Sentences with phrase «radio astronomers»

Some in the astronomy community specifically credit radio astronomers for facilitating such international open access.

European radio astronomers were the first to outline the basic rationale for such a telescope over ten years ago.

Other radio astronomers are working to answer myriad questions about dark matter, fast radio bursts, and much more.

Those shifts would occur over years, but radio astronomers already have 30 years of data they can search through, she says.

For that, mainstream radio astronomers will have to be onboard — or we'll be feeling alone in the universe a long time indeed.

That explains why radio astronomers have found more complex molecules in the warmer, more active star - birthing regions of dust clouds than in the colder, darker areas.

Drake was a young radio astronomer at the time, working at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia.

That year, a team led by radio astronomer Duncan Lorimer of West Virginia University in Morgantown accidentally found the first FRB by analyzing old observations of the 64 - meter radio telescope in Parkes, Australia.

Greater ability to see detail, called resolving power, has been a quest of radio astronomers for more than half a century.

«Our conclusions are contrary to other recent work, but in line with the work of radio astronomers who see no new stars being born in this desert,» said Michael Feast, a co-author of the study, in the press release.

«Even if the first images are still crappy and washed out, we can already test for the first time some basic predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity in the extreme environment of a black hole,» says radio astronomer Heino Falcke of Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

The cosmic call is only the second intentional interstellar broadcast ever made; U.S. radio astronomer Frank Drake sent the first one in 1974.

The week 18 - 22 September 2017 is scheduled with exciting presentations from 34 young radio astronomers from Europe, South Korea, Russia and South Africa.

The European Radio Interferometry School (ERIS) is a bi-annual graduate level school that forms a fundamental part of the training and development of young radio astronomers.

The more radio astronomers learn about fast radio bursts (FRBs), the more confused they get.

Then in 2011, a team of radio astronomers led by Matthew Bailes of Australia's Swinburne University of Technology found a third planetary system around a pulsar, one unlike either of the previous two.

Radio astronomers revealed that the first gamma - ray burster ever detected at radio wavelengths has surprised them by its erratic behavior.

Radio astronomers discovered intense belts of radiation surrounding Jupiter created by electrons trapped in its powerful magnetic field — 10x the Earth's!

In the early days of the NRAO, the late 1950s, eager American radio astronomers wanted a giant radio telescope to call their own.

Yet it somehow devours only a tiny fraction of its available food supply — a smorgasbord of gas and dust cast off by nearby stars, notes radio astronomer Heino Falcke of Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.

«It is not actually what radio astronomers do.

Radio astronomer Mark Reid's work to map the Milky Way galaxy may be set back a year by the closure of U.S. radio telescopes.

A lot of research projects were disrupted as radio astronomers around the world commandeered anything suitable.

For radio astronomers seeking a detailed study of a near - Earth asteroid, last February proved a perfect opportunity.

First developed by British radio astronomers in 1946, arrays make use of several radio telescopes spaced some distance apart, «synthesizing» a single telescope with an aperture equal to the spacing between the farthest elements.

Studying these molecules gives radio astronomers a very accurate «snapshot» of the material from which our Solar System, including Earth, was formed.

«ALMA is a 30 years - long dream for Japanese radio astronomers,» added Masahiko Hayashi, NAOJ's Director General.

The Green Bank Observatory Radio Astronomer for a Day program provides an authentic research experience for students in grades 5 and up.

Radio astronomers don't know.

For Diamond, a 35 - year radio astronomer, his key interest is not in the extraterrestrial but rather how our own galaxy has evolved.

Radio astronomers search instead for the gravitational signals from these binaries.

Learn about pulsars from renowned radio astronomers Maura McLaughlin and Duncan Lorimer, and get your hands on some data!

For Dr. Bernie Fanaroff, a distinguished radio astronomer who until 2015 led South Africa's SKA Project and currently acts at the project's strategic adviser, science diplomacy is paramount.

The English radio astronomer at West Virginia University had asked an undergraduate, David Narkovic, to comb through pulsar survey data from the Parkes Observatory in Australia.

Fast radio bursts, which astronomers refer to as FRBs, were first discovered in 2007, and in the years since radio astronomers have detected a few dozen of these events.

The likeliest mechanism is the arrival of a second massive black hole during a galaxy collision, say Merritt and his colleague, radio astronomer Ron Ekers of the Australia Telescope National Facility in Sydney.

The display is «magnificent,» says radio astronomer K. R. Anantharamiah of the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore, India, who helped collect the original data during visits to New Mexico in the 1980s.

The flares were as bright as any other radio source in the galaxy's dynamic core, including the turbulent remnants of supernova explosions, says radio astronomer Scott Hyman of Sweet Briar College in Virginia.

«Since gamma ray bursts are usually so well behaved, this really stood out,» says radio astronomer Dale Frail of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Soccorro, New Mexico.

Jodie Foster believably evokes the psychology of a real scientist as rarely shown on screen when she plays Ellie Arroway, a dedicated radio astronomer.

(Those reflectors were knocked askew by Hurricane George in 1998, says Cornell radio astronomer Donald Campbell.)

In a pair of papers in the 1 November issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, radio astronomer Nichi D'Amico of the Bologna Astronomical Observatory in Italy and his colleagues report that the pulsar's faint radio blips disappear during nearly half of its orbit, presumably eclipsed by a shroud of gas from its companion.

It packed as much energy in its mere 5 - millisecond duration as the sun puts out in a month, making it by far the strongest, quickest signal radio astronomers have observed, although it wasn't nearly as powerful as the elusive gamma ray bursts that populate the universe.

Discovering molecules like amino acetonitrile is a big deal, because it's not easy for them to materialize in the extreme temperatures of space, says radio astronomer Anthony Remijan of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia: «Too hot and they are destroyed, too cold and they can't form.»

Whatever caused the signal, «it's bound to be exciting,» says radio astronomer Lawrence Rudnick of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

It is so much like the Sun that in 1960 radio astronomers chose it as their first target in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

In 1974, radio astronomers Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor, then of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, found just such a system: a pair of dense neutron stars in orbit around each other.

For example, the Spitzer infrared astronomers favour a two major arm model because red giant stars (which emit a lot of infrared) are largely confined to the Perseus and Centaurus arms, whereas radio astronomers tend to favour a four major arm model because radio telescopes can detect atomic hydrogen in all four arms.