Sentences with phrase «radio astronomers from»

One fun bit of synchronicity: I met a radio astronomer from the Netherlands, and she uses Breakthrough Listen data to search for fast radio bursts, or FRBs.

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And another thing coming from a radio astronomer and particle physics nerd.

By finding places in the sky where radio telescopes pick up these 21 - centimeter emissions, astronomers can identify light from faraway, hydrogen - rich regions so ancient they date back to the era when stars were starting to form.

For several decades astronomers have been sweeping the skies with radio telescopes hoping to stumble across a message from ET.

Last week at the American Astronomical Society's meeting, astronomers announced the detection of a second type of radio static from the heavens, and although it may not come from an era quite as ancient as TV snow does, it may probe the period immediately afterward — an equally mysterious time when the first stars and black holes were lighting up.

The astronomers favored this scenario based on the information they gathered from using the radio telescopes.

Astronomers using the VLA, along with the Australia Telescope Compact Array and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope in India, regularly observed the object from September onward.

In fact, Swift X-ray and optical observations were carried out two days after FRB 131104, thanks to prompt analysis by radio astronomers (who were not aware of the gamma - ray counterpart) and a nimble response from the Swift mission operations team, headquartered at Penn State.

This result helps astronomers understand the workings of the cosmic «thermostat» that controls the launching of radio jets from the supermassive black hole.

AUSTIN, TEXAS — A freshly reprocessed image from 27 radio telescopes has given astronomers their largest and clearest view yet of the turbulent core of the Milky Way.

Astronomers used a radio telescope called the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) to look for organic molecules in the Large Magellanic Cloud, located about 160,000 light - years from Earth.

Using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), an interlinked system of 10 radio telescopes stretching across Hawaii, North America and the Caribbean, the astronomers have directly measured the distance to an object called G007.47 +00.05, a star - forming region located on the opposite side of the galaxy from our solar system.

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

Now, astronomers have overcome that problem by tracking bright spots of radio emission from the Triangulum Galaxy — also known as M33 — which the new study locates at 2.4 million light years from Earth.

For astronomers who observe the universe through radio waves generated by stars and galaxies, interference from an Earth - based source can easily drown out any far - off signal.

Just as radio channels close to each other in frequency can bleed into one another, creating static, so too can radio interference from different technologies bleed into the channels astronomers use to observe.

Mysterious radio wave flashes from far outside the galaxy are proving tough for astronomers to explain.

«One could think that the topic of her own research work... is so fascinating and at the same time so difficult that one could work on it a life long,» Michael Grewing, an astronomer retired from the Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique in Grenoble, France, writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

With its radio link to Earth severed, Cassini's last «transmission» will be the light from this fireball, a modest blaze of glory that astronomers might glimpse from Earth.

Radio astronomers are truly in a Catch 22 - situation and they would not have the advantage that the optical astronomers could gain from better use of lighting.

If the signals generated were transmitted only from the ground, radio astronomers could seek remote sites and use the shielding property of the Earth's curvature or the shelter of hills.

The Search for Extraterrestrial Radio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations (SERENDIP) has scanned billions of radio sources in the Milky Way by piggybacking receivers on antennas in use by observational astronomers, including AreRadio Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations (SERENDIP) has scanned billions of radio sources in the Milky Way by piggybacking receivers on antennas in use by observational astronomers, including Areradio sources in the Milky Way by piggybacking receivers on antennas in use by observational astronomers, including Arecibo.

Using the world's largest radio telescope, two astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia have detected the faint signal emitted by atomic hydrogen gas in galaxies three billion light years from Earth, breaking the previous record distance by 500 million light years.

Astronomers have produced a highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula, by combining data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio waves seen by the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to the powerful X-ray glow as seen by the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory.

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.

Fast radio bursts, which flash for just a few milliseconds, created a stir among astronomers because they seemed to be coming from outside our galaxy, which means they would have to be very powerful to be seen from Earth, and because none of those first observed were ever seen again.

One of the rare and brief bursts of cosmic radio waves that have puzzled astronomers since they were first detected nearly 10 years ago has finally been tied to a source: an older dwarf galaxy more than 3 billion light years from Earth.

An interdisciplinary team of UvA physicists and astronomers proposed to search for primordial black holes in our galaxy by studying the X-ray and radio emission that these objects would produce as they wander through the galaxy and accrete gas from the interstellar medium.

In spite of the recent detection of gravitational waves from binary black holes by LIGO, direct evidence using electromagnetic waves remains elusive and astronomers are searching for it with radio telescopes.

«What we're seeing is a star that is the cosmic equivalent of «Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,» with the ability to change from one form to its more intense counterpart with startling speed,» said Scott Ransom, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Va. «Though we have known that X-ray binaries — some of which are observed as X-ray pulsars — can evolve over millions of years to become rapidly spinning radio pulsars, we were surprised to find one that seemed to swing so quickly between the two.&rRadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Va. «Though we have known that X-ray binaries — some of which are observed as X-ray pulsars — can evolve over millions of years to become rapidly spinning radio pulsars, we were surprised to find one that seemed to swing so quickly between the two.&rradio pulsars, we were surprised to find one that seemed to swing so quickly between the two.»

Lawrence Rudnick, the astronomer who led the team that found the void, was studying data from the Very Large Array, a network of 27 radio antennas in New Mexico, when he spotted a gap in the constellation Eridanus where radio signals from galaxies appear unusually faint.

Last February a team of astronomers reported detecting an afterglow from a mysterious event called a fast radio burst, which would pinpoint the precise position of the burst's origin, a longstanding goal in studies of these mysterious events.

Staring at a small patch of sky for more than 50 hours with the ultra-sensitive Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have for the first time identified discrete sources that account for nearly all the radio waves coming from distant galaxies.

New research by Harvard astronomers Peter Williams and Edo Berger shows that the radio emission believed to be an afterglow actually originated from a distant galaxy's core and was unassociated with the fast radio burst.

When looking through 15 - year - old radio data from several observatories in 2013, astronomers found clumpy segments along a ring shape in our galaxy; when they searched for it in visible light, they came up empty.

Upon closer examination of the data — compiled from nearly 500 hours of observation by the 64 - meter Parkes radio telescope in Australia — a team led by astronomer Duncan Lorimer of West Virginia University in Morgantown estimated that the blast actually came from about 3 billion light - years away.

Astronomers had already recorded intensity flare ups in the radio region which originated from events in the blazar.

In 2009, astronomers recorded radio waves coming from the HAT - P - 11 system that ceased when the planet slipped behind its star, suggesting the planet was the source of the signal.

Radio astronomers have detected such radiation from Sagittarius A *.

Astronomers also discovered weak, long - lasting radio emissions coming from within 130 light - years of FRB 121102, suggesting the two are related — though we don't know how, if at all.

Despite the large and growing catalog of space chemicals coming from the radio observatories, astronomer J. Mayo Greenberg of the University of Leiden in the Netherlands suspected that his colleagues were missing a vital piece of the puzzle.

The concept has a long history: In 1974 astronomer Frank Drake used the Arecibo radio telescope to broadcast the first deliberate message from Earth to outer space.

The astronomers found that the radio waves from the quasar are polarised — that is, the waves vibrate preferentially in one direction.

«The event was there, we know it happened — we know it from several independent sources — and the descriptions are very similar,» says Roland Kothes, an astronomer at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory in British Columbia.

An international team of astronomers led from Chalmers University of Technology has used the giant radio telescope Lofar to create the sharpest astronomical image ever taken at very long radio wavelengths.

Astronomers from MIT and ASU have detected faint radio signals coming from the Cosmic Dawn — the time when the first stars began to flicker on (Credit: CSIRO Australia)

The repeating bursts from this object, named FRB 121102 after the date of the initial burst, allowed astronomers to watch for it using the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), a multi-antenna radio telescope system with the resolving power, or ability to see fine detail, needed to precisely determine the object's location in the sky.

At times in this first Radio Ecoshock interview, particularly on questions involving comets or astronomy, Joanne is relaying answers from another paper co-author, the Scottish astronomer Dr. William «Bill» Napier.

«The radio emission these students discovered coming from this brown dwarf is 10,000 times stronger than anyone expected,» said Dale Frail, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorroradio emission these students discovered coming from this brown dwarf is 10,000 times stronger than anyone expected,» said Dale Frail, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in SocorroRadio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Socorro, NM.

«Many astronomers are surprised at this discovery, because they didn't expect such strong radio emission from this object,» said Shri Kulkarni, a Caltech professor who was on the team that first discovered a brown dwarf in 1995, and advisor to one of the students.