Sentences with phrase «infrared detectors»

Using infrared detectors, it mimics touchscreen technology without technically being a touchscreen.

He developed a novel infrared detector incorporating a precision CO2 laser, which made it easier to study this wavelength of light without contamination from hot sources all around us.

But with the development of infrared detectors in the late 1960s and early 1970s, astronomers discovered that in the infrared, CW Leonis is the second brightest star in the sky (after the Sun).

VISTA is the world's largest dedicated survey telescope, and has a large field of view imaged with very sensitive infrared detectors, characteristics that made it ideal for obtaining the deep, high - quality infrared images required by this ambitious survey.

The researchers used a system of infrared detectors to sense elephants heading toward farmers» fields.

But if you could control the density of the tin droplets and the direction they travel, he says, the approach «could be useful» for devices that don't require a precise wiring pattern — such as infrared detectors.

Similarly, the thermal cloak is designed to hide heated objects from infrared detectors without distorting the temperature outside the cloak.

But it is also because infrared detectors that are both sensitive and quick enough to measure very distant, short - lived GRB afterglows have only recently begun operating.

To make their measurements, two separate groups had Spitzer's infrared detector take a steady bead on the planets» stars while the planets were eclipsed by them.

In actuality the maps above were generated using thermal infrared detectors on Aqua.

The team will use Webb's sensitive infrared detectors to observe stars behind the molecular cloud.

Although there is a small chance that the Pistol could turn out to be two smaller stars huddled together — Figer's team is taking a sensitive new infrared detector to the Keck telescope in Hawaii next summer to find out — it could also turn out to be even more massive than the initial estimates.

The pistols are new heat - seeking devices known as infrared detectors that sound a signal in the presence of a flame, ember or other abnormal heat source.

Following the 2013 failure, a plan was developed to install windows in the transformer cabinets to allow the temperature of the windings inside to be monitored using infrared detectors.

Features lots of experiments: Infrared detectors, strobe lights, color changing LEDs, lighted and glow - in - the - dark fans, plus many more.

But now, infrared detectors have become sensitive enough to begin opening a new window on the corona, says Jenna Samra, a graduate student at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who helps to lead the project.

If an infrared detector finds an absorption line in the spectrum at 4.2 micrometres, for example, this is a sure sign that CO2 is present (see Graph).

NICMOS was installed in February 1997, but the solid nitrogen used to cool the sensitive infrared detectors to 62 degrees kelvin -LRB--348 degrees Fahrenheit) was depleted just 2 years later, much faster than anticipated.

The ultraviolet detector determines how much ozone the atmosphere has, and the infrared detector measures how much carbon dioxide and water vapor there is in the atmosphere.

In 1968 astronomers aimed a new tool at the galactic center: the infrared detector, capable of picking up the faint heat thrown off by even lukewarm matter.

So headlights no longer swamp the infrared detector.

Designing Oxygen At the heart of the Oxygen system is the Handy 21, which is like a cellular phone but which has additionally a visual display, a camera, infrared detectors and a computer.

Oxygen interacts with the inanimate physical world in two ways — through these controllable appliances and through the infrared detectors in the Handy 21s.

Then, the team's Gamma - Ray Burst Optical / Near - Infrared Detector, or GROND, simultaneously captured the waning light in seven wavelengths.

Exactly what hardware NASA will provide still must be negotiated, but ESA is particularly interested in U.S. near - infrared detectors.

The disks, made of gas and dust that whirl around young suns, are too small and distant to be seen by visible - light telescopes; however, the infrared glow of their warm dust showed up easily using Spitzer's infrared detectors.

The sensitive HgCdTe arrays that comprise the infrared detectors in NICMOS must operate at very cold temperatures.

Critical subjects in making image of diffuse emission from detected signal are the transient response and long - term stability of the far - infrared detectors.

Because the light being collected is invisible, the human observer is replaced by an infrared detector at the mirror's focal point.

She obtained the services of an inspector who, using a moisture sensor and an infrared detector, was able to discover the source.