Sentences with phrase «brighter than the signal»

«The biggest challenge is that this weak radiation from the early universe is obscured by the radio emission from our own Milky Way galaxy, which is about a million times brighter than the signal itself, so you have to have very carefully calibrated data to see it,» said Hallinan.

Not exact matches

But the gamma - ray signals produced by the August collision were 10,000 times less bright than those seen in other detected short gamma - ray bursts.

The technology is advancing to the point in which we can have a much better understanding of how the brain works comprehensively, rather than just focusing on neurons because their electrical signals make them appear brighter when imaging the brain.»

Three images, left to right, of the same thundercloud depict a less - than -10-milliseconds-long sequence of events: (left) formation within the cloud of a small channel, or «leader,» of electrical conductivity (yellow line) with weak emission of radio signals (ripples), to (middle) a burst of both dark lightning (pink) and radio waves (larger ripples), to (right) a discharge of bright lightning and more radio waves.

«We didn't expect a signal that bright, so we came up with the name QUASR, inspired by quasars, the extremely luminous celestial objects that can be a trillion times brighter than the sun,» Meagher said.

Such radio traffic could be readily apparent On the earth, for example, a new radar system employed with the telescope at the Arecibo Observatory for planetary studies emits a narrow - bandwidth signal that, if it were detected from another star, would be between a million and 10 billion times brighter than the sun at the same frequency.

This amplifies the positive signal up to 10 times brighter than a negative signal.

Any radio signal we send would be detectable over interstellar distances if it is more than about 1 percent as bright as the sun at the same frequency.

Simple enough for field labs and handheld devices, QUASR's positive signal is 10 times brighter than a negative signal.

For example, the signal from your cell phone measured one kilometer away is five million billion times stronger than the radio signals received from a bright quasar!

For such bright standard stars with negligible background signal, a simple correction algorithm with an accuracy of better than 0.1 % is derived, which eliminates the need to execute the CTE correction code for the complete image.

The brief gamma - ray burst — lasting less than two seconds and of a type known as a «short» gamma - ray burst — occurred more than 10 times closer to Earth than any other whose distance was known, but was unexpectedly weak; the ultraviolet and optical signals were oddly bright and faded fast.

Direct injection of plasmids for Antares or firefly luciferase into mouse livers followed by i.v. injection of furimazine or luciferin 24 hours later demonstrated a more than 2-fold brighter signal from Antares as compared to Fluc in this model.

These dynamic new paintings and drawings embrace a brighter palette than the artist has used in over a decade, but, more importantly, they signal a shift in his working methods.