Sentences with phrase «detects gamma ray bursts»

BeppoSAX is an Italian - Dutch satellite, launched late last year, that detects gamma ray bursts and provides precise sky positions to allow ground - based telescopes to observe them.

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NASA's Swift satellite has found the most distant gamma - ray burst ever detected.

The distance to the merger makes the source both the closest gravitational wave event detected so far and also one of the closest gamma - ray burst sources ever seen.

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.

«Swift's rapid response time enabled us to use it to rapidly search for and detect the electromagnetic counterpart of this gamma - ray burst after its detection by LIGO,» said Jamie Kennea, associate research professor of astronomy and astrophysics, the leader of the Swift Science Operations Team at Swift's Mission Operations Center, located at Penn State's University Park campus.

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Astronomers have detected one more clue to the origins of gamma - ray bursts, those highly energetic explosions that occur in distant galaxies.

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.

Optical telescopes swung into operation and detected a fading spot of ordinary light at the position of the gamma - ray burst.

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Astronomers are furiously searching for the source of a brief burst of gamma rays detected by NASA's Swift space telescope on Monday.

Swift can swivel towards gamma - ray bursts (GRBs) in less than a minute and has detected two short bursts since its launch in November 2004.

This all - sky coverage lets Fermi detect more gamma - ray bursts, and over a broader energy range, than any other mission.

But as she read excited messages from colleagues that a gamma ray burst had also been detected, «I realized this was a breakthrough event,» says Troja, an associate research scientist at the University of Maryland in College Park who works at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt in Maryland.

Swift lived up to its name on 17 January, when it detected a bright and relatively long - lasting gamma ray burst.

But astronomers may have pulled off an equally challenging feat: detecting the glimmer of a supernova explosion in the fading afterglow of a titanic gamma ray burst (GRB)-- one of the biggest type of explosions in all the cosmos.

On July 6, Lazzati's team of theorists had published a paper predicting that, contrary to earlier estimates by the astrophysics community, short gamma - ray bursts associated with the gravitational emission of binary neutron star coalescence could be detected — whether or not the gamma - ray burst was pointing at Earth.

Seconds later, a satellite detected a gamma - ray burst, and more than 70 observatories subsequently studied the aftermath in every wavelength.

If the jet is pointing towards the Earth, a burst of gamma - rays is detected.

On 6 April and 2 May 2005, Swift detected x-ray flares minutes after the onset of two gamma - ray bursts in the constellations Eridanus the River and Leo the Lion.

When gamma - ray bursts were first detected by military satellites in the 1960s, nobody knew where they came from.

In the wee hours of the morning of 19 March, astronomers detected from more than halfway across the universe a burst of gamma rays brighter than a hundred - billion suns — and aimed squarely at Earth.

Two seconds after the gravitational waves, orbiting telescopes detected a powerful, short gamma ray burst.

Reichart and Don Lamb of the University of Chicago predicted in a 2000 paper in the Astrophysical Journal that such faraway gamma - ray bursts could be detected.

In March, the satellite detected the brightest gamma - ray burst, which was visible to the human eye despite occurring billions of light - years away.

NASA's Swift satellite has found the most distant gamma - ray burst ever detected.

LIGO was the first to detect the signals as gravitational waves, before 70 observatories around the world joined in to watch the fireworks in the form of visible light, radio waves, X-rays and a gamma ray burst.

Although they did not find any dark GRBs that originated in the early universe (such as the subsequently discovered GRB 090423), the astronomers were able to estimate that ancient GRBs probably account for only around 0.2 to 0.7 per cent of all gamma - ray bursts detected since their initial discovery.

On March 31, 2011, scientists submitted a revised paper describing how they used a supercomputer to model the formation of short gamma - ray bursts (GRBs) that have been detected as lasting less than two seconds.

From the rest wavelength of the Lyman - alpha break (121.6 nm), the spectroscopic redshift of GRB 000131 was then determined to be 4.500 + / - 0.015, corresponding to a travel time of more than 90 percent of the age of the Universe and making GRB 000131 the most ancient and remote gamma - ray burst detected at the time — for which its age and distance could be calculated (Andersen et al, 2000).

On January 31, 2000, a brief burst of gamma rays was detected by an network of satellites (Ulysses, NEAR and Konus) via the InterPlanetary Network (Hurley et al, 2000).

GRB 090423 is not only the most distant gamma - ray burst ever detected, but it is also the most distant object ever detected in the universe overall (as of April 28, 2009).

On April 23, 2009, NASA's Swift satellite detected a 10 - second - long burst of gamma - rays from GRB 090423 in the western part (9:55:35 +18:9:37, J2000) of Constellation Leo — northwest of Eta and Alpha Leonis (Regulus), southwest of Gamma (Algieba) and Zeta (Adhafera) Leonis, south of Rasalas (Mu Leonis), and southeast of Algenubi (Epsilon Leonis), and northeast of Subra (Omicron Leogamma - rays from GRB 090423 in the western part (9:55:35 +18:9:37, J2000) of Constellation Leo — northwest of Eta and Alpha Leonis (Regulus), southwest of Gamma (Algieba) and Zeta (Adhafera) Leonis, south of Rasalas (Mu Leonis), and southeast of Algenubi (Epsilon Leonis), and northeast of Subra (Omicron LeoGamma (Algieba) and Zeta (Adhafera) Leonis, south of Rasalas (Mu Leonis), and southeast of Algenubi (Epsilon Leonis), and northeast of Subra (Omicron Leonis).

Roughly half of the GRBs detected by NASA's Swift satellite since its 2004 launch are «dark» gamma - ray bursts that are not seen in visible light (and so are virtually invisible to optical telescopes).

Although GRB 000131, like other gamma - ray bursts, appears to have taken place in a remote «early galaxy» (or «sub-galactic clumps» of stars) that is smaller than today's luminous galaxies, astronomers found it difficult to detect that extremely dim, sub-galactic clump of stars even with the Hubble Space Telescope, as the observed fading of the afterglow indicated that the maximum brightness of the gamma - ray emission was explosion was at least 10,000 times brighter than its host galaxy.

Around 4 p.m. PDT, the Swope Telescope — the oldest and smallest of a collection of four optical telescopes at Carnegie Observatories» Las Campanas Observatory in Chile — detected a bright optical counterpart to the gamma - ray burst and gravitational - wave signals, in a galaxy called NGC 4993.

A couple of seconds later, a brief burst of gamma rays were detected by an instrument aboard the Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telesgamma rays were detected by an instrument aboard the Fermi Gamma - ray Space TelesGamma - ray Space Telescope.