Sentences with word «lensing»

The best support for the idea that these may not be typical is that an estimate of the Hubble constant based on measurements of gravitational lensing of a distant quasar gives a figure of 37 plusminus 14.

NSF has funded these transformative efforts for more than two decades, with research grants resulting directly in the first detection of multi-planet systems, the first detection of exoplanets with masses as small as that of Saturn, and the first planets detected using the technique of gravitational lensing of the radiation from background stars.

Simulations show the resolution we could have expected if SDP.81 had been observed without the aid of gravitational lensing by ALMA (center) or the Hubble Space Telescope (right).

The GREAT3 challenge is designed to improve methods for measuring weak lensing in preparation for future dark matter / dark energy missions, such as the European Space Agency's Euclid, in which NASA plays an important role, and the National Academy of Science's highest priority for NASA, WFIRST — also known as the WFIRST - AFTA mission, which stands for Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope - Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets.

In a new paper submitted to The Astrophysical Journal on 29 November 2013 (available on the ArXiv Preprint Server), a group of astronomers detected a large number of distant, gravitationally lensed galaxy candidates — all viewed through Abell 2744, with the galaxy cluster acting as a lens.

Verkade's installation «Breeder», consisting of three video episodes and various privacy screen - like sculptures, speculates on how processes of reproduction become a sticky mess through lense based power structures.

It's a single galaxy being gravitationally lensed by a foreground object.

The galaxy cluster is part of a Hubble program to observe 23 massive clusters that create powerful gravitational lensing effects on the sky.

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

Using the techniques of strong and weak gravitational lensing on archival data obtained from the Hubble Space Telescope, we determine that the average mass overdensity profile of the lenses can be fit wi... ▽ More We measure the average mass properties of a sample of 41 strong gravitational lenses at moderate redshift (z ~ 0.4 - 0.9), and present the lens redshift for 6 of these galaxies for the first time.

Historically, the analysis of strongly lensed images has been a very time consuming process, requiring a large amount of manual input to study just one system.

H - ATLAS J142935.3 - 002836 (or just H1429 - 0028 for short) is among the brightest gravitationally lensed objects in the far - infrared regime found so far, even though we are seeing it at a time when the universe was just half its current age.

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.»

The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment IV (OGLE - IV) has just entered operation and a new program at Wise Observatory in Tel Aviv will begin operation following up on microlensing events next year.

The imaging data demonstrated that these sources are strongly lensed by foreground galaxies, which increases their apparent luminosities by a factor of ~ 10, which translates to a savings in telescope time of ~ 100, and allows such distant and intrinsically faint objects to be more easily detected.

So we need to look at fainter and fainter galaxies, and the Frontier Fields and galaxy cluster lensing can help us achieve this goal.»

Abbas Kiarostami) Cast: Ryo Kase, Rin Takanashi, Aoi Miyazaki, Tadashi Okuno With lensing underway late last year, it's going to be matter of finishing the movie on time.

I noticed that haha its my camera lense cap totally forgot I placed it in my back pocket but it was the only back shot so had to go with it Thank you its really cosy and thanks gorgeous!

If they slice up the three - dimensional map in different redshift or time slices, they can examine the way the correspondence between these maps and the weak lensing map changes for different slices (Figure 3).

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 this model, they corrected for lensing effects and revealed that SDP.81 is a monstrous galaxy forming stars at hundreds to thousands of times the rate we see in the Milky Way.

As well as creating these weird shapes, lensing also magnifies the images so that astronomers can see more detail.

Gilroy's work is supported by stunning widescreen lensing by D.P. great Robert Elswit and a hypnotic score by composer James Newton Howard.

«You're a bit vanilla,» quips a clueless wannabe Lothario to Holly (Abigail Hardingham), dumping her unceremoniously in an early scene of the beautifully lensed new British horror comedy, Nina Forever.

Rob Zombie ends the weekend announcing that guitarist John 5 will be composing The Lords of Salem, which begins lensing in...

He adds that once researchers identify the first light of a strongly lensed supernova event, computational modeling could also be used to precisely predict when the next of the light will appear.

«Future World» is co-directed by Bruce Thierry Cheung, the cinematographer who lensed Franco's previous directorial efforts, «In Dubious Battle,» «Bukowksi,» and «The Sound and the Fury.»

Since galaxies live in the densest regions of the universe, the weak lensing signal from the deflection of CMB light is strongest from those parts.

«I was new to gravitational lensing at that time.

Since then, Ballhaus has lensed films in every conceivable genre, receiving Oscar nominations for his work on Broadcast News (1987) and The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989).

But after running their simulations, Goldstein and Nugent found microlensing did not change the colors of strongly lensed Type Ia supernova in their early phases.

We find good agreement in the regions of overlap between several weak and strong lensing mass reconstructions using a wide variety of modeling methods, ensuring consistency.

Plastics, however, can be scratched by common dirt, and etched with household chemicals - as people who clean plastic - lensed glasses with their shirt or windex learn.

Three - object lensing systems in the right alignment are even more rare, and things get even more complicated from there.

Our new result using gravitational lensing not only provides additional strong evidence for the accelerated cosmic expansion, but also is useful for accurate measurements of the expansion speed, which is essential for investigating the nature of dark energy.»

The GREAT3 challenge is posed to the astronomy, machine learning, and statistics communities, and includes tests of three specific effects that are of immediate relevance to upcoming weak lensing surveys, two of which have never been tested in a community challenge before.

Until now this type of analysis has been a tedious process that involves comparing actual images of lenses with a large number of computer simulations of mathematical lensing models.

She's got potential franchise coming with «The Host» opening next month, genre offerings «Byzantium» and «How I Live Now» are on the horizon, and she's currently lensing Wes Anderson «s «The Grand Budapest Hotel» taking the female lead role.

I think it depends on what lense you use.

Image of the gravitational lens RX J1131 - 1231 galaxy with the lens galaxy at the center and four lensed background quasars.

To make these discoveries, the team utilised the deepest images of gravitational lensing made so far in three galaxy clusters, which were taken as part of the Hubble Frontier Fields programme [4].

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.

Abstract: A key goal of the Stage IV dark energy experiments Euclid, LSST and WFIRST is to measure the growth of structure with cosmic time from weak lensing analysis over large regions of the sky.

It is Scripture yes BUT, we must learn to read Scripture through a different lense.

To shed new light on these mysteries, we combine the gravitational lensing power of 25 massive galaxy clusters with HST's enhanced panchromatic imaging capabilities (WFC3 and the restored ACS) to test structure formation models with unprecedented precision.