Sentences with phrase «infrared astronomy at»

During the 1970s and 1980s, Burnell went on to work in gamma - ray astronomy at the University of Southampton, X-ray astronomy at University College London, and infrared astronomy at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh.

Not exact matches

According to Mather and other leading astronomers now working on a report to be released this summer by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), that quest and others require an even bigger space telescope that would observe, as Hubble does, at optical, ultraviolet and near - infrared wavelengths.

One big winner at NASA is the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), a telescope mounted on a Boeing 747 jet.

The report also urges refurbishing the Australia Telescope, the 64 - metre radio telescope at Parkes in NSW, so that it can be used for infrared astronomy and the support of site testing for a possible international observatory on the Antarctic plateau.

In addition to Bock, Zemcov, and Cooray, other coauthors of the paper, «On the Origin of Near - Infrared Extragalactic Background Light Anisotropy,» are Joseph Smidt of Los Alamos National Laboratory; Toshiaki Arai, Toshio Matsumoto, Shuji Matsuura, and Takehiko Wada of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency; Yan Gong of UC Irvine; Min Gyu Kim of Seoul National University; Phillip Korngut, a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech; Anson Lam of UCLA; Dae Hee Lee and Uk Won Nam of the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI); Gael Roudier of JPL; and Kohji Tsumura of Tohoku University.

«Seeing in infrared light is important because the diminution of visible light from inside a dusty cloud can be enormous,» says Judy Pipher, a professor of observational and experimental astronomy at the University of Rochester in New York.

With Falcon Heavy's additional lift, researchers planning the Large UV Optical Infrared Surveyor telescope, a proposed mission for the 2020s with a mirror at least 9 meters across, could focus less on reducing weight and more on delivering a great scientific instrument, says Matt Mountain, president of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington, D.C. «If we don't have to fight for mass, the testing is greatly simplified and you can launch more ambitious systems.»

In a UC Berkeley lab staffed mostly by students, Townes moved on again to pioneer the field of infrared astronomy, essentially looking at sources of heat in outer space, and precision infrared spectroscopy.

Harriet's first postdoctoral position was as a National Research Council fellow at the NASA Ames Research Center in California, which at that time was home base for the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, a flying telescope that was the forerunner of SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy that is currently being built.

On January 10, 2006, astronomers using the infrared Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) Array announced that Vega rotates so fast (at around 91 percent of its «break - up rate») that it is cooler as well as 23 percent wider along its equator than at its poles due to the gravitational effect of its «middle bulge» (NOAO press release; AAS 207 session summary); and Aufdenberg et al, 2006).

It's called optical SETI, and its instruments are focused on a different band of the light spectrum than radio astronomy, looking instead at the same waves our eyes take in, along with infrared frequencies, which are just a smidge longer.

The Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors project is aimed to measurably enhance student STEM engagement and achievement in selected school districts via professional development for teachers consisting of: (1) STEM Professional Development in astrophysics and planetary science delivered via webinars & in - person workshops; (2) a week - long STEM immersion experience at NASA's science research aircraft facility in Palmdale, California, including participation in research flights on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA); (3) follow - through involving continuing webinars fostering reflection and connections with astrophysics & planetary science subject matter experts.

This work used the Immersion Grating INfrared Spectrometer (IGRINS), developed under a collaboration between the University of Texas at Austin and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI) with the financial support of the US National Science Foundation (NSF grant AST - 1229522) to the University of Texas at Austin, and the Korean GMT Project of KASI.

It feeds right into how I ended up at NASA Ames for SOFIA (the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) and for that matter into my work on the Discovery Channel Telescope here at Lowell.

Infrared interferometry has a long tradition at Konkoly Observatory (Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences).

The AAS thanks the following organizations for «loaning» staff to work on the newspaper: Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP), Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), and Universe Awareness (UNAWE) at Leiden University.