared wavelengths, telescopes such as ESO's VISTA can peer through the dust and reveal the star formation activity within.

However, ground - based telescopic observations at infrared wavelengths have not yet detected the planet.

Most of its member stars are hidden by dust or by the glare of the nebula but are visible at infrared wavelengths.

Sunlight makes this region glow at infrared wavelengths, but Keck II revealed dark bands running parallel to Saturn's equator.

This was necessary because if the telescope were not cooled down, its own thermal radiation at infrared wavelengths would swamp the much fainter radiation from astronomical objects.

Cool stars radiate more of their energy at infrared wavelengths, hot stars more in the ultraviolet.

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