Sentences with phrase «of radio astronomers»

Greater ability to see detail, called resolving power, has been a quest of radio astronomers for more than half a century.

The IAA award citation notes that the VSOP team «realized the long - held dream of radio astronomers to extend those baselines into space, by observing celestial radio sources with the HALCA satellite, supported by a dedicated network of tracking stations, and arrays of ground radio telescopes from around the world.»

«Our conclusions are contrary to other recent work, but in line with the work of radio astronomers who see no new stars being born in this desert,» said Michael Feast, a co-author of the study, in the press release.

So that's made it easy for — and the reason I say radio astronomy is because I'm following this one specific group of radio astronomers for another project and I've seen how off - the - shelf consumer electronics has really made their mission possible.

«A lot of radio astronomers are very excited.»

Fortunately, a team of radio astronomers led by Bill Junor at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, had access to just such a telescope: the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA).

Then in 2011, a team of radio astronomers led by Matthew Bailes of Australia's Swinburne University of Technology found a third planetary system around a pulsar, one unlike either of the previous two.

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In 1974, U.S. astronomers Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor discovered a pair of radio - emitting neutron stars called pulsars orbiting each other.

Astronomer Heino Falcke plans to use a global network of radio telescopes to snap the black hole at the Milky Way's heart

Astronomers captured the merging of neutron stars in various types of light, including ultraviolet, infrared and radio waves (above), as well as via gravitational waves — a first.

If astronomers act quickly, they can turn other instruments toward the point of origin and record a rapidly fading afterglow of x-rays, visible light and radio waves.

Such an excess first emerged in the late 1960s and was mapped in 1981 by Glyn Haslam of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, but few astronomers thought much of it until now.

Those shifts would occur over years, but radio astronomers already have 30 years of data they can search through, she says.

SETI astronomers are swinging their radio dishes towards the star in the hope of confirming the beacon, but have so far drawn a blank.

Last week at the American Astronomical Society's meeting, astronomers announced the detection of a second type of radio static from the heavens, and although it may not come from an era quite as ancient as TV snow does, it may probe the period immediately afterward — an equally mysterious time when the first stars and black holes were lighting up.

«With ALMA we can see that there's a direct link between these radio bubbles inflated by the supermassive black hole and the future fuel for galaxy growth,» said Helen Russell, an astronomer with the University of Cambridge, UK, and lead author on a paper appearing in the Astrophysical Journal.

«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..

Fast radio bursts, which astronomers refer to as FRBs, were first discovered in 2007, and in the years since radio astronomers have detected a few dozen of these events.

In fact, Swift X-ray and optical observations were carried out two days after FRB 131104, thanks to prompt analysis by radio astronomers (who were not aware of the gamma - ray counterpart) and a nimble response from the Swift mission operations team, headquartered at Penn State.

In February 2017, pinpointing the locations of FRBs will become much easier for astronomers with the commissioning of the Deep Synoptic Array prototype, an array of 10 radio dishes at Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory in Califoradio dishes at Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory in CalifoRadio Observatory in California.

This result helps astronomers understand the workings of the cosmic «thermostat» that controls the launching of radio jets from the supermassive black hole.

AUSTIN, TEXAS — A freshly reprocessed image from 27 radio telescopes has given astronomers their largest and clearest view yet of the turbulent core of the Milky Way.

The likeliest mechanism is the arrival of a second massive black hole during a galaxy collision, say Merritt and his colleague, radio astronomer Ron Ekers of the Australia Telescope National Facility in Sydney.

The team also analyzed the radio waves in a new way, revealing that what looked like individual bursts were actually composed of many smaller sub-bursts, says astronomer Andrew Seymour of the Universities Space Research Association at Arecibo.

«If you have young magnetars that have just been born in supernova explosions, only a few decades old, they could be very bursty objects, have very violent youths, and that could give rise to repeating fast radio bursts,» says astronomer Brian Metzger of Columbia University, who was not involved in the new study.

The display is «magnificent,» says radio astronomer K. R. Anantharamiah of the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, India, who helped collect the original data during visits to New Mexico in the 1980s.

Ten years ago, radio astronomers at the Very Large Array in Socorro, New Mexico — a Y - shaped bank of telescopes made famous in the movie Contact — tried to capture this large region in a single image.

To sharpen that vision, astronomers used the Very Long Baseline Array of 10 radio telescopes spread across North America.

Astronomers are racing to figure out what causes powerful bursts of radio light in the distant cosmos

Astronomers have known since 1968 that a pulsar — an ultradense neutron star left behind when the star's core collapsed — spins 30 times per second within the Crab's expanding cloud of debris, emitting a lighthouse beam of radio waves.

asks Tom Bania, a radio astronomer at Boston University involved in some of the southern surveys.

«The biggest mystery around fast radio bursts is how such powerful and short - duration bursts are emitted,» says astronomer Daniele Michilli of the University of Amsterdam.

Using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), an interlinked system of 10 radio telescopes stretching across Hawaii, North America and the Caribbean, the astronomers have directly measured the distance to an object called G007.47 +00.05, a star - forming region located on the opposite side of the galaxy from our solar system.

Now, astronomers have overcome that problem by tracking bright spots of radio emission from the Triangulum Galaxy — also known as M33 — which the new study locates at 2.4 million light years from Earth.

Using a jet of radio waves, astronomers have begun to map the other side of the Milky Way.

In 1974, astronomers Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor detected a binary pulsar, a pair of two dead stars emitting pulses of radio waves.

«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.

«Millisecond pulsars have extremely predictable arrival times, and our instruments are able to measure them to within a ten - millionth of a second,» said Maura McLaughlin, a radio astronomer at West Virginia University in Morgantown and member of the NANOGrav team.

True, astronomers still don't know the origins of these extragalactic milliseconds - long radio pulses, and until this year fewer than 20 had ever been detected.

Jodie Foster believably evokes the psychology of a real scientist as rarely shown on screen when she plays Ellie Arroway, a dedicated radio astronomer.

«One could think that the topic of her own research work... is so fascinating and at the same time so difficult that one could work on it a life long,» Michael Grewing, an astronomer retired from the Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique in Grenoble, France, writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

Pinpointing the sources of gravitational waves will allow astronomers to point other telescopes their way, boosting the chances of learning more about them via x-rays, gamma - rays, radio waves, neutrinos and more.

«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 most powerful radio telescope in the world, an international team of astronomers has set out to look for answers in the star L2 Puppis.

Astronomers see them as steady pulses of radio energy.

With its radio link to Earth severed, Cassini's last «transmission» will be the light from this fireball, a modest blaze of glory that astronomers might glimpse from Earth.

Radio astronomers are truly in a Catch 22 - situation and they would not have the advantage that the optical astronomers could gain from better use of lighting.

Last week researchers reported they had traced a cosmic blast of radio waves back to its source for the first time — but now another team of fast - acting astronomers has called the result into question.

Professor Andreas Wicenec, head of the Data Intensive Astronomy team at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, said the limiting factor for radio astronomers used to be the size of the telescope and the hardware behinRadio Astronomy Research, said the limiting factor for radio astronomers used to be the size of the telescope and the hardware behinradio astronomers used to be the size of the telescope and the hardware behind it.

If the signals generated were transmitted only from the ground, radio astronomers could seek remote sites and use the shielding property of the Earth's curvature or the shelter of hills.