Sentences with phrase «detected by the radio»

But if astronomers knew the rate at which hydronium converts to water, then they could estimate the amount of water in the clouds by measuring hydronium, which can be detected by radio telescopes.
His team has shown that the brightest regions detected by the radio telescopes match up with the coldest areas on Mercury, where ice can exist on the surface.
FRBs were detected by the radio telescope at Parkes on March 1, 9 and 11.
If a radio signal is absorbed and converted to heat it can't be detected by a radio, but a radio signal doesn't need to be absorbed to be blocked from being detected by radio.

Not exact matches

Indeed, the radio - telescope at Jodrell Bank can detect «radio» vibrations from exceedingly distant stars whose light - vibrations can not be received at all by any optical telescope in the world.
Rampadarath explains: «Comparing the VLA images at radio wavelengths to Chandra's X-ray observations and the hydrogen - emission detected by Hubble, shows that features are not only connected, but that the radio outflows are in fact the progenitors of the structures seen by Chandra and Hubble.
McGuire et al. used radio astronomy to detect rotational transitions of benzonitrile emitted from a well - known nearby cloud of interstellar gas (see the Perspective by Joblin and Cernicharo).
A class of odd radio bursts first detected by the Parkes telescope years ago came from an advanced civilization — if advanced means people on Earth so eager for a microwaved meal they open the oven before the beep.
Discovery of the gamma - ray «bang» from FRB 131104, the first non-radio counterpart to any FRB, was made possible by NASA's Earth - orbiting Swift satellite, which was observing the exact part of the sky where FRB 131104 occurred as the burst was detected by the Parkes Observatory radio telescope in Parkes, Australia.
The sudden slowdown should be accompanied by a distinctive pattern of radio signals and particle flows, but detecting it was no simple matter.
They are detected from Earth by the beams of radio waves that emanate from their magnetic poles and sweep across space as the pulsar rotates.
This beautiful structure, unobserved in visible light but detected by the NSF's recently refurbished and re-dedicated Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, has been produced by powerful events over roughly the last 10,000 years.
Over time, that light's wavelength was stretched to several meters by the expansion of the universe, before being detected on Earth as radio waves.
They detected the absorption of radio waves by gas clouds in front of bright radio sources.
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.
I borrowed one that could detect signals from 100 kilohertz (kHz), just below the frequency of long - wave radio stations, up to 3 gigahertz (GHz), somewhat above the 2.4 GHz portion of the spectrum used by Wi - Fi connections (see «Radio Ways,» beradio stations, up to 3 gigahertz (GHz), somewhat above the 2.4 GHz portion of the spectrum used by Wi - Fi connections (see «Radio Ways,» beRadio Ways,» below).
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.
As the most abundant element in the Universe and the raw fuel for creating stars, hydrogen is used by radio astronomers to detect and understand the makeup of other galaxies.
«The signals are not only weak, but they appear at radio frequencies that are used by communication devices and radars, which generate signals billions of times stronger than the cosmic ones that we are trying to detect
«Not only did we detect radio signals emitted by distant galaxies when the Universe was three billion years younger, but their gas reservoirs turned out to be unexpectedly large, about 10 times larger than the mass of hydrogen in our Milky Way.
These after - death planets can be detected because their gravitational pull alters the times of arrival of radio pulses from the neutron star, or «pulsar», that otherwise pass us by extremely regularly.
Mysterious radio signals detected by the Parkes telescope appear to come from an advanced civilization in the Milky Way.
The telescope detects radio waves that have been emitted by neutral hydrogen atoms.
RIDDLE ME THIS In 2015, scientists discovered that some of the mysterious radio signals detected by the Parkes telescope, in Australia, originate on Earth.
The science team, led by chemist Brett McGuire at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, detected this molecule's telltale radio signature coming from a nearby star - forming nebula known as the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1 (TCM - 1), which is about 430 light - years from ERadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, detected this molecule's telltale radio signature coming from a nearby star - forming nebula known as the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1 (TCM - 1), which is about 430 light - years from Eradio signature coming from a nearby star - forming nebula known as the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1 (TCM - 1), which is about 430 light - years from Earth.
