Sentences with phrase «fainter burst of light»

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But they can be detected by a special type of apparatus: a huge tank of liquid in which rare antineutrino collisions with atomic nuclei produce faint but measurable bursts of light.

Using the precise VLA position, researchers used the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii to make a visible - light image that identified a faint dwarf galaxy at the location of the bursts.

Quick follow - up observations undertaken with the 8.2 - m Antu instrument at European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in the Paranal and the 1.5 - meter Danish telescope at La Silla identified a faint, point - like object in visible light that was fading rapidly, the optical counterpart of the gamma - ray burst called the «afterglow» (Pedersen et al, 2000).