Sentences with phrase «new precision measurements»

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Once observations of the moment of inertia will be possible through the measurement of binary pulsars, the new method will allow us to measure the stellar radius with a precision of 10 % or less.
The plan was for NASA pilots to crisscross the continent in jets loaded with new technology that promised precision measurements unlike any made before.
Maxwell knew that even an era of precision measurements is not a sign of science's end but preparation for the opening of new frontiers.
The new measurement is a high - precision count of two forms of argon gas — Argon - 36 and Argon -38-accomplished by the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument on Curiosity.
New precision satellite measurements will enable scientists to probe insides of distant stars
This approach uses precision measurement techniques and devices from atomic, quantum, and condensed - matter physics to detect tiny signals due to new particles or forces.
A team of researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston has developed technologies for precision measurement of cell migration speed before and applied the new tool to study the variations of migration speed in population of cancer cells.
More importantly, they can be stored in special traps, enabling researchers to perform high - precision measurements and look for signs of new physics.
«It opens a new era of precision measurement on antihydrogen.»
The new measurement is a high - precision count of two forms of argon gas — Argon - 36 and Argon - 38 — accomplished by the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument on Curiosity.
Also, the greater precision of the newer measurement of the Hubble Constant provides increased constraints on the nature of the «dark energy» discussed in the cosmology chapter.
The planets are amenable to mass measurement by precision radial velocity measurements, and therefore K2 - 138 could represent a new benchmark systems for comparing radial velocity and TTV masses.
Second, together with our international partners, NSF provides the tools that astronomers need to make precision measurements of planetary systems; the newly inaugurated Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) can study planets in the act of formation, while the Gemini Observatory is poised for new exoplanet discoveries with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) that will be commissioned in the next year.
The HPF calibration system will combine several other new technologies developed by the Penn State Optical - Infrared instrumentation group to improve RV measurement precision including a dynamic optical coupling system that significantly reduces modal noise effects.
During a recent cruise of the New Zealand research vessel Tangaroa, skin sea - surface temperatures were measured to high accuracy by the Marine - Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (M - AERI), and contemporaneous measurements of the bulk temperature were measured at a depth of ~ 5 cm close to the M - AERI foot print by a precision thermistor mounted in a surface - following float.
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