Sentences with phrase «national radio observatory»

In the very beginning there was much controversy about the need for a national radio observatory and about how it should be operated.

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They mapped out how far star - forming regions were from the sky, using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Long Baseline Array of telescopes, and calculating how far these war form Earth.

The facility itself is decades old, but recent improvements to the electronics of the array are boosting its performance specs across the board by factors of at least 10, and in some cases by more than 1,000, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Rick Perley said at the meeting.

John Tobin of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia, and colleagues found that the disc's motion mirrors the way planets orbit stars, hinting that it has all the right moves for planet formation (Nature, doi.org/jxm).

«Astronomy really is about to explode across the African continent,» astronomer Kartik Sheth of the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory said January 9 at the 223rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society near Washington, D.C..

«The gradual brightening of the radio signal indicates we are seeing a wide - angle outflow of material, traveling at speeds comparable to the speed of light, from the neutron star merger,» said Kunal Mooley, now a National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow hosted by Calradio signal indicates we are seeing a wide - angle outflow of material, traveling at speeds comparable to the speed of light, from the neutron star merger,» said Kunal Mooley, now a National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow hosted by CalRadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) Jansky Postdoctoral Fellow hosted by Caltech.

Update on 27 October: Another high - mass pulsar weighing 1.97 solar masses was reported by a team led by Paul Demorest of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia (Nature, vol 467, p 1081).

Materials provided by National Radio Astronomy Observatory.

At the American Astronomical Society meeting in January, Christopher Carilli of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and his colleagues argued that the holes came first.

For instance, radar on driverless cars could affect radio astronomy operations up to 100 kilometers away, said Harvey Liszt, a radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville,radio astronomy operations up to 100 kilometers away, said Harvey Liszt, a radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville,radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville,Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va..

«Since gamma ray bursts are usually so well behaved, this really stood out,» says radio astronomer Dale Frail of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Soccorro, New Meradio astronomer Dale Frail of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Soccorro, New MeRadio Astronomy Observatory in Soccorro, New Mexico.

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Drake was a young radio astronomer at the time, working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virgradio astronomer at the time, working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West VirgRadio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia.

«The era of gravitational wave astronomy is upon us,» says astronomer Scott Ransom of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va., who is not involved with LIGO.

Using the Very Large Array of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in the US, the team observed radio emission from hydrogen in a distant galaxy and found that it would have contained billions of young, massive stars surrounded by clouds of hydrogenRadio Astronomy Observatory in the US, the team observed radio emission from hydrogen in a distant galaxy and found that it would have contained billions of young, massive stars surrounded by clouds of hydrogenradio emission from hydrogen in a distant galaxy and found that it would have contained billions of young, massive stars surrounded by clouds of hydrogen gas.

Other members of the team are the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under a cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.; West Virginia University; McGill University in Montreal, Canada; and the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy.

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.

A consortium led by the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando will take over management of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, home to one of the world's largest radio telescopes, the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Alexandria, Virginia, announced today.

Known as FRB 121102, its location on the sky has now been monitored for many tens of hours by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in Socorro, New Mexico (an array of 27 radio dishes), and the European VLBI Network (EVN)-- a continent - wide collaboration of radio telescRadio Astronomy Observatory's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in Socorro, New Mexico (an array of 27 radio dishes), and the European VLBI Network (EVN)-- a continent - wide collaboration of radio telescradio dishes), and the European VLBI Network (EVN)-- a continent - wide collaboration of radio telescradio telescopes.

«One of the primary science goals of ALMA is the detection and detailed study of galaxies throughout cosmic time,» said Chris Carilli, an astronomer with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico.

If the new technique works, then in that regard «it does somewhat obviate the need for an SKA,» says Chris Carilli of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico.

Astronomer Dale Frail of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Socorro, New Mexico, says the unified model «is so simple and elegant, you want it to be true.»

The telescope — based at the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in West Virginia — was tuned to a frequency of 1420 megahertz, the wavelength of radiation naturally emitted by hydrogen in space.

* 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 a suppleRadio 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 a suppleradio 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 a suppleRadio Astronomy Observatory 12m telescope; USA's Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory 14m telescope; IRAM's 30m telescope; and the Swedish - ESO Submillimeter Telescope as a suppleRadio Astronomy Observatory 14m telescope; IRAM's 30m telescope; and the Swedish - ESO Submillimeter Telescope as a supplement.

Not so, says a team including Chris Carilli of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in New Mexico (arxiv.org/abs/1201.3372v1).

Along with Hubble, which shows where the old and the new stars are, the researchers used the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX), the Herschel Space Observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM - Newton), the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)'s Jansky Very Large Array (JVLA), the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)'s Kitt Peak WIYN 3.5 meter telescope, and the Magellan Baade 6.5 meter telescope.

ALMA construction and operations are led by ESO on behalf of its Member States; by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), managed by Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI), on behalf of North America; and by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) on behalf of East Asia.

