Sentences with phrase «from lensing»

«Tracking Shot» is a top of month featurette here on IONCINEMA.com that looks at the projects that are moments away from lensing.

Fiennes's aggressive militarization of the material extends to hiring the great DP Barry Ackroyd, fresh from lensing combat films for Kathryn Bigelow and Paul Greengrass, to lend the film a vérité texture that, ironically enough, comes over a little dated; on another note, it's hard to gauge how aware Fiennes's is of tonal resemblances between his treatment and Richard Loncraine's Third Reich - flavored «Richard III.»

In that case, astronomers might not have to settle for indirect evidence from lensing.

Both «mysterious» flashes occur at the exact same time as the strobes on the plane, the most likely explination (Okham's Razor) being a reflection from the lense.

By analyzing slight delays in the light from these lensed quasars, astronomers arrived a new estimate of the Hubble constant — the rate of expansion of the universe.

The astronomers nicknamed the supernova Refsdal in honor of Norwegian astronomer Sjur Refsdal, who, in 1964, first proposed using time - delayed images from a lensed supernova to study the expansion of the universe.

Quickly grabbing my camera, I aimed up and her disturbing face was an inch from the lense.

Not exact matches

A newly released image from NASA Hubble telescope reveals that a huge cluster of galaxies called Abell 370, has an array of galaxies guarding it and is useful in studying far - flung galaxies by its gravitational lensing property.

The shared power makes so much sense to me and feel now like I am watching my doll from a different lense!

Dark Energy Survey year 1 results: Cosmological constraints from galaxy clustering and weak lensing.

Method: Euclid will measure gravitational lensing, where light from far - off objects bends around a massive body (a regular star or cluster of dark matter), to determine dark matter's distribution.

«With three lensed quasars — cosmic beacons emanating from massive black holes in the centers of galaxies — collaborators and I measured the expansion rate to 3.8 percent precision.

But Das and his colleagues have used a new type of mathematical analysis to reveal for the first time the distinctive distortions from gravitational lensing in the CMB.

Ellis, his PhD student Dan Stark and their colleagues trained one of the world's biggest telescopes, the Keck 2 atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, to scan light grazing massive clusters of closer galaxies [see image above], which focused the light coming from more ancient galaxies behind them and magnified it 20 times in a process called gravitational lensing.

Aimed at the centre of the galaxy, it would be able to distinguish the lensing effect of a black hole from that of a naked singularity.

Supplementary evidence comes from studies of gravitational lensing.

That increase in light, rather than the dip Kruse thought he'd see, was the white dwarf bending and magnifying light from its more distant neighbor through gravitational lensing, like a magnifying glass.

Working with UW astronomer Eric Agol, doctoral student Ethan Kruse has confirmed the first «self - lensing» binary star system — one in which the mass of the closer star can be measured by how powerfully it magnifies light from its more distant companion star.

«Where does the light come from that allows rogue planets to be seen, either directly or via gravitational lensing?»

Using archival data from the Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH), Toft and his team were able to determine the stellar mass, star - formation rate, and the ages of the stars.

This artist's impression shows how photons from the early universe are deflected by the gravitational lensing effect of massive cosmic structures as they travel across the universe.

In the new study, the scientists were on a hunt for the kind of polarized light spawned by matter in a process called gravitational lensing, where the gravitational pull from knots of matter distorts the path of light.

The study led by Donahue looked at far - ultraviolet light from a variety of massive elliptical galaxies found in the Cluster Lensing And Supernova Survey with Hubble (CLASH), which contains elliptical galaxies in the distant universe.

The huge mass of the cluster distorts and magnifies the light from galaxies that lie behind it due to an effect called gravitational lensing.

Data gathered from the previous galaxy clusters were studied by teams all over the world, enabling them to make important discoveries, among them galaxies that existed only hundreds of million years after the Big Bang heic1523 and the first predicted appearance of a gravitationally lensed supernova heic1525.

His proposed observation requires monitoring the X-ray emissions from gravitationally lensed quasars.

«This important result shows the power of weak lensing studies from space to track down dark energy,» says Yun Wang, a cosmologist at the University of Oklahoma, Norman.

This is a subtle variant of weak gravitational lensing, in which the light emitted from distant galaxies is slightly warped by the gravitational effect of large amounts of matter, such as galaxy clusters.

The lensing galaxy has a spectroscopic redshift of z = 0.79 (which means it's 7.0 billion light - years away, Note 1) based on data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

But with internal light emitters excited from the bottom surface, the external light never comes in contact with the sample, so lensing effects are negated, as is the need for microfluidics.

My focus is the observational study of gravitationally lensed quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with adaptive optics.

Right: the data from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array showing what the source looks like after passage through the lensing galaxy.

We used early data from the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey to demonstrate that wide - area submillimeter surveys can simply and easily detect strong gravitational lensing events, with close to 100 % efficiency.

Using data from the Herschel Space Telescope, Negrello et al. (p. 800) showed that by searching for the brightest sources in a wide enough area in the sky it was possible to detect gravitationally lensed submillimeter galaxies with nearly full efficiency.

Light from distant galaxies passing through those regions also gets warped, making the galaxies appear streaked and smeared in telescope images, a technique known as weak gravitational lensing.

For instance, look at the recent use of the Cosmic Evolution Survey, using the Hubble Space Telescope to study gravitational lensings [in which the gravitational pull of galaxies and dark matter bends the light from more distant objects] in an area of the sky nine times the apparent surface area of the full moon.

Black holes, gravitational lensing and even, in a way, the expansion of the universe emerged from Einstein's equations before any astronomer observed them.

«While studying the supernova, we realised that the galaxy in which it exploded is already known to be a galaxy that is being lensed by the cluster,» explains Steve Rodney, co-author, from the University of South Carolina.

The best way to work out where the dark matter lies is through gravitational lensing — the distortion of the Universe's fabric by gravity, which deflects the light coming from distant galaxies far beyond the dark matter.

The cluster is so massive that its powerful gravity bends the light from galaxies far behind it, making background objects appear larger and brighter in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.

Gravitational lensing happens when huge collections of matter — such as those found in galaxy clusters — warp the space - time around them so that the light from objects behind the clusters takes a curved path.

The cosmic optical illusion was due to the mass of a single galaxy within the cluster warping and magnifying the light from the distant stellar explosion in a process known as gravitational lensing [4].

[4] Gravitational lensing magnifies the light from fainter, background objects, allowing Hubble to spy galaxies it would otherwise not be able to detect.

From the gravitational lensing effect, these groups turn out to contain around 30 times more dark than visible matter.

Astronomers might even spot free - floating planets through gravitational lensing, in which the planet's gravity magnifies light from a background star.

«They are a testament not only to the sensitivity of the Dark Energy Camera, but also to the rigorous work by our lensing team to understand its sensitivity so well that we can get exacting results from it.»

The cluster is so massive that it magnifies the light from faraway galaxies behind it due to a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, where the curvature of space acts like a giant funhouse mirror to stretch and brighten distant objects.

In addition to Gruen, who led the weak lensing working group, and Wechsler, whose group provided realistic simulations of the survey critical to testing several aspects of the cosmological analysis, a large number of KIPAC scientists, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and alumni have made crucial contributions to DES — from building the instrument to developing theory and simulations and analyzing the data.

Both the galaxy and the galaxy cluster are acting like a giant «cosmic lens,» bending and magnifying light from the supernova behind it, an effect called gravitational lensing.

To explain the unique, four - up projection, the scientists determined a galaxy cluster and one of its massive elliptical members are gravitationally bending and magnifying the light from the supernova behind it, through an effect called gravitational lensing.