Sentences with phrase «radio astronomers who»

«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.

Radio astronomers are aware in the back of their minds that if there are other civilizations out there in space, it might be the radio astronomers who first pick up the signal.

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.

Following the announcement, every radio astronomer who had access to the right equipment was observing the known pulsars and searching for more.

Not exact matches

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.

«If you have young magnetars that have just been born in supernova explosions, only a few decades old, they could be very bursty objects, have very violent youths, and that could give rise to repeating fast radio bursts,» says astronomer Brian Metzger of Columbia University, who was not involved in the new study.

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.

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.

«The era of gravitational wave astronomy is upon us,» says astronomer Scott Ransom of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va., who is not involved with LIGO.

The long lag before astronomers began to pick up radio and x-ray emissions supports that picture, says Raffaella Margutti, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, who studied the event with NASA's orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory.

The origin of a fast radio burst in this type of dwarf galaxy suggests a connection to other energetic events that occur in similar dwarf galaxies, said co-author and UC Berkeley astronomer Casey Law, who led development of the data - acquisition system and created the analysis software to search for rapid, one - off bursts.

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.

Next, they would reach out to astronomers around the world who could target the object with other radio telescopes.

«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.

The scientists who conducted the study include University of Chile astronomers Andrés Guzmán (principal researcher), Guido Garay (Astronomy Department Director), Leonardo Bronfman, and Diego Mardones, as well as Luis Rodríguez (UNAM Center for Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics), James M. Moran (Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Kate Brooks (Center for Astronomy and Space Science, CSIRO - Australia) and Lars - Ake Nyman (Joint ALMA Observatory).

«The mere fact that they detected radio emission is remarkable,» said Tim Bastian, an astronomer at the NRAO in Charlottesville, Virginia, who added that this object «will likely have something to teach us.»

Radio astronomer Robert Wilson recalls a pair of pigeons who almost thwarted the discovery of cosmic background radiation.

Astronomers using the Russian RATAN - 600 radio telescope have recorded «a strong signal in the direction of HD164595,» according to Centauri Dreams» Paul Gilster who has access to a document that is currently circulating behind the scenes.

The system includes not only the orbiting and ground - based antennas, but also the orbit determination, tracking stations, the correlator, and the image - processing software,» said Jonathan Romney, the NRAO astronomer who led the development of the VLBA correlator, and its enhancement to process data from orbiting radio telescopes.

A claim that the universe has a preferred direction is not supported by recent observational evidence, according to three astronomers who analyzed data from the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico and the WM Keck Telescope in Hawaii.

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