Sentences with phrase «of radio telescopes»

Thanks to the amazing precision possible with the network of radio telescopes, the scientists were able to search for signs of motion in the jet, despite its huge distance.

Next, see an image of a radio telescope at night.

As the object went below the horizon for one set of radio telescopes, it was rising for the next set, allowing continuous imaging for the 56 - hour period.

The posts supported a network of several thousand metres of metallic wires formed the antenna of the radio telescope.

Alberto Sanna of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, and his colleagues used the Very Long Baseline Array of radio telescopes in New Mexico to track a star - forming region in the outer Scutum - Centaurus spiral arm, which is on the opposite side of the Milky Way from the local arm where the sun resides.

The new research into its cause, published in the latest issue of the Astrophysical Journal, used vast networks of radio telescopes in the UK and across Europe including the seven telescopes of e-MERLIN operated from The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory.

«Big science needs a lot of compute power — right now we're designing systems to manage data for several large facilities around the world and the next generation of radio telescopes, including China's 500m radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array and the SKA's pathfinder telescopes that are already up and running in outback Western Australia.»

In particular, VLBI (very long baseline interferometry) uses a global network of radio telescopes spread across different continents to form a virtual Earth - sized telescope.

Known as FRB 121102, its location on the sky has now been monitored for many tens of hours by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in Socorro, New Mexico (an array of 27 radio dishes), and the European VLBI Network (EVN)-- a continent - wide collaboration of radio telescopes.

The development of the radio telescope, with a range thousands of times greater than that of the optical telescope, can give us information of certain happenings in the universe millions of light - years away.

Since the launch of Cassini - Huygens, the sensitivity of radio telescopes on Earth had improved so much, he realized, that it might be possible to conduct the experiment from the ground as well.

The four new telescopes will form part of the worldwide network of radio telescopes known as VGOS (Very Long Baseline Interferometry 2010 Global Observing System).

The instrument is a kind of radio telescope consisting of six antennas of increasing size, each tuned for a specific wavelength from 1.37 centimeters to 50 centimeters.

It will incorporate thousands of radio telescope dishes across vast expanses of southern Africa and Australia, but to test out techniques, astronomers are building precursors in both host countries.

The position of radio telescopes will be pinpointed with a precision to approximately one millimeter — a tenfold improvement in accuracy.

Using super-distant, super-bright radio sources, such as quasars, as a wallpaper of stable reference points, this system of radio telescopes helped scientists measure the tiny shifts in the Earth's crust caused by continental drift and clock the movements of the atmosphere and oceans.

A second camera is mounted on the corner of the station showing a view of the radio telescopes in the area known as the Dark Sector, so named for its restrictions on light and radio interference that might affect the sensitive instruments installed there.

Keith Tyson's work is named after the Very Large Array (VLA), a field of Radio Telescopes in New Mexico.

Nestled in the allegheny mountains that border Virginia, a 2,700 - acre complex of radio telescopes has served as a portal to deep space for more than 50 years.

One example of the kind of progress that might be possible within a constrained budget is the ongoing upgrade to the Very Large Array (VLA), a chain of radio telescopes in New Mexico funded by NSF.

Now this speed of increase in the collecting area of radio telescopes on Earth is roughly two orders of magnitude per century....

We don't want brain and data drain from Africa to the U.S.» The biggest game - changer on the continent will be the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the world's largest network of radio telescopes designed to survey the sky faster than any instrument before it.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943 --RRB- With the aid of a radio telescope she built herself, she became the first astronomer to detect pulsars — rapidly spinning, extremely dense neutron stars.

Using a large antenna from NASA's Deep Space Network of radio telescopes tuned in to a special transponder on Juno provided by the Italian Space Agency, the team repeatedly searched for any unexplained anomalies in the spacecraft's trajectory.

Fu and his team located the quasars in March 2016 with the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA), a bank of radio telescopes located more than 16,000 feet above sea level in northern Chile.

NASA's Deep Space Network of radio telescopes received the explorer's last faint signal on 22 January from a distance of 12.3 billion kilometers.

Only in the Brobdingnagian world of radio telescopes could RadioAstron be considered something of a runt.

Using an unusual configuration of radio telescopes to detect particles the size of pebbles, Greaves found a dense clump in the disk of gas and dust surrounding the star.

A network of radio telescopes providing information on radio bursts is run by the US Air Force's Radio Solar Telescope Network.

The dish of the radio telescope based in Yebes, Spain, measures more than 13 meters across.

The SKA will also be the first astronomy project gathering three of the five major emerging national economies: India, China, and South Africa — the last of which will host the core of the radio telescope in its Karoo Desert.

But, when we compare the eyesight between an optical and a radio telescope with the same size of aperture, the vision of a radio telescope is equivalent to only 1/10, 000 of an optical telescope.

These networks of radio telescopes use sophisticated computer and communication technology called very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) to function as single continent spanning telescopes - the greatest eyes - on - the - sky ever created.

This discovery pushes the boundaries of radio telescope sensitivity for discovering pulsars, and will enable scientists to conduct observations that could lead to a better understanding of how these stars evolve.

Astronomers using a global combination of radio telescopes to study a stellar explosion some 30 million light - years from Earth have likely discovered either the youngest black hole or the youngest neutron star known in the Universe.

The astronomers used the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a system of radio telescopes stretching from Hawaii to the Caribbean, to follow daily changes in a binary - star system called SS 433, some 15,000 light - years from Earth in the constellation Aquila.

Dawodang, Kedu Town was eventually selected as the site of the radio telescope in no small part thanks to the presence of the surrounding mountain formation, which will act to sheild FAST's delicate instrumentation from local radio disturbances.

In Radio Astronomy: Observing the Invisible Universe, Dr. Lockman takes you on an exciting virtual tour of radio telescopes.

In the 1960s, we wanted to build an array of radio telescopes called an interferometer that simulates a larger telescope from the combined observations of strategically - aligned smaller ones.

IMAGE: Artistic composition of the radio telescopes in space and on the ground observing NGC 1275, the central galaxy of the Perseus cluster of galaxies at a distance of 230 million... view more

«By the 1980s, radio astronomers were observing the universe with assemblages of radio telescopes whose resolving power was limited only by the size of the Earth.

Scientists at MIT and other institutions are using a method called VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) to link a group of radio telescopes spread across the globe into what is, in effect, a telescope the size of our planet.

The next generation of radio telescopes, such as the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, under construction in Chile, should have an easier time finding these molecules, adds co-author Karl Menten.

The extraterrestrial - hunting SETI Institute is aiming its array of radio telescopes at 20,000 small, cold stars unlike our own to see if anyone is home

This is a low angle view of a radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

The Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) joins for the first time the Global mm - VLBI Array (GMVA) and the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), Earth - sized virtual observatories, which are made possible by an international collaboration of radio telescopes.

A team has made use of a collection of radio telescopes known as the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), which is centered in the Netherlands but has outposts in several other northern European countries.

In addition to its work for the NSF, the VLA site is also playing an important role in the development of another radio telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA).