Sentences with phrase «measurement is the distance»

The measurement is the distance to SS Cygni, a star system consisting of a white dwarf plus a companion.

The measurements are some distance from the calving front and may not have resulted in warming under the floating section.

Not exact matches

Even Carroll's primary personal activity, distance running, is basically an exercise in obsessive performance measurement and squeezing out tiny improvements in efficiency.

Whitehead's account of the perceptive mode of presentational immediacy, as he explicitly states, is dependent upon a definition of straight lines in terms which make no appeal to measurement (unlike the definition, «the shortest distance between two points»): «It is to be noted that this doctrine of presentational immediacy and of the strain - locus entirely depends...

The process of research is one based entirely on the analysis of light, calling for miracles of patience, ability and acumen; but it is astonishingly fruitful, since it enables exact measurements to be made of the mass, energy, diameter, distance and movement of objects vast in themselves but ultra-microscopic to us because of their remoteness.

22 Associated with both of the quotations, B 29, 59 and PR 498f, given on pages 246f above are examples involving the measurement of spatial distance and times of revolution; see R 58f and PR 499.

Some measurements which will likely be taken include the distance around your little one's abdomen (abdominal circumference), the distance across your baby's head, the distance around the outside of your baby's head (head circumference) and the length of your baby's upper leg bones (femur length).

More accurate distances between the most common type of «planetary nebulae» and the Earth can be estimated simply with three sets of data: firstly, the size of the object on the sky taken from the latest high resolution surveys; secondly, an accurate measurement of how bright the object is in the red hydrogen - alpha emission line; and thirdly, an estimate of the dimming toward the nebula caused by so called interstellar - reddening.

Plus, the range finding on these binoculars is fast - often providing accurate distance measurements within seconds.

They compare those distance measurements with how the light from the supernovae is stretched to longer wavelengths by the expansion of space.

The new distance measurement also enabled the astronomers to determine that EGS - zs8 - 1 is still forming stars rapidly, about 80 times faster than our galaxy.

And the wider the distance between your two detectors, be they eyes or radio dishes, the more acute your measurement can be.

Astronomers made the measurements by streamlining and strengthening the construction of the cosmic distance ladder, which is used to measure accurate distances to galaxies near and far from Earth.

Because parallax measurements are so difficult to obtain for far - distant star - forming regions on the other side of the galaxy, astronomers widely agree they will chiefly serve as important calibration points to augment existing kinematic distance measurements.

This method simulates the distances in space across which absorption measurements are taken, but in a sample length of 75 cm.

One is to make precise measurements of the round - trip distance from the spacecraft to the asteroid using the on - board laser altimeter.

Nonlocality was indeed endemic to quantum mechanics, Bell had shown: somehow, the outcome of the measurement on particle B depended on the measured outcome on particle A, even if the two particles were separated by huge distances at the time those measurements were made.

Another major factor in this study was the scope of Operation IceBridge's measurements across Greenland, which included flights that covered distances of tens of thousands of kilometers across the ice sheet.

Independent of FEV1 measurements, sustained physical inactivity was associated with greater declines in 6 - minute walk distance results and fat - free mass compared to some level of physical activity.

In 1929 Edwin Hubble used these velocities and his own measurements of these galaxies» distances from Earth to deduce that the Universe is expanding.

Although the researchers did not have Bob and Alice generating random signals as truly secure cryptography requires, they did show that the signal timings and measurements could be performed over such great distances.

THE distance to the nearby Virgo cluster of galaxies is a crucial measurement.

The distance measurement of GN - z11 provides additional strong evidence that other unusually bright galaxies found in earlier Hubble images are really at extraordinary distances, showing that we are closing in on the first galaxies that formed in the Universe.

This is the first time that the distance of an object so far away has been measured from its spectrum, which makes the measurement extremely reliable.

The new approach could also enable accurate distance measurements through fog, which has proven to be a major obstacle to the development of self - driving cars.

