Sentences with phrase «radio measurements»

Using radio measurements taken by the Cassini spacecraft, which has been exploring the Saturnian system since 2004, along with ultraviolet auroral observations from the Earth - orbiting Hubble Space Telescope, Jonathan Nichols and his colleagues located a periodic pulsing in the auroral power that matches the ebb and flow of the so - called SKR.

Now new radio measurements and calculations by a team led by Stephen Ng of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, confirm this picture.

Drake's radio measurements for Jupiter were consistent with those from more sophisticated antennas, and he soon abandoned the device; however, his corner reflector interferometer helped him discover a high level of radio interference from vehicles and other electronics that the Observatory would need to tackle.

The GBI completed the first radio measurement that confirmed, to high accuracy, Einstein's prediction of the bending of light (i.e. any electromagnetic radiation) near a massive body, commonly called Einstein rings or gravitational lensing.

In 2011 Dame and colleagues used radio measurements to tentatively trace the path of one spiral arm, called Scutum — Centaurus.

Mooley and his colleagues posted a paper with their radio measurements, their favored scenario for the event, and this prediction online on November 30.

«If the radio waves and X-rays both are coming from an expanding cocoon, we realized that our radio measurements meant that, when NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory could observe once again, it would find the X-rays, like the radio waves, had increased in strength,» Corsi said.

So, instead of relying on this method, Melis» team used radio measurements to perform the work, which opened up a more reliable distance beacon: quasars, amazingly bright galactic cores powered by supermassive black holes.