Sentences with phrase «how polarized its light»

«GPI not only sees the disk more clearly than previous instruments, it can also measure how polarized its light appears, which has proven crucial in under - standing its physical properties.»

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His research group was studying how the beetles used the polarized light patterns of the moon to stay on their paths, when one moonless night they made a surprising observation — the beetles maintained straight trajectories.

Since astronomers don't know much about how strongly galactic dust polarizes light, researchers involved in the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, or BICEP, experiment relied on whatever information they could get their hands on.

Flauger's analysis — which relies on scraping data from other Planck slides — found that BICEP researchers may have underestimated how strongly dust polarized the light.

The key lies in determining how that vestigial light is polarized — basically, how the light waves are oriented.

It's not clear how the bats discern the polarized light, but it may be related to the type or alignment of light - detecting pigments in their retinas, the team suggests.

Because electrons scatter polarized light more than non-polarized light, that observation will give the scientists a bead on what the electrons are doing, and by extension, what the solar wind is doing — how fast it flows, how hot it is and even where it comes from.

In a quest to understand how these uncommon light signals are produced in mantis shrimp, researchers from the Ecology of Vision Group based in the University of Bristol's School of Biological Sciences discovered that they use a polarizing structure unlike anything ever seen or developed by humans.

Dr Majumder and his team are working with graphite industry partner, Strategic Energy Resources Ltd and an expert in polarized light imaging, Dr. Rudolf Oldenbourg from the Marine Biological Laboratory, USA, to explore how this work can be translated and commercialised.

In tanks in the lab, they simulated the sun passing over the ocean during the course of a day, and they used a custom - built polarimeter to measure how the lookdowns reflected the polarized light.

Theoretical models also predict how black holes with their disks and jets look like in polarized light.