Sentences with phrase «m submillimeter»

Before their ALMA observations, the team searched for baby galaxies in SSA22 with ASTE, a 10 - m submillimeter telescope operated by NAOJ.

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In addition to its work for the NSF, the VLA site is also playing an important role in the development of another radio telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA).

Hints of the explosive nature of the debris in OMC - 1 were first revealed by the Submillimeter Array in Hawaii in 2009.

This year, Doeleman is heading to the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array in Chile, the world's most powerful radio telescope network, to install extraordinarily precise atomic clocks that will allow researchers to combine the Chilean telescopes» data with those from observatories in Hawaii, Spain and eventually the South Pole.

Another plan Rubio is working on is developing the Atacama Astronomical Park, a 36,347 - hectare protected area around the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array, which CONICYT plans to use to attract future telescopes from Brazil and the United States, and maybe also from China, South Korea and Thailand.

Johansen is also heartened by a recent discovery from ALMA, a submillimeter array of telescopes in Chile, of young planets sweeping clear paths through millimeter - sized dust grains in a protoplanetary disk no more than a million years old.

[2] The Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), operated in part by ESO, observes in submillimetre and millimetre light and is ideal for the study of such very young stars in molecular clouds.

The Atacama Large Millimeter / Submillimeter Array in the Chilean Andes is the most powerful — and expensive — ground - based observatory yet

Ian Smail of Durham University in the United Kingdom says that, even by the standards of submillimeter galaxies, the simulated galaxy is very large, productive, and long - lived.

On the moon, interferometry could also be applied to the submillimeter spectrum, halfway between radio and infrared wavelengths.

The Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array, or ALMA, is being constructed at an altitude of 5000 metres on the Atacama desert's Chajnantor plateau, one of the driest places on the planet.

The Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, a collection of 66 movable dishes spread across 16 kilometers, is nearing completion.

So an international coalition is building the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) at an altitude about twice as high on Chile's Chajnantor plateau, home to the highest observatories on Earth.

Submillimeter emissions are typically produced by carbon and water molecules in distant galaxies and star - forming regions.

But most submillimeter observatories so far have been single dishes or small arrays without the resolution to pick out star - forming regions in such distant objects.

However, the number of known molecular absorption systems seen in millimeter / submillimeter waveband has been very limited: only about 30 in the Milky Way galaxy and a limited number in other galaxies.

These superbright submillimeter galaxies, they decided, must also be the result of mergers.

AzTEC - 3, which is located in the direction of the constellation Sextans, is what astronomers refer to as a submillimeter galaxy, since it shines brightly in that portion of the spectrum, but is remarkably dim at optical and infrared wavelengths.

Marrett noted that 385 staff members at the NSF - funded National Radio Astronomy Observatory were furloughed during the shutdown, along with 82 people working in the North American office of the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array operating in Chile.

The real game changer, however, is the multinational Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), a constellation of 66 radio dishes inaugurated in 2013.

The paper is titled, «The circumgalactic medium of submillimeter galaxies.

* The data were obtained by ALMA; the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter - wave Astronomy: a millimeter array consisting of 23 parabola antennas in California; the Submillimeter Array a submillimeter array consisting of eight parabola antennas in Mauna Kea, Hawaii; the Plateau de Bure Interferometer; the NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45m radio telescope; USA's National Radio Astronomy Observatory 12m telescope; USA's Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory 14m telescope; IRAM's 30m telescope; and the Swedish - ESO Submillimeter Telescope as Submillimeter Array a submillimeter array consisting of eight parabola antennas in Mauna Kea, Hawaii; the Plateau de Bure Interferometer; the NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45m radio telescope; USA's National Radio Astronomy Observatory 12m telescope; USA's Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory 14m telescope; IRAM's 30m telescope; and the Swedish - ESO Submillimeter Telescope as submillimeter array consisting of eight parabola antennas in Mauna Kea, Hawaii; the Plateau de Bure Interferometer; the NAOJ Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45m radio telescope; USA's National Radio Astronomy Observatory 12m telescope; USA's Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory 14m telescope; IRAM's 30m telescope; and the Swedish - ESO Submillimeter Telescope as Submillimeter Telescope as a supplement.

The Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international astronomy facility, is a partnership of ESO, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) of Japan in cooperation with the Republic of Chile.

There are some ideas on the table, including a reasonably sized spectroscopic telescope, a large submillimeter antenna to supplement ALMA, and maybe an expansion of the VLT interferometer.

Meanwhile, ESO's current main facility, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Cerro Paranal in Chile, continues to be the world's most productive ground - based instrument, and the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), a new radio observatory built jointly with North American and East Asian countries, is opening up this previously little - studied window on the universe.

It also recommends that NSF not waiver from its commitment to build and operate the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope, as well as the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array, which is currently under construction.

Ultimately, ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array) is expected to resolve details 10 times finer than the Hubble Space Telescope when it is completed in 2012.

Using the Submillimeter Array atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii, Swift and his colleagues recently found a type of object that had never been seen before: an extremely large cloud of cold, dense gas 23,000 light - years away.

The Atacama Large Millimeter / Submillimeter Array (ALMA), high up in the deserts of northern Chile, is sensitive to light from cooler objects of the cosmos: clouds of gas and dust rather than burning stars.

To do so, they used the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) to look at distant galaxies seen as they were some 10 billion years ago.

Astronomical sources detected in the submillimeter range are generally thought to be distant, dusty galaxies undergoing a vigorous burst of star formation.

Gravitational lensing is a powerful astrophysical and cosmological probe and is particularly valuable at submillimeter wavelengths for the study of the statistical and individual properties of dusty star - forming galaxies.

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.

Tolerance for incorrect measurement of the materials are «submillimeter,» according to Schwinn, compared with centimeter - scale tolerances for conventional geodesic domes.

Their properties are still difficult to ascertain, however, because the combination of interference from dust and the low spatial resolution of submillimeter telescopes prevents further study at other wavelengths.

With its wide field of view, the new telescope will be able to quickly find promising targets for the much larger Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array, the world's premier telescope for observing in the submillimeter band.

The Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) is under construction on an Andean plain in northern Chile's Atacama Desert.

Remijan and his colleagues are salivating over the scientific potential of the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, a network of 66 radio dishes that will provide unprecedented resolution and sensitivity when it becomes fully operational in late 2012.

Radio waves, including the millimeter and submillimeter light that ALMA sees, are able to penetrate this dust, giving radio astronomers a clearer picture of the dynamics and content of this hostile environment.

By harnessing the extreme sensitivity of the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have directly observed a pair of Milky Way - like galaxies seen when the universe was only eight percent of its current age.

The joint research team led by graduate student and JSPS fellow Takuma Izumi at the Graduate School of Science at the University of Tokyo revealed for the first time — with observational data collected by ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array), in Chile, and other telescopes — that dense molecular gas disks occupying regions as large as a few light years at the centers of galaxies are supplying gas directly to the supermassive black holes.

Another more recent example of international partnership, involving Europe, the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Chile, is the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), a radio interferometer telescope consisting of sixty - six antennas sitting at an altitude of 5,000 meters in the north of Chilehe Atacama Desert.

The Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array in the Atacama Desert, Chile, is the most complex observatory ever built.

The new mega-galaxy, dubbed HXMM01, is the brightest, most luminous and most gas - rich submillimeter - bright galaxy merger known.

Mar 18, 2008 A gigantic radio telescope ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array) is under construction in Chile through collaboration among Japan,...

The Atacama Large Millimeter / Submillimeter Array (ALMA) has been conceived as a radio telescope comprised of sixty - four transportable 12 - meter diameter antennas distributed over an area 14 km in extent.

ALMA was specifically designed to study this and shorter submillimeter - wavelength light.

An ACA (Atacama Compact Array) 12 - m antenna was handed over as the first antenna to the Joint ALMA Observatory, which operates ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array).

On March 13th, in a remote part of the Chilean Andes, the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), was inaugurated at an official ceremony.

The ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array) astronomical observatory has taken another step forward and upward, as one of its state - of - the - art antennas was carried for the first time to the 5000m plateau of Chajnantor, in the Chilean Andes, on the back of a custom - built giant transporter, on 2009 September 18 (JST).