Sentences with phrase «observing run»

He will have to wait until his next observing run.

Scientists searching for gravitational waves have confirmed yet another detection from their fruitful observing run earlier this year.

This increased sensitivity made it possible to detect the gravitational waves from the merging black holes near the end of the first observing run in September 2015.

Having wrapped up its first observing run on 12 January, LIGO's instruments are now taking a well - earned rest.

These candidates are likely targets for future observing runs at Keck Observatory for confirmation.

With the next observing run planned for late 2018, we can expect such detections weekly or even more often,» says David Shoemaker, a physicist at the Masschusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and spokesperson for the LIGO collaboration.

Scientists expect to launch a new observing run in fall 2018, though there will be occasional test runs during which detections may occur.

When the second observing run begins, probably in July, the detectors should be 30 or 40 per cent more sensitive, allowing LIGO to hear events in at least twice as many galaxies.

Enjoy this rebroadcast of a rare observing run at the W. M. Keck Observatory, home of the two largest and most scientifically productive telescopes on Earth.

Radial velocity observations from observing runs in 2000 and 2004 reveal a periodic variation of 3.30 ± 0.02 d, which is consistent with the previously determined value of 3.3125 ± 0.0002 d.

The first official observing run of Advanced LIGO began 18 September 2015, but the instruments were up and running in «engineering mode» several weeks before that.

Two other masts hold anemometers, barometers, and thermometers that need no daily energy boost; these instruments stay in place throughout the two - week observing run.

A recent analysis of an 11 - day observing run in 2009, however, failed to identify any such dark particles, casting doubt on two competing groups» prior claims of possible dark matter signals.

It's certain that the new OL coach has seen the tape of Collins playing guard; remember that Collins was above Leary on the depth chart before Collins got hurt (toe) and was observed running amok in the opponent's secondary.

And for liberals observing this running Freudian drama, it's hard not to root for the older guy.

LIGO researchers are still analyzing data from their first observing run with their upgraded detectors, which ended 12 January, and they plan to start taking data again in July.

This encore observing run was largely ceremonial for the man who pioneered the worldwide collaborative effort known as SETI — the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

«Future LIGO observing runs will tell us much more about the universe's population of black holes, and it won't be long before we'll know if the scenario I outline is either supported or ruled out,» Kashlinsky said.

The detectors are starting the new run with about 10 % better sensitivity than they had during the previous observing run, says Gabriela González, a physicist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and spokesperson for the 1000 - member LIGO Scientific Collaboration.

Engineers were forced to temporarily install wire suspensions, reducing Virgo's sensitivity; it will now take a supporting role during the last few weeks of LIGO's current observing run.

«Again, without the public support for this dedicated observing run, we would not have this large amount of data.»

In our present study, we used data from the first three longer CoRoT observing runs, on which a significant part of the candidate follow - up was completed, i.e. the «Initial Run» IRa01 (55 days in the anticenter direction) and the first two «Long Runs», lasting about 150 days each, which targeted the center and the anticenter (LRc01 and LRa01, respectively).

Detection results are also described in more detail by Carpano et al. (2009) for the IRa01 observing run data and by Cabrera et al. (2009) for the LRc01 data, descriptions of the later runs being in preparation.

In the past days as part of Project EDEN I had the opportunity to participate in my first ever observing run.

Due to the availability of data from three observing runs separated by ~ 10 and 1 month timescales, we are able to demonstrate clear evidence for evolution of the photometric amplitudes, and hence spot patterns, over the 10 month gap, although we are not able to constrain the timescales for these effects in detail due to limitations imposed by the large gaps in our sampling, preventing use of the phase information.

Though the LIGO and Virgo detectors have been on hiatus since last fall (the start of a year - long break between observing runs O2 and O3), the world of astrophysics continues to be bombarded with new GW results informed by O1 and O2 data.

What happens within each sculpture is that when two pieces of cloth meet (in that juncture of color) one can often observe a run off or a series of little white tips from the underlying thread, which read as a series of dots.

«With the next observing run planned for fall 2018 we can expect such detections weekly or even more often.»

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«With the next observing run planned for Fall 2018 we can expect such detections weekly or even more often.»

Whether Virgo manages to take part in the current run, the team should be able to reinstall the glass fibers and root out other sources of noise by the spring of 2018, when LIGO will start a new observing run.

The upgraded Virgo was due to join LIGO during its second observing run, which began in November 2016 but problems with the suspensions holding up the mirrors (these bounce the laser beam back and forth along the arms) led to delays.

The fact that Advanced LIGO detected an event even before the start of its first official observing run is certainly promising!

«With detections of two strong events in the four months of our first observing run, we can begin to make predictions about how often we might be hearing gravitational waves in the future.

During the observing run, which ended 25 August, Virgo ran with between a quarter to a half the sensitivity of LIGO, Mours says.

Hobbled Virgo detector will support its U.S. counterpart for the final weeks of its observing run

The technique that the astronomers of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) use to observe black holes is called Very Long Baseline Interferometry, or VLBI, but it might as well be called Extremely Delayed Gratification Astronomy: it can take weeks or months after an observing run to find out whether the telescope array actually saw anything.

Managing real - time analyses sometimes means being woken up in the middle of the night to deal with new signals, which is exhausting when it extends over the many months of an observing run, Messick says.

So the team deliberately sought out dimmer distant quasars in a September 2015 observing run at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.

The CoRoT satellite searches for planets by applying the transit method, monitoring up to 12 000 stars in the galactic plane for 150 days in each observing run.

Various press accounts reported odds anywhere from 1 - in - 27 million to 1 - in - 650 million that the observed run of global temperature records (9 of the 10 warmest years and 13 of the 15 warmest years each having had occurred since 2000) might have resulted from chance alone, i.e. without any assistance from human - caused global warming.

The data taken during this observing run, which included telescopes in Spain, Mexico, Chile, Arizona, Hawaii, and the South Pole, may be good enough to get a first glimpse of a black hole event horizon.

When he travels to observatories for research, he says he likes to listen to books on tape to help him stay awake through the observing runs.

LIGO and Virgo scientists continue to study data from the completed O2 observing run, searching for other events already «in the can,» and are preparing for the greater sensitivity expected for the fall O3 observing run.

Even if they can't generate an image from this observing run, Doeleman and his colleagues already have plans to try again next year, with an even larger network of radio telescopes.

More than that, however, this observing run inspired me more than any light - curve or science image ever could.