Sentences with phrase «on precision measurements»

«So there's a lot riding on precision measurements to see if their properties are what is predicted by supersymmetry or not.»

«We've been waiting for this for 30 years,» says Thomas Udem, an experimental physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, who works on precision measurements of hydrogen.

Not exact matches

The precision of previous measurements based on hydrogen atoms was limited by uncertainties related to the internal structure of the proton inside its nucleus.

The precision of the measurement is such that «a snail crawling on Mars would appear to be moving across the surface more than 100 times faster than the motion we measured for this galaxy,» says Reid.

Those measurements — and the next era of precision cosmology — are on the way.

The speed and pace of those measurements promise to add an increment of precision to GPS navigation, and ROMY may even be able to detect a subtle effect predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity: the drag of the rotating planet on nearby spacetime, like a spoon turned in a pot of honey.

Four days after its launch on 17 January, the Jason - 3 high - precision ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science Team.

On the other hand, in magnetic field confinement fusion plasma intended for a fusion reactor, which research is being conducted at the National Institute for Fusion Science, development of high precision electron density measurements is becoming an important research topic.

The new measurement is a high - precision count of two forms of argon gas — Argon - 36 and Argon -38-accomplished by the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument on Curiosity.

Earth - based observations in 2003 indicated plumes of methane on Mars (red), but higher - precision measurements on the planet's surface find no such gas.

He says the precision of the measurements obtained so far in krypton gas has encouraged the team to move on to tritium — a goal Formaggio says may be attainable in the next year or two — and pave a path toward measuring the mass of the neutrino.

Müller has used atom interferometry to make precision measurements of relativistic effects, measurements that rely not on counting individual oscillations but on tracking the interference between two waves.

«It opens a new era of precision measurement on antihydrogen.»

«In a sense, this is the first precision measurement done on antihydrogen, because the measurement exceeds anything that could be inferred from previous measurements,» Fajans said.

In the time since the 2007 version of this report, the human effect on the climate has grown more than 40 percent stronger, thanks to continued emissions of greenhouse gases and more precision in measurements, with carbon dioxide leading the charge.

The new measurement is a high - precision count of two forms of argon gas — Argon - 36 and Argon - 38 — accomplished by the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument on Curiosity.

Also, the greater precision of the newer measurement of the Hubble Constant provides increased constraints on the nature of the «dark energy» discussed in the cosmology chapter.

On top of that we have shown how this material enables us to measure properties of Majorana particles never measured before — and carry out these measurements with great precision», explains Fabrizio Nichele.

Finally, we present catalogs of Pan-STARRS1 proper motions for low - mass members of Taurus and Upper Scorpius with median precisions of $ \ approx $ 3 mas yr $ ^ -LCB--1 -RCB- $, including 67 objects with no previous proper motion and 359 measurements that improve on literature values.

When we first embarked on this project we were told unequivocally that precision radial velocity measurements were impossible at the amateur level and required the funding and resources of an institution.

The tick marks serve as stable reference points when making precision measurements such as those of the small shifts in starlight caused by planets pulling gravitationally on their parent stars.

Currently the team is concentrating on extrasolar planet discovery and characterization, precision measurement of stellar chemical abundances, and precise mapping of the Milky Way and of large - scale cosmological structure.

This signature Translational Science Model (TSM) is characterized by precision in definition and measurement, a rapid - cycle iterative approach to improving programs, and a relentless focus on identifying what works best (and least or not at all) for whom and why.

As per the American Statistical Association's (ASA) recently released «Statement on P - Values,» statistical significance «is not equivalent to scientific, human, or economic significance... Any effect, no matter how tiny, can produce a small p - value [i.e., «statistical significance»] if the sample size or measurement precision is high enough» (p. 10); hence, one must always check for practical significance when making claims about statistical significance, like Kane et al. actually do here, but do here in a similar inflated vein.

The variabilities on the graph show higher precision measurements and inferences from tree rings etc..

As the Dow Jones average selects a certain set of industries based on qualities related to company size, longevity, quality of financials, weighted simply by market price, etc. one could select a set of temperature records based on the precision and accuracy of the instrument, the transparency of its record keeping, the suitability of its measurement protocols, perhaps weighted by the accuracy of the instrument, etc..

«In addition, we are currently developing a method that also allows for high - precision hydrogen isotopic measurements on methane in ice cores, which will further improve our emission flux constraints,» revealed Fischer.

Yes, we all understand, there is always a finite limitation on the precision of a measurement, which results in uncertainty, and this may be increased by finite limitations on the accuracy of the measurement.

An engineer learns early on about precision measurements and how to deal with them.

However, I conducted an experiment in which I made observations that had a precision of 1 cm and found that the average of those measurements was much closer on three separate occasions to the average of the more precise observations than 1 cm.

I think Parker's papers tend to minimize the temperature measurement uncertainties whereas the antithesis would allow for more uncertainties that might put more emphasis on the satellite and SST measurements and better insuring the accuracies and precisions of those methods.

We can check on that using Spectral Calc, a program that allows us to calculate the spectrum based on precision and verified measurements.

Maintaining a high - precision Jason - type altimeter in non-Sun-synchronous orbit (to mitigate the impact of tidal aliasing on sea level measurements) complemented by at least two other altimeter missions (Sentinel - 3 will be one) in a Sun - synchronous orbit.