Sentences with phrase «of radio signals»

This leakage refers to the general emission of radio signals a civilization gives off through its various technologies, rather than powerful, highly focused signals intentionally designed to get another planet's attention.

The sudden slowdown should be accompanied by a distinctive pattern of radio signals and particle flows, but detecting it was no simple matter.

The satellite also calculates their position based on the distance and direction of the radio signal.

Some sort of radio signal has been picked up, and you're answering the call.

The technology was made to capture the maximum amount of radio signals without compromising the function or clarity of phone transmissions.

The idea is to use visible and infrared light instead of radio signals to create a wireless internet network, creating a (theoretically) more stable alternative to crowded Wi - Fi channels.

Confirmation came from a planned loss of radio signal from the spacecraft.

'' The broadcast will have the widest coverage of any radio signal in Africa.

«If you could measure the frequency of this radio signal, you could measure the energy potentially much more accurately than you can with any other method,» Furse says.

Surely we would not ask the astrophysicists who study the «noise» of the radio signals coming from outer space if it might be interpreted as a cosmic groan.

Note the governing body: the FCC, which governs transmissions of radio signals only in the US.

Instead of such circuits, an SDR uses digital - signal - processing chips to allow a programmer to define the wave shape of a radio signal, the frequency it uses and the power level.

«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 Caltech.

But the giant telescopes stare at such small parts of the sky that they miss most sudden belches of radio signals.

Such regions include areas where molecules of water and methanol act as natural amplifiers of radio signals — masers, the radio - wave equivalent of lasers for light waves.

That's key to detecting precession, because during each eclipse astronomers can determine the precise angle of the radio signal and therefore the pulsar's wobble over time.

Lorimer says his team next plans to reexamine the Parkes data, as well as other archives of radio signals, to see if similar bursts turn up.

Achieving the goal of improved wireless performance is particularly challenging indoors because of the complex interactions of radio signals with the environment.

By precisely measuring the orbital movements of MESSENGER using the subtle Doppler frequency shifts of its radio signal, geodesist David Smith of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and 16 colleagues measured how the pull of gravity varies across Mercury, as the team reports online today in Science.

Neither instrument could interpret the telemetry data, but the nature of the radio signals alone offered some insight into the lander's descent.

The characteristics of the radio signal — how it is «smeared out» in frequency from travelling through space — indicate that the source of the new burst was up to 5.5 billion light - years away.

Our devices are much smaller than any other sources of radio signals, and can be put on the same chip that's used for data processing.»

We could decipher those changes on the basis of the radio signals.»

Now, analysis of more than a decade's worth of radio signals has nailed down the masses.

Instead of broadcasting its own signal, a passive radar system listens in to the cacophony of radio signals in the environment and monitors the way moving objects change them.

While most ETI searches, including those at the Institute, look for the simplest kind of radio signals, he and other scientists are working on techniques to capture more general classes of signals: signals that contain a message from our stellar neighbors.

Hasegawa: The first reception of radio signals from a protoplanetary disk was made by the Nobeyama 45 - m Telescope in 1993.

Physics and political science senior David Narkevic had been looking through readouts of radio signals from the Parkes Radio Telescope in Australia.

Employed to seek out intelligent life on other planets, Zane Zaminski (Charlie Sheen) gets his first big break in the form of a radio signal.

Listening to each individual part in turn, you must hold the sound of one ringing note in your memory in order to compare it to another sound, just as your sense of each radio signal is interrupted as your position changes, and the relative power of all signals shift.

While strength of a radio signal remains important, it pales in comparison to the quality of programming.

SETI@Home launched in 1999 as a means of distributing the computational workload that analyzing dozens of terabytes of radio signal data generated by the Arecibo telescope across hundreds of thousands of personal desktop computers.

The system detects motions based on the disruption of radio signals inside your home, but our reviewer discovered that it also disrupted many of his other smart home devices.

Three images, left to right, of the same thundercloud depict a less - than -10-milliseconds-long sequence of events: (left) formation within the cloud of a small channel, or «leader,» of electrical conductivity (yellow line) with weak emission of radio signals (ripples), to (middle) a burst of both dark lightning (pink) and radio waves (larger ripples), to (right) a discharge of bright lightning and more radio waves.

The number of wave crests arriving from Fast Radio Bursts per second — their «frequency» — is in the same range as that of radio signals.

The technology works by using circuitry to convert some of the radio signals from a phone into direct current (DC) power and using it to charge the phone's battery.