Sentences with phrase «detect faint»

Hammerheads cruise the seafloor in search of crabs, lobster, octopus, and fish, using special sensors on its head to detect faint electrical signals.

I did detect a faint citrusy scent, but it wasn't bothersome.

Their Slow Moving Objects survey, which lasted almost a decade, used progressively larger CCD cameras to detect faint objects moving slowly relative to background stars.

ALMA's light - gathering capabilities increase the EHT's ability to detect the faint light from the very center of our galaxy.

This is a particularly exciting band because it allows astronomers to detect faint signals of water in the nearby Universe.

To detect faint radio waves coming from 10 billion light years away in an extremely harsh environment at an altitude of 5000 meters, new breakthrough technologies are incorporated into ALMA by integrating high - efficiency receivers, high - speed computer, and high - precision antennas allowing high accuracy tracking.

We confirm the previously detected double ring structure peaking at 0.18» (~ 21 au) and 0.56» (~ 66 au), and marginally detect a faint third gap at 0.70» -0.73» (~ 82 - 85 au).

Independently, fluorescence telescopes detect the faint sky glow engendered by these air showers on dark clear moonless nights.

«The Keck and Hubble telescopes allow us to detect these faint planetary host stars and determine their properties.»

ALMA is a telescope suitable for analyzing molecules in galaxies because of: 1) a high sensitivity to detect faint radio signals; 2) a high fidelity imaging capability to image actual gas distributions; 3) the ability to observe wideband multiple wavelengths simultaneously, and high spatial resolution.

Since Lew Snyder and David Buhl discovered interstellar formaldehyde in 1969, astronomers have identified more than 150 molecules in deep space, mostly by using radio telescopes to detect the faint radiation the molecules emit.

Researchers from the IceCube project will place a string of Digital Optical Modules into this hole, which can detect the faint signal produced on the rare occasion when a neutrino collides directly with the nucleus of an atom in a molecule of ice.

Like Auger, TA also features batteries of specialized telescopes that on clear, moonless nights can detect the faint light, or fluorescence, produced by an extensive air shower.

Researchers hope to detect faint radiation emanating from a new laboratory version of a black hole event horizon

Perched atop ladders, the researchers examined the walls with oblique lights, specially designed to detect faint marks, and began to make out graceful, sweeping lines incised into the rock.

LISA is designed to detect faint gravity waves from extremely far away — gravitational shock waves that were emitted less than a trillionth of a second after the instant of creation.

The rodents were then scanned with the Rice lab's custom - built optical device to detect the faint emission signatures of as little as 100 picograms of nanotubes.

If you want to use the atom interferometer to detect faint gravitational waves from just after the big bang, you would have to put the interferometers in spacecraft (two or more) flying in precise formation around the sun.

Using ALMA's ability to detect the faint millimeter - wavelength «glow» emitted by gas molecules, Isella and his team discovered that there was also an appreciable dip in the amount of CO in the outer two dust gaps.

An international team of scientists has pushed the limits of radio astronomy to detect a faint signal emitted by hydrogen gas in a galaxy more than five billion light years away — almost double the previous record.

By using a system that receives light only from a certain angle, such devices could have an improved ability to detect faint targets.

It could also detect faint alien signals leaking into space, akin to those from airport radar or TV broadcast towers.

This array will, it is said, be able to detect the faintest energy emanating from distant stars — billions of light years from the earth.

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

From custom - made hand - held computers to instruments that can detect the faintest radioactivity from a piece of dust, the nuclear inspector's tool kit would make James Bond envious.

Detecting faint dust close to the dazzling central star requires high resolution observations with high contrast.

Still, detecting the faint dip was a challenge: Other cosmic sources, such as the Milky Way, emit radio waves at much higher levels, which must be accounted for.

Using the world's largest radio telescope, two astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia have detected the faint signal emitted by atomic hydrogen gas in galaxies three billion light years from Earth, breaking the previous record distance by 500 million light years.

They are nearly impossible to see relying on visible light, but with the infrared vision of NASA's WISE space telescope, researchers finally detected the faint glow of six Y dwarfs relatively close to our sun, within a distance of about 40 light - years.

By detecting the faint fluorescence and the particles that reach the ground, Auger should be able to pin down the energy and direction of the original cosmic ray.

In 2008, however, Lagrange took a second look at the data using new computational tools, and this time her team detected a faint dot in the northeastern part of the dust disk.

The Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) detected faint ultraviolet light from an aurora at the moon's south pole.

Together, the telescopes create a virtual dish 9000 kilometers wide that can detect the faintest radio emissions from distant galaxies.

Their algorithm does a better job of detecting the faint differences between those two smiles than people do.

But then Dawkins delivers the scientific punch line: a lucid explanation of the platypus's remarkable ability, embedded in its goofy Donald Duck appendage, to detect the faintest electrical signals generated by muscular twitches of shrimp and other prey buried in the mud.

Astronomers from MIT and ASU have detected faint radio signals coming from the Cosmic Dawn — the time when the first stars began to flicker on (Credit: CSIRO Australia)

Finally, we found that the reproducibility of the spectra of the detected faint companions is greatly improved when angular differential imaging is applied in addition to the spectral deconvolution.

Dr. Lockman explains how a radio telescope and arrays of radio telescopes work and the challenges of detecting the faint signals they are trying to analyze along with describing what can be gleaned from analyzing those signals.

Last March, when a group of astronomers announced that they had detected faint swirls in the sky that almost certainly reflected undulations in the shape of the early universe, experts agreed it could be one of the greatest cosmological discoveries of all time.

The dry climate and 16,500 - foot high altitude of the site in the Chilean Atacama Desert provides ALMA with the right conditions for detecting these faint signals from space.

It can detect the faintest ripples of light even from a great distance.

Not exact matches

The same thing happens with gravitational waves — by the time they reach us here on Earth they are so faint that they are nearly impossible to detect.

The characteristic features of the present age could of course be detected in former times as faint traces, so to speak, because man was always to some degree the inventor and active manipulator of his own situation and the creator of himself.

«51 In consequence, therefore, of all these principles, one can not detect in Hartshorne's doctrine of man even the faintest traces of despair of life's ultimate meaning, fear or perplexity in the face of death, moral vertigo, or denigration of the enduring value of our transient earthly life.

We can detect even the faintest cry during nap time, and have mastered new troubleshooting sequences (pacifier?

This 6.5 - meter mirror should enable it to detect even fainter (and therefore older) galaxies.

«Detecting pulsations in faint sources is challenging, because the X-ray data are not always collected with sufficiently high time - resolution to make the measurement,» he says.

It has detected galaxies 100 times fainter than in previous surveys, adding to an already richly observed field and deepening our understanding of galaxies across the ages.

The Navigator GPS Flight receiver was purposely designed to detect, acquire, and track faint GPS signals for NASA's MMS mission.

LIGHTEN UP Some of the faintest, most distant galaxies detected to date (arcs) appear in this Hubble Space Telescope image of the massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744.