«ChroGPS is based on the sequential application of two steps: first the generation of distances (or degrees of similarity) between epigenetic components on the basis of several possible measurements that we have developed, and after, in the representation of these distances in the form of bi - o tri-dimensional maps to facilitate their interpretation.For example, they are like visual maps from which distance tables can be drawn up in kilometers between cities,» describes Òscar Reina, one of the developers of the software application.

Because distance measurements are used to calculate the brightness — and hence age — of stars, the new data indicate that Orion's stars are older than previously thought, which makes them consistent with current theory about stellar evolution, Bower notes.

This push is related in a simple way to the horizontal displacement of the bob and again allows the accurate measurement of a small distance to be translated into a precise determination of force.

Most importantly, astronomers have high - precision measurements of the SMC's rotation curve, which shows how its rotational speed changes with distance from its center and indicates how much dark matter is present.

The measured uncertainty in location capability was 16 meters, much higher than the target of 3 meters, but this metric can be improved through future noise suppression techniques, increased sensor bandwidth, and improved digital algorithms that can accurately extract distance measurements, Howe explained.

Supernova measurements indicate that distant galaxies are separating from one another by 73 kilometers per second for each megaparsec (about 3.3 million light - years) of distance between them.

Compare that with the apparent brightness and you know the distance, even at larger scales where parallax measurements are impossible.

Because the masses of the atoms and cylinders and their separation distance are known to high accuracy, the researchers could tease out the value of G from multiple measurements of the clouds» accelerations.

The measurements were not easy: Clouds, dust, and distance all threatened to confound the results.

However, these findings are incompatible with the results of efforts to locate individual ribosomal proteins by immune electron microscopy and triangulation with interprotein distance measurements.

The quasar's distance is determined by what's called its redshift, which is a measurement of how much the wavelength of its light is stretched by the expansion of the universe before reaching Earth.

A report in this week's Science finds that these bright flashes do seem to spread out by the same amount and are born from stars of identical masses, which may help refine cosmic distance measurements.

Because of the uniform and extremely high brightness (about 5 billion times brighter than the Sun) of type Ia supernovae, they are often used for distance measurements in astronomy.

These vortices of upwardly spiraling wind have been studied for decades, but information about them is usually, and understandably, obtained from a distance, precluding fine - scale measurements of rotational speed, shear forces, and internal wind pathways.

Take the distance from the centre of the Earth to the centre of the moon: 240,000 miles would be an accurate but imprecise measurement; 289,562 miles would be precise but inaccurate; 238,857 miles would be both accurate and precise.

For instance, the range of the method is still limited to typical distances of less than 1 m. Moreover, today's standard processors do not permit real - time evaluation of the large amount of data generated by the measurement.

This new detection is considered one of the most reliable distance measurements of a galaxy that existed in the early universe, said the Hubble researchers.

«In principle, you can see very early times in the universe [with GRBs], when everything else was too faint,» says Nial Tanvir of the University of Leicester in the UK, a member of a team that used the Very Large Telescope in Chile to make one of the first measurements of the distance of the burst.

If quantum physics is correct and there is indeed spooky action at a distance, then the results of these measurements would be correlated to a far greater extent than if Einstein was correct.

Thus, measuring how much gamma rays of different energies are attenuated or weakened from blazars at different distances from Earth indirectly gives a measurement of how many EBL photons of different wavelengths exist along the line of sight from blazar to Earth over those different distances.

Perry has tantalising evidence that many other galaxies with large fields exist at even greater distances, but it is impossible to disentangle the measurements without corroboration at visible wavelengths.

Tracking relative motions within the volume, though, is tough; it requires distance and velocity measurements of high precision.

With the availability of genome sequences from representative species in whole phyla, rigorous quantitative measurements of genetic distance based on DNA sequence divergence has been used to test existing evolutionary trees and to re-classify organisms in all kingdoms.

Matching those redshifts to distance measurements calculated from gravitational waves should give estimates of the current rate of cosmic expansion, known as the Hubble constant, that are independent — and potentially more precise — than calculations using current methods.

Unfortunately, if distance measurements using this method are reported in the popular press, usually only the determined distance is given, not the measured red shift nor the used cosmological parameters; this can lead to the result that at different places, different distances are reported for the same object and the same study.