Sentences with phrase «measured small fluctuations»
Space - based observatories like WMAP and Planck have measured small fluctuations in temperature in the CMB.
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The researchers took measurements of small - scale temperature and velocity fluctuations, to measure the diapycnal movements in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) across the Drake Passage region of the Southern Ocean.
And Hall probes can be used to measure very small and slow fluctuations in a magnetic field, down to a hundredth of a gauss (the unit of measurement for magnetic field strength, named for mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss).
The POLARBEAR experiment examined a small (30 degree square) region of the sky to produce high resolution maps of B - mode polarization, which enabled the team to determine that the amplitude of gravitational fluctuations they measured was consistent with the leading theoretical model of the universe, known as the Lambda Cold Dark Matter cosmological model.
The astronomers calculated the object's rotation period by measuring small periodic fluctuations in brightness.