Sentences with phrase «of observing»

The source persisted through several days of observing, occurring at the same sky location each day.

Capable of observing the Universe by detecting light that is invisible to the human eye, ALMA will show us never - before - seen details of the birth of stars, infant galaxies in the early Universe, and planets coalescing around distant suns.

«Being able to go behind the scenes to see how they run the telescopes and instruments every day, getting 10 nights of observing and engineering time on the telescopes, and going up to the summit twice to see the incredible engineering behind this gigantic machine has turned me from a student to an actual observer.

But biologists who use experimental systems to study these processes have the luxury of observing the fine...

This heighten the motivation of observing planet forming object with ALMA and many researchers started working on this field.

After two years of observing the pulsar, astronomers determined how the companion altered the pulsar blinks in order to determine the orbit orientation and mass of the stars — the pulsar has a mass 1.2 times that of the sun while the companion star has a mass 1.05 times that of the sun.

The directors of the institute make observing time available to applicants based on the recommendations of the Program Committee for Effelsberg (PKE), which judges the scientific merit (and technical feasibility) of the observing requests.

As galaxies with active black holes in their cores provide a means of observing huge quantities of radiation being generated and its impact on galaxies, AGN have been used as a laboratory to study star formation in these tumultuous places.

And instead of observing the sun - moon eclipse, you stared at the sun as the Earth meandered in its orbit.

Seeking the way of observing complex ecosystem dynamics and biodiversity and the biogeochemical modulation in a globally integrated manner is a challenging task of oceanographers» community.

The deadline for submission of observing proposals on IRAM telescopes: the NOEMA interferometer and the 30 - meter telescope, covering the scheduling period 1 December 2017 to 31 May 2018, is 14 September 2017, 17:00 CEST.

January's episode looks at the state of astronomy before Hubble and the difficulties of observing from the ground that drove the need for a space telescope.

Imagine examining a tangle of yarn the size of Earth in hopes of observing an encounter between individual strands.

For the novice stargazer, however, a map remains an essential part of an observing kit.

Meanwhile, astronomers had another chance of observing a stellar occultation by Pluto today, with telescopes at Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

«The exact definition of p - value,» said Ioannidis, «is that if the null hypothesis is correct, the p - value is the chance of observing the research result or some more extreme result.»

Reading your article on the possibility of observing the contents of Lagrangian points (21 February, p 30) reminded me of...

University of California, Berkeley, scientists report in Marine Biology that during many weeks of observing the cephalopod in reefs near Indonesia, the creatures engaged in everything from «cross-dressing» to strangulation during courtship and mating.

Arecibo astronomers Mike Nolan, Ellen Howell and their colleagues got hours of observing time.

«This is a very important step toward determining what the heating mechanisms are,» says Eric Priest, an applied mathematician at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland and pioneer of the observing technique used in the new observation.

«The surprising result is that you have to heat only the lowest 10,000 kilometres, no matter how high the loops arc,» says Markus Aschwanden, an astrophysicist at the Lockheed - Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, and leader of the observing team.

Both Super-Kamiokande and SNO researchers had to overcome many hurdles to make their discoveries, particularly the difficulty of observing neutrinos that — because they have very little mass and no electric charge — interact only very rarely with atoms in the detectors.

«Capturing an object this small, about half a kilometer across, at such a tremendous distance with this clarity is truly amazing,» said Michael Busch, a research scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, and a member of the observing team.

Patients who underwent open - heart surgery in the afternoon experienced better health outcomes compared to those who got operated on in the morning, study authors found after six years of observing nearly 600 patients who underwent heart valve replacement.

What is your fondest memory of observing the chimps in Tanzania?

We're trying to get at the processes that drive sensitivity, instead of observing the actual changes themselves.»

To visually track down his putative Planet 9, Brown is requesting 20 nights of observing time on the Subaru telescope in Hawaii, the only large instrument with a wide enough field of view to practically pull off such a search.

«We don't want to be sensational in any way, and we are very realistic about the chances this is artificial, but because this is a unique situation we think mankind can afford 10 hours of observing time using the best equipment on the planet to check a low - probability hypothesis.»

Understanding postcopulatory sexual selection has traditionally been difficult, due to the challenge of observing events within the reproductive tracts of internally fertilizing species — from those in organisms as small as a Drosophila fly to as large as a human.

This galaxy is located 3.8 billion light years away, and there is not the slightest chance of observing these planets directly, not even with the best telescope one can imagine in a science fiction scenario,» said Guerras.

Boyle says that with its wide field of view and high - speed data acquisition, the array can capture views of galaxies in two images and 5 minutes of observing time that previously took 400 images and 2 years to assemble.

Just as bigger telescopes collect more light and enable viewing of fainter objects, increasing the mass of germanium allows for a greater probability of observing the rare decay.

The discovery showed that gravitational waves offer a new way of observing the universe and are a major tool for astronomers.

It is a basic principle of quantum mechanics: The act of observing affects the thing observed.

[The studies] have said the chances of observing such extreme Australian temperatures in a world without anthropogenic global warming is almost impossible.»

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.

It was the cosmic event that she had been dreaming of observing since she started learning about it as a Ph.D. student some 8 years earlier, and she couldn't wait to dive in.

But 2016's announcement of the first detection of gravitational waves, produced 1.3 billion years ago in the collision of two monstrous black holes, has given scientists a whole new way of observing the heavens.

Since each programmer had different goals, measuring the overall effectiveness of the app was difficult, Evans says, but subjectively, he and his colleagues felt the simple act of observing their behavior through the app led them to change in ways that helped them meet their work goals.

Still, 50 percent of the observing time is occupied with SETI searches.

But after seven months of observing, they were confident that the oxygen had been buried in the comet since its birth about 4.5 billion years ago (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature15707).

Astronomers lost some 500 hours of observing time at the Green Bank radio telescope in West Virginia as a result of the U.S. government shutdown.

Approximately 500 hours of observing time was lost at Green Bank Observatory; almost half of which was high frequency observing time that is seasonal and can not be rescheduled.

Florian Peissker, a PhD student at the University of Cologne in Germany, who did much of the observing, says: «Being at the telescope and seeing the data arriving in real time was a fascinating experience,» and Monica Valencia - S., a post-doctoral researcher also at the University of Cologne, who then worked on the challenging data processing adds: «It was amazing to see that the glow from the dusty cloud stayed compact before and after the close approach to the black hole.»

In the past decade, as powerful new telescopes capable of observing faint spectral lines have come online, the search for alien molecules has accelerated.

De Waal makes his case primarily with engaging anecdotes drawn from a lifetime of observing primates in captivity.

Taylor does think the new technique holds great promise for the future, because of its ability to identify types of particle and the fact that it can operate day or night in any weather (optical techniques of observing air showers only work on clear moonless nights).

After 120 hours of observing, the researchers detected more than 300 distant galaxies.

But with the ground - based telescopes of the day, he remarked, «there is no great chance of observing this phenomenon.»

Padilla keeps his drawing pencils on a ledge at the edge of the observing table in an old metal box labeled «Koh - i - noor.»