An international team of astronomers led by Paulo Freire of the Jodrell Bank Observatory at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, detected the gas by observing 15 millisecond pulsars — compact, rapidly spinning stars that emit bursts of radio waves with clockwork precision.
Its dishes collect wavelengths about a millimeter or less — much shorter than those detected by traditional radio telescopes.
NASA's Fermi telescope has found the first pulsar that can be detected only by the gamma rays it emits — and not by lower - energy radio waves characteristic of most pulsars.
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.
Previous FRBs were detected at radio frequencies that match those used by cell phones, Wi - Fi, and similar devices.
When a patient is having a severe stroke, the brain's fluids will change, producing an asymmetry in the radio waves detected by the VIPS device.
It can detect the presence of people on the other side of a barrier by distortions to the reflected radio waves caused by their breathing or heartbeat.
That is the claim being made by a group of scientists in Italy and Sweden, who have shown how a radio beam can be twisted, and the resulting vortex detected with distant antennas.
One physicist who had faith in Maxwell, or at least in his equations, was Hertz, who performed experiments in his lab in Karlsruhe, Germany, that successfully produced and detected radio waves, eventually to be exploited by propagandists to spread a lot of illogical nonsense on talk radio.
Even better, blue or red shifts could be measured for the large clouds of hydrogen gas detected across the Milky Way by radio telescopes.
Astronomers using the ALMA radio telescope detected that the supersonic jet and the accretion disk survives the ultraviolet radiation generated by the birth of a massive star.
In contrast, high - power and persistent METI projects could have detectable volumes greater than the radio leakage, and would have a greater probability of being detected by any extraterrestrial watchers.
The team of researchers used measurements of radio emissions, taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in the desert of northern Chile, starting in 2015, to detect and map signs of cold gas in the Phoenix cluster.
It was detected by the RATAN - 600 radio telescope in Russia that is operated by the Russian Academy of Science.
Only a handful of these rapid, millisecond - duration events, known as «fast radio bursts» (FRBs), had been detected previously, all of them by a single instrument — the Parkes Observatory in Australia.
That means if an FRB is detected by any of the world's radio telescopes, Vandenbroucke and his team can analyze IceCube data for that region of the sky at the time the radio pulse was detected.
Astronomers are able to use radio telescopes to detect the characteristic 21 - centimeter radiation emitted naturally by neutral atomic hydrogen.
The phenomena, known as fast radio bursts or FRBs, were first detected in 2007 by astronomers scouring archival data from Australia's Parkes Telescope, a 64 - meter diameter dish best known for its role receiving live televison images from the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969.
By detecting this pulsar in the radio spectrum, astronomers may now follow its evolution with greater ease and flexibility than with X-ray telescopes on satellites, study the pulsar emission mechanisms, and also characterize the dynamic interstellar medium between the Earth and the pulsar.
In addition, because the atoms emit at a very specific wavelength, the scientists could detect the galaxy's rotation by tuning the telescopes» radio receivers to receive radio waves whose length has been changed by Doppler shifting.
Radio astronomers revealed that the first gamma - ray burster ever detected at radio wavelengths has surprised them by its erratic behaRadio astronomers revealed that the first gamma - ray burster ever detected at radio wavelengths has surprised them by its erratic beharadio wavelengths has surprised them by its erratic behavior.
With a signal - to - noise ratio of 411, that event was the brightest fast radio burst detected so far by quite a wide margin.
ALMA detected radio waves with a wavelength of one millimeter emitted by cold molecular gas and dust, the ingredients of stars and planets, with a resolution of 23 milliarcseconds, which surpasses the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope.
A thick layer of interstellar dust obscures much of the Galaxy from scrutiny by optical telescopes, and astronomers can determine its large - scale structure only with the aid of radio and infrared telescopes, which can detect the forms of radiation that penetrate the obscuring matter.
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.
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