Sentences with phrase «collaboration of astronomers»

A cosmic phenomenon on a colossal scale, resulting from the acceleration of a gas cloud by a black hole and its reacceleration by the shock waves from the merging of two galaxy clusters, has been observed, described and interpreted by an international collaboration of astronomers that included three Brazilians: Felipe Andrade - Santos, Vinicius Moris Placco, and Rafael Miloni Santucci.

By measuring the CMB polarization data provided by POLARBEAR, a collaboration of astronomers working on a telescope in the high - altitude desert of northern Chile designed specifically to detect «B - mode» polarization, the UC San Diego astrophysicists discovered weak gravitational lensing in their data that, they conclude, permit astronomers to make detailed maps of the structure of the universe, constrain estimates of neutrino mass and provide a firm test for general relativity.

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On human time scales, that's a long time,» Duncan Brown, an astronomer at Syracuse University who's a member of the LIGO research collaboration, previously told Business Insider.

Several hours later, a team of astronomers known as the ROTSE (Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment) collaboration, led by Carl Akerlof of the University of Michigan, reported that the visible - light counterpart of the burst was also seen in the images taken with a small, robotic telescope operated by their team, starting only 22 seconds after the burst.

She accepted an offer from a group of astronomers at Berkeley, part of a collaboration studying a rare type of supernova that some believe holds the key to measuring the expansion of the universe.

For the past two years, a group calling itself the MACHO collaboration, which includes astronomers in the US, Australia and Britain, has monitored the brightness of stars in the central «bulge» of our Galaxy and in a satellite galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud.

In a joint collaboration between the California Institute of Technology and the University of California, Riverside, astronomers have performed an extensive study of the properties of galaxies within filaments formed at different times during the age of the universe.

And his adviser had set up a collaboration to search for possible neutron - star mergers as LIGO detected gravitational waves and gave astronomers a rough estimate of where in the sky they seemed to be coming from.

In 2014, the international collaboration of scientists known as the Pale Red Dot — named in homage to Carl Sagan, who described Earth as a Pale Blue Dot — banded together after astronomers noticed the periodic signal of a possible planet coming from the star every 11.2 days.

The road to progress is typically strewn with false starts, wrong turns and other miscues — as a group of astronomers and physicists known as the BICEP2 collaboration recently found out.

Thirty years later — the equivalent of one Saturn year, in other words, the time the planet takes to go all the way around the Sun — and over more than six consecutive years, researchers in the UPV / EHU's Planetary Sciences Group, in collaboration with astronomers from various countries, were able to observe Saturn's northern polar region in detail once again and confirmed that the hexagon continued in place.

Access to these observatories by astronomers outside a given private collaboration is sometimes possible via financial contributions or time - exchange programs negotiated by universities (e.g., Swinburne University, Yale, and the Australian National University) or agencies, either domestic (National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NASA], National Optical Astronomy Observatory [NOAO]-RRB- or foreign (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan / Subaru Telescope).

According to some sources, the addition of partners has resulted in guaranteed time observations at 37.5 percent for the United States and Canada, 37.5 percent for ESO member states, and 25 percent for East Asia (Japan, Korea, and Taiwan), and debates have surrounded the possibility of capping open - access time to astronomers outside the collaboration at around 3 percent.

The Hubble constant allows astronomers to measure the scale and age of the universe and measure the distance to the most remote objects we can see, said Chris Fassnacht, a physics professor at UC Davis and a member of the international H0LiCOW (H0 Lenses in COSMOGRAIL's Wellspring) collaboration, which carried out the work.

The 1970's marked a time of increased collaboration between the Algonquin Observatory radio astronomers and the researchers at the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics.

The discovery, jointly announced by a team of scientists from the University of Cambridge and astronomers associated with the Dark Energy Survey — a multinational collaboration of research institutes in the U.S. and Europe — could help scientists unravel the mysterious dark matter that constitutes over 84 percent of all matter in the universe.

The Caltech team reporting on this discovery consists of Zitrin, Ellis, and Belli who lead an international collaboration involving astronomers at Yale and the University of Arizona, and fellow European researchers from Leiden University in the Netherlands and the University of Durham and the Univeristy College London in England.

The result of a collaboration between ESO and international partners, ALMA will detect millimetre and sub-millimetre radiation, allowing astronomers to observe some of the coldest and most distant objects in the Universe with much better resolution and sensitivity than is presently possible (Mignone & Pierce - Price, 2010).

The aim of the visit was to stimulate collaborations between professional and amateur astronomers in light of the large sky surveys that will come online in the next decade.

Despite these observational challenges, astronomers have successfully spotted many thousands of such microlensing events as part of various comprehensive deep - sky surveys during the last couple decades which have monitored hundreds of millions of stars for many years at a time, like the MACHO Collaboration project, the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics, or MOA, and the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, or OGLE.

Data for COSMOS - 1908 were collected as part of the MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) survey, a large Keck Observatory project that Shapley and Sanders have carried out in collaboration with astronomers at UC Berkeley, UC Riverside and UCSD.

We are delighted by Sal's success and the success of all our talented undergraduate researchers and look forward to the discoveries they will make in continued collaboration with Carnegie astronomers and in their future careers.»

In collaboration with EURASTER, a group of amateur and professional astronomers, the team successfully motivated ~ 50 observers to watch the event.

The exhibition also features First Sounds (2012), a piece Tang created in collaboration with astronomer Mark Whittle, who used computer calculations rooted in the Cosmic Microwave Background data to recreate the fundamental tone and higher harmonics of the sound of the early universe.

McElheny saw them as a kind of «Pop image of the Big Bang» and in an extensive collaboration with the astronomer David H Weinberg, went on to create models that depict various alternative interpretations of this event.

Many of her installations have been the result of intensive research and collaboration with specialists as diverse as astronomers, nanotechnologists, and firework manufacturers.