Sentences with phrase «radiation data collected»

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At a conference, another astronomer asked him if the center could archive a terabyte of data that had been collected from the MACHO sky survey, a project designed to study mysterious cosmic bodies that emit very little light or other radiation.

These structures collect visible light and transform it into infrared radiation (heat energy) that would show up as unexpected excesses in astronomers» data.

Data collected with the Hubble Space Telescope is helping astronomers map dark matter in space along with X-ray pictures of colliding galaxies, measurements of cosmic background radiation, and analysis of the way stars on the ends of galactic arms rotate.

Satellites collect data from the radiation emitted from the Big Bang, which is called the Cosmic Microwave Background, or CMB.

He says there is a slim chance of detection in another WISE data set at longer wavelengths — sensitive to cooler radiation — which was collected for 20 % of the sky.

«Collecting real - time data for material microstructural evolution during radiation exposure: Researchers have improved a versatile spectroscopy method to enable continuous monitoring of the properties of materials exposed to radiation — which could provide real - time information about a material's microstructural evolution.»

A partial list would include the Patterson function, isomorphous replacement, and anomalous scattering, which enabled the determination of organic structures; direct (i.e., purely computational) methods of phase determination, which enabled small - molecule crystallography to be almost totally automated; synchrotron radiation and area detectors, which together made it possible to collect data on macromolecular structures in hours instead of months; and automatic interpretation of electron density maps.

Data collected by the Curiosity rover, which roams the Red Planet, finds that surface space radiation levels there are high.

The scientific output of this endeavour is illustrated by six Nobel Prizes in Chemistry (Michel, Deisenhofer, Huber 1988; Walker 1997; McKinnon 2003; Kornberg 2006; Steitz, Yonath, Ramakrishnan 2009, Kobilka 2012), whose breakthroughs derive from diffraction data collected using synchrotron radiation.

Tissue Equivalent Proportional Counter (TEPC) to be deployed * All software development was in C and met all of NASA's flight - critical standards 2003 according to FARs 14 CFR Parts Interfaced with Low - level Linux drivers and FPGA hardware to collect radiation data to be used to protect the Health and Lives of Astronauts at the ISS.