Sentences with phrase «collecting area»
However, a large collecting area is not enough to make good interpretations of these data.
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Other collecting areas include the personal papers of select curators, artists, and artist - run initiatives.
The latter category is a new collecting area for the Fine Arts Museums, but the quality of the gift puts it in an exalted position.
«Without the huge collecting area of Keck II's 10 - meter mirror, we wouldn't be able to achieve our goals so swiftly.»
With instruments capturing ultraviolet, optical and infrared light, the combined collecting area of the telescope's 492 mirror segments will be more than two orders of magnitude larger than Hubble's.
Its huge collecting area allows us to see these incredibly small energies that we're trying to study.
Another international project, the International X-ray Observatory, would deploy a multi-part X-ray mirror with about 20 times more collecting area than any existing X-ray observatory.
The difference between existing VLBI facilities and the EHT is the sheer geographical scope of the EHT project, its extension to the shortest observing wavelengths, and addition of the unprecedented collecting area enabled by ALMA.
A newly announced $ 5.8 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation will allow the HERA team to increase the number of antennas in the array from 240 to 350, boosting the telescope's collecting area by almost 50 percent, according to a statement from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), home to scientists in the HERA collaboration.
The team — John Nance, John Armstrong, George Cody, Marilyn Fogel, and Robert Hazen — collected samples from Calvert Cliffs, along the shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay, a popular fossil collecting area.
«The technique is limited by the light collecting power and wavelength range of the telescope, and even with the incredible collecting area of the Keck mirror on the high, dry summit of Mauna Kea we can basically only analyze hot planets that are orbiting bright stars.
A larger light - collecting area lets you see fainter and hence more distant objects.
Co-located primarily in South Africa and Western Australia, the SKA will be a collection of hundreds of thousands of radio antennas with a combined collecting area equivalent to approximately one million square metres, or one square kilometre.
In April 2013 Mariolina became a member of the Global Executive Committee, formulating strategic departmental plans and leading client initiatives in this key collecting area of Europe.
One of the Dallas Museum of Art's strongest collecting areas is art made after World War II, but because the DMA lacks permanent gallery space for those holdings, shows like Never Enough: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art represent a relatively rare chance to dive into them.
Both those companies are global operations that conduct auctions and private sales across a wide range of locations and interconnected collecting areas.
The firm notes that its design «costs 400 times less per collected area than conventional mirrors, can withstand 100 m.p.h. winds, and can protect the mirror surface and receiver from rain, insects, and dirt,» issues that can significantly reduce the productivity of solar cells.
Because millimeter waves can penetrate dust that blocks visible light, ALMA's large collecting area «will make it much easier to detect very faint objects at the fringes of the universe», says Mangum.
The sheer size of the GBT's collecting area allows it to detect faint radio waves from distant celestial objects.
James Webb, however, will mainly focus on infrared wavelengths, and because the mirrors have a six and a quarter (6.25) times more collecting area than Hubble it will be able to see way further into the universe than Hubble ever could.
HDST will make the first maps of the nearly invisible material permeating the cosmic web and fueling the growth of galaxies, thanks to its unprecedented collecting area, its 100 × gain in ultraviolet sensitivity over Hubble, and its novel multiplexed instrument modes.
We needed the huge collecting area of Keck II, which captures a plentiful amount of photons in a very short time.»
Hubble's successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, will sport a mirror nearly three times the diameter and seven times the collecting area of Hubble's.
Now this speed of increase in the collecting area of radio telescopes on Earth is roughly two orders of magnitude per century....
Roughly 3,000 radio dishes — having a combined total surface equal to a light - collecting area of about a square kilometer — will be spread across vast distances to offer a resolution akin to a single dish encompassing the whole span.
... And there should be some big bubbles out there that we should be able to see now with this kind of collecting area.»
The array comprises dishes in 10 locations from Hawaii to Puerto Rico, simulating a radio telescope with a collecting area thousands of kilometers wide.
The idea of SKA is to create a radiotelescope with a collecting area of 1 square kilometer.
The effective signal - collecting area of the system would be hundreds of times the area of any existing radio telescope, and it would be capable of detecting even relatively weak signals such as television transmissions from civilizations several hundred light - years away.
The James Webb Space Telescope, slated for a 2013 launch, will boast a 20 - foot mirror capable of providing seven times the light - collecting area of Hubble.
Thankfully, the Green Bank Telescope has over two acres of collecting area, meaning it can capture lots and lots of radio waves at once.
The Green Bank Telescope, dedicated in 2000, is the largest fully - steerable radio telescope in the world, with more than two acres of collecting area in its giant dish.
The Square Kilometre Array Design Studies is an international effort to investigate and develop technologies which will enable us to build an enormous radio astronomy telescope with a million square metres of collecting area.
«With a telescope that has 10 times the collecting area of every telescope ever built, you would be able to go down several thousand times fainter than the faintest thing you see today with those telescopes.»
These detectors require a large collecting area, because celestial X-ray sources are remote and therefore weak, and a high efficiency for detecting X-rays over the cosmic - ray - induced background radiation is needed.
Dr Roberto Gilmozzi: The Kecks are bigger as individual telescopes; the VLT however has twice as many telescopes and so the total collecting area of the VLT is larger than the total collecting area of the two Kecks.
XMM - Newton has the largest light - collecting area of any X-ray telescope — more than 120 square metres (1,300 square feet).
This will give TMT nine times the collecting area of today's largest optical telescopes and three times sharper images.
Such a telescope could have three times the diameter, 10 times the light - collecting area and 80 times the near - infrared sensitivity compared to existing telescopes, assuming that it used the adaptive optics technology which
Such a telescope could have three times the diameter, 10 times the light - collecting area and 80 times the near - infrared sensitivity compared to existing telescopes, assuming that it used the adaptive optics technology which eliminates the atmosphere's blur effect.
The JWST will be 100 times more powerful than the Hubble Telescope, with seven times the collecting area.
ALMA provides the means to achieve our objectives with both its high sensitivity of the collecting area for the detection of weak signals and the high spatial resolving power of its adaptable interferometer for imaging close multiple stars.
The team took advantage of the large collecting area and sensitivity of the Very Large Telescope (VLT), and a series of very long exposures, to detect the extremely faint fluorescent glow of the dark galaxies.