The science team, led by chemist Brett McGuire at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, detected this molecule's telltale radio signature coming from a nearby star - forming nebula known as the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1 (TCM - 1), which is about 430 light - years from ERadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, detected this molecule's telltale radio signature coming from a nearby star - forming nebula known as the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1 (TCM - 1), which is about 430 light - years from Eradio signature coming from a nearby star - forming nebula known as the Taurus Molecular Cloud 1 (TCM - 1), which is about 430 light - years from Earth.

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation, operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc..

«What we're seeing is a star that is the cosmic equivalent of «Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,» with the ability to change from one form to its more intense counterpart with startling speed,» said Scott Ransom, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Va. «Though we have known that X-ray binaries — some of which are observed as X-ray pulsars — can evolve over millions of years to become rapidly spinning radio pulsars, we were surprised to find one that seemed to swing so quickly between the two.&rRadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Va. «Though we have known that X-ray binaries — some of which are observed as X-ray pulsars — can evolve over millions of years to become rapidly spinning radio pulsars, we were surprised to find one that seemed to swing so quickly between the two.&rradio pulsars, we were surprised to find one that seemed to swing so quickly between the two.»

«The sensitivity and resolution of the VLA, following its decade - long upgrade, made it possible to identify the specific objects responsible for nearly all of the radio background emission coming from beyond our own Milky Way Galaxy,» said Jim Condon, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (Nradio background emission coming from beyond our own Milky Way Galaxy,» said Jim Condon, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).

Today's shutdown of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), a National Science Foundation - funded organization that runs the radio telescopes, threatens that accuRadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), a National Science Foundation - funded organization that runs the radio telescopes, threatens that accuradio telescopes, threatens that accuracy.

«They're at the start of a long road,» says Tony Beasley, head of the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia.

A research team led by Masaya Yamada, a graduate student at Keio University, Japan, and Tomoharu Oka, a professor at Keio University, used the ASTE Telescope in Chile and the 45 - m Radio Telescope at Nobeyama Radio Observatory, both operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, to observe molecular clouds around the supernova remnant W44, located 10,000 light - years away from us.

The panel's recommendation to end the astronomy division's support for Green Bank and VLBA has already sparked protests from Associated Universities Inc. and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, which are responsible for operating those facilities.

Scott Ransom and his colleagues at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory are using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia to track the rotation of this odd pulsar, designated PSR J0337 +1715.

While it was using the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan's 45 - meter Nobeyama radio telescope to study an enigmatic gas cloud called CO -0.40-0.22, something unusual caught their eye: an unusually wide range of speeds in the cloud's gas molecules, suggesting that something massive is accelerating them.

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory, which turned off its telescopes on 4 October, announced its plans to restart operations:

«The processes near a black hole that kick out radio emissions are basically unknown,» says Edward Fomalont, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Virgradio emissions are basically unknown,» says Edward Fomalont, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in VirgRadio Astronomy Observatory in Virginia.

Discovering molecules like amino acetonitrile is a big deal, because it's not easy for them to materialize in the extreme temperatures of space, says radio astronomer Anthony Remijan of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia: «Too hot and they are destroyed, too cold and they can't form.&rradio astronomer Anthony Remijan of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia: «Too hot and they are destroyed, too cold and they can't form.&rRadio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia: «Too hot and they are destroyed, too cold and they can't form.»

«It collects the amplitude and phase information from each of the antennas, and knowing their distances from each other, it lines everything up to produce a coherent picture of the source,» says Jeff Mangum, an ALMA project scientist at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Virginia, US.

The report, «Advancing Astronomy in the Coming Decade: Opportunities and Challenges,» has been controversial: both the NSF's National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the NANOGrav Collaboration (which uses GBT as one of its telescopes to observe pulsars to detect gravitational waves) issued responses, and a public comment forum filled with debate over the telescope's future.

From its first contract to build the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, NSF has funded construction and operation of some of the world's most renowned telescopes.

The National Optical Astronomy Observatory, supported by NSF, hosts 22 optical and two radio observatories on the mountain's top 200 acres.

«The opportunity for these projects to use significant time on the world's best scientific instruments is occurring in part because of the limitations in government funding for these facilities,» Worden says, noting that flat or shrinking NASA and National Science Foundation budgets for astronomy have left the Parkes and Green Bank radio telescopes — as well as many other observatories — scrambling for new sources of financial support.

Concurrently with the radar imaging, the scientists also used the radar transmitter at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and a portion of the antennas that are part of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's (NRAO) Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to perform an observation known as radar speckle tracking.

«We used the VLA and ALMA to see deeply into these galaxies, beyond the dust that obscured their innards from Hubble,» said Kristina Nyland, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).

On November 16, the National Science Foundation, which funds the bulk of the observatory's operating costs, announced that they would continue funding the radio telescope at a reduced level.

The signal bounced off the asteroid, and its radar echoes were received by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's (NRAO) 100 - meter (330 - foot) Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.

The first production receivers were built and delivered to ALMA in the first half of 2015 by a consortium consisting of the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA) and GARD in partnership with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO, which contributed the local oscillator to the project.