Sentences with phrase «optical afterglows»

Two other teams, one lead by Derek Fox of Caltech and the other lead by Jens Hjorth of the University of Copenhagen, detected x-ray and optical afterglows from the burst.

(B) The burst leaves an optical afterglow.

Its optical afterglow was detected 84 hours after burst detection.

Another small proportion of GRBs exhibit comparatively short - duration bursts that average only 0.3 seconds and very little x-ray and optical afterglow (Gehrels et al, 2002).

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These telescopes, along with Swift's own UV / Optical Telescope and other robotic telescopes alerted by the satellites, monitored the six - week afterglow of visible light following the burst.

As the wave expands and the fire fades, the afterglow changes «color» from x-ray to optical light to radio waves.

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Using radio telescopes in Australia and optical telescopes in Hawaii, Keane and his colleagues detected an FRB and linked its fading afterglow to a host galaxy some six billion light - years from Earth.

Its three onboard instruments will observe GRBs and their afterglows in four different wavebands: gamma ray, X-ray, ultraviolet and optical.

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They also discovered that a monthlong afterglow followed the event that could be observed with instruments used to detect optical frequencies, x-rays or radio waves.

Quick follow - up observations undertaken with the 8.2 - m Antu instrument at European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in the Paranal and the 1.5 - meter Danish telescope at La Silla identified a faint, point - like object in visible light that was fading rapidly, the optical counterpart of the gamma - ray burst called the «afterglow» (Pedersen et al, 2000).

However, X-ray, optical and radio emission continues in an «afterglow.»

While the burst's afterglow showed a steady decline in brightness at both optical and X-ray wavelengths, that was not the case at radio wavelengths.