Sentences with phrase «radio observations from»

They combined observations in the visible and the near infrared from the Hubble Space Telescope with radio observations from the Very Large Array and the Submillimeter Array to explore the effect of the turbulence, stellar radiation, and magnetic field on massive star formation in the galaxy's nuclear ring.

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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.

In earlier observations, emission from two or more faint objects often was blurred or blended into what appeared to be a single, stronger source of radio waves.

This plot shows observations of the galaxy from the Owens Valley Radio Observatory in California (black), the Metsähovi Radio Observatory in Finland (blue) and the Submillimeter Array in Hawaii (red).

Additional observations and archival data from other telescopes confirmed the on - again, off - again cycle of X-ray and radio pulsations.

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.

Previous observations had suggested that very - low - frequency (VLF) radio waves (from 5 to 25 kilohertz) transmitted on Earth were helping to clear particles from the inner belt.

The transmission of high quantities of data by radio over large distances serves a high number of important application areas: the next generation of satellite communication requires an ever - increasing data offload from earth observation satellites down to earth.

The observations by the Breakthrough Listen team at UC Berkeley using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia show that the fast radio bursts from this object, called FRB 121102, are nearly 100 percent linearly polarized, an indication that the source of the bursts is embedded in strong magnetic fields like those around a massive black hole.

Radio observations constrain the energy and geometry of relativistic material ejected from a binary neutron star merger.

Its location in the National Radio Quiet Zone and the West Virginia Radio Astronomy Zone protects the incredibly sensitive telescope from unwanted radio interference, enabling it to perform unique observatRadio Quiet Zone and the West Virginia Radio Astronomy Zone protects the incredibly sensitive telescope from unwanted radio interference, enabling it to perform unique observatRadio Astronomy Zone protects the incredibly sensitive telescope from unwanted radio interference, enabling it to perform unique observatradio interference, enabling it to perform unique observations.

Banking that she'd spot a «live» burst, Petroff had an international team poised to make rapid follow - up observations, at wavelengths from radio to X-rays.

This campaign includes observations from spacecraft near or orbiting the Earth, covering X-ray through visible wavelengths and ground - based observatories covering near - infrared through radio wavelengths.

Until now, the SETI project has relied on time borrowed from instruments like the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, and has had little control over the extent and nature of the observations.

The observations have involved dozens of telescopes around the world and in space and at wavelengths from visible light through the infrared to radio.

Observations listening for signs of communication from the star are part of another, ongoing project using radio and optical oObservations listening for signs of communication from the star are part of another, ongoing project using radio and optical observationsobservations.

Science Interests Formation of galaxies and black holes in the early universe and their growth over cosmic time; large surveys with Hubble and other telescopes to discover new populations of distant galaxies and black holes; physical properties of active galactic nuclei using observations from radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet through to X-ray energies.

Kevin then used another technique to better constrain the plane of the disk itself: as you can't quite trust scattered light images to determine where the structures (mass) is hidden, he used longer wavelength observations from the ALMA radio interferometer array to figure out how inclined is the disk.

The International LOFAR Telescope has issued a Call for Proposals with a submission deadline of Wednesday 8 March 2017, 12 UT The International LOFAR Telescope (ILT), a powerful next - generation radio telescope, offering synthesis imaging, beam - formed and time - series observing modes at frequencies below 240 MHz, solicits proposals from the international astronomical community for observations to be -LSB-...]

However, the weak radio emission from molecules often made the observations difficult and took us many days for signal detection using conventional radio telescopes.

Krill density was measured within 100 s of meters from the tagged whale (confirmed by surface observations and radio tracking).

By combining these with observations from Planck, we can now obtain a link to the large - scale structures of giant molecular clouds,» remarks Timea Csengeri from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), Bonn, Germany, who led the work of combining the APEX and Planck data.

In addition to detecting the bright bursts from FRB 121102, the VLA observations also revealed an ongoing, persistent source of weaker radio emission in the same region.

Previously, all astronomy observations have relied on light — which includes X-rays, radio waves, and other types of electromagnetic radiation emanating from objects in space — or on very - high - energy particles called neutrinos and cosmic rays.

Instead, we found this black hole fleeing from the larger galaxy and leaving a trail of debris behind it,» U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory's James Condon — the lead author of a study detailing the observations — said in a statement released Wednesday.

UT1 is determined from measurements of the rotation of the Earth by various means including radio telescope observations of quasars (distant galaxies powered by supermassive black holes).

The International LOFAR Telescope (ILT), a powerful next - generation radio telescope, offering synthesis imaging, beam - formed and time - series observing modes at frequencies below 240 MHz, solicits proposals from the international astronomical community for observations to be made during Cycle - 8, that will last between 15 May 2017 and 14 November 2017.

The 140 - foot telescope was inaugurated in 1965 and retired from routine observations in 2001 to make way for the 100 - meter Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT), the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

HALCA was launched in 1997 and made astronomical observations in conjunction with ground - based radio telescopes from 14 countries.

The scientists» suspicion that a black hole lay in the midst of the gas cloud received a boost when further observations picked up radio waves indicative of a black hole coming from the centre of the cloud, said Tomoharu Oka, an astronomer at Keio University in Tokyo.

On November 10 (Chilean Time), Band 10 receiver manufactured by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan successfully received radio waves from a celestial objet for the first time in a test observation at the ALMA Operations Support Facility (OSF) at 2900 m above sea level.

This unprecedented image of Herbig - Haro object HH 46/47 combines radio observations acquired with the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) with much shorter wavelength visible light observations from ESO's New Technology Telescope (NTT).

«We believed from historical records and certainly knew from recent X-ray observations that this star was there,» Camilo remarked, «but despite many attempts, no one had been able to find any radio pulsations from it because the signals are, it turns out, incredibly weak.»

Another of his recent work, on how to strategically point telescopes to find electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave sources, was adapted for observations by the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico, which successfully observed radio emission from the merger.

The mission of CRAF is to keep the frequency bands used for radio astronomical observations free from interference, to argue the scientific needs of the European research community for continued access to and availability of the radio spectrum for radio astronomy, and to support related science communities in their needs concerning interference - free radio frequency bands for passive use.

Within the first year of GBI observations, the major astronomy report from the National Academy of Sciences recommended the immediate funding and building of a large - scale radio telescope array as a national science facility.

A team of astronomers says that observations with the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope show that a neighboring bloated star has giant convective plumes propelling gas from its surface up into the star's atmosphere.

ALMA was built in the world's best observation site for receiving radio waves from the universe.

Unwanted emissions from such an allocation have the potential to severely disrupt radio astronomical observations in the 15.4 GHz protected band.

In the 1960s, we wanted to build an array of radio telescopes called an interferometer that simulates a larger telescope from the combined observations of strategically - aligned smaller ones.

On May 3, 2007, team of astronomers (including Jean - Luc Margot; Stan Peale; Igor V. Holin; Raymond F. Jurgens; and Martin A. Slade) announced new evidence that Mercury has a partially molten core using new observations of fluctuations in Mercury's spin obtained with radar signals bounced off the planet from Earth (with the 305 - meter Arecibo, the 34 - meter Goldstone, and the 100 - meter Robert C. Byrd Green Bank radio telescopes).

New observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in Chile show that the planet, located about 550 light - years away from Earth in the constellation Chamaeleon, is surrounded by a protoplanet - like disk of gas and dust — which is a distinctive feature of young stars, not planets.

The Green Bank Interference Protection Group is responsible for minimizing radio frequency interference to astronomical observations from equipment and activities at the Observatory, in the West Virginia Radio Astronomy Zone (WVRAZ), and in the National Radio Quiet Zone (Nradio frequency interference to astronomical observations from equipment and activities at the Observatory, in the West Virginia Radio Astronomy Zone (WVRAZ), and in the National Radio Quiet Zone (NRadio Astronomy Zone (WVRAZ), and in the National Radio Quiet Zone (NRadio Quiet Zone (NRQZ).

The Ministries of Ghana and South Africa announce the combination of «first light» science observations which confirm the successful conversion of the Ghana communications antenna from a redundant telecoms instrument into a functioning Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) radio telescope.

Array Operators Array operators pay attention to multiple computer screens that monitor the health of the antennas, answer radio calls from technicians in the field, work with observers and scientists whose tests or observations are running, and field questions from tour groups that may be passing through.

Nodland and Ralston said that their analysis of previous radio observations of 160 galaxies, made in the 1970s and 1980s, showed that radiation coming from objects had its direction of polarization rotated by different amounts, depending on the direction of the galaxies.

Astronomer Vera Cooper Rubin found over decades of radio observations that the rotational velocity of clouds of ionized hydrogen (HII regions) in spiral galaxies like the Milky Way was not decreasing at increasing distance from their galactic cores, like the velocity of the planets around the Sun.