Sentences with phrase «radio telescope operating»

Dr Rita Colwell, director of the U.S. National Science Foundation, and Dr Catherine Cesarsky, director general of the European Southern Observatory, today signed a historic agreement jointly to construct and operate ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array, the world's largest and most powerful radio telescope operating at millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelengths.

The radio telescopes operated continuously at a wavelength of 10.7 centimetres, which is an ideal wavelength for monitoring solar activity due to the Sun's particular chemical composition.

Mizuno: In a conventional method, railroad tracks and wagons were used for antenna transportation in radio interferometers with multiple antennas like ALMA, such as the Nobeyama Millimeter Array (NMA * Ended its scientific operations), and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA * One of the large radio telescopes operated by the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory) in New Mexico.

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Astronomers had been working throughout the 1970s on new radio telescopes that operated on millimeter - length waves.

The March 2014 finding was released by researchers operating a radio telescope at the South Pole called BICEP2.

One year after a controversial recommendation to cancel its National Science Foundation (NSF) funding, the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, is searching for new partners to help support its $ 10 - million annual operating costs.

On November 16, the National Science Foundation, which funds the bulk of the observatory's operating costs, announced that they would continue funding the radio telescope at a reduced level.

The nonprofit SETI Institute announced on 22 April that grants from the University of California, Berkeley, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and others had run out and that SETI could no longer afford to operate the 42 radio telescopes that make up ATA.

See footage from central New Mexico where the National Radio Astronomy Observatory operates the world's most versatile radio telescope, the Karl G. Jansky Very Large ARadio Astronomy Observatory operates the world's most versatile radio telescope, the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Aradio telescope, the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array.

Observing proposals are invited for the EVN, a VLBI network of radio telescopes spread throughout Europe and beyond, operated by an international consortium of institutes (http://www.evlbi.org/).

Representatives from Europe, Japan, and North America met in Tokyo today and signed a Resolution affirming their mutual intent to construct and operate a giant radio telescope in co-operation with the Republic of Chile, where the telescope will be located.

It was detected by the RATAN - 600 radio telescope in Russia that is operated by the Russian Academy of Science.

At that time, some of the nation's leading scientists and engineers set out to design, build, and operate an «exceptional radio telescope for the nation's astronomical community.»

«If that is the case, this is the first detection of an intermediate mass black hole,» the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, which operates the Nobeyama radio telescope that was used to make the detection, said, in the statement.

A much larger search was made by the Breakthrough Foundation, which uses the Australian radio telescope («The Dish») operated by CSIRO at Parkes, New South Wales, and the Green Bank telescope in West Virginia, in the United States.

«Interestingly, about half the catalogued sources still remain unidentified, an aspect which will inspire astronomers to search for answers using different kinds of telescopes, operating in the radio to the X-ray bands,» says Associate Professor Rowell.

The scientists also want to make use of the two major European millimeter radio observatories (NOEMA and the IRAM 30m telescope) operated by IRAM, a joint German / French / Spanish radio astronomy institute.

In 1995, the observatory became the headquarters for the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, which operates several telescopes (optical and radio) in Canada and shares many others with various countries elsewhere in the world, including the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope and the Gemini telescopes.

Our telescopes in Green Bank were the first to participate in Space VLBI decades ago, when we worked with the HALCA radio telescope launched and operated by Japan in the 1990s.

It consisted of two parabolic radio telescopes measuring 8.5 metres across that would operate together to simulate a larger radio telescope with a 600 - metre diameter.

A new radio telescope array operating at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory in California has the ability to image the entire sky simultaneously at radio wavelengths with unmatched speed, helping astronomers to search for objects and phenomena that pulse, flicker, flare, or expradio telescope array operating at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory in California has the ability to image the entire sky simultaneously at radio wavelengths with unmatched speed, helping astronomers to search for objects and phenomena that pulse, flicker, flare, or expRadio Observatory in California has the ability to image the entire sky simultaneously at radio wavelengths with unmatched speed, helping astronomers to search for objects and phenomena that pulse, flicker, flare, or expradio wavelengths with unmatched speed, helping astronomers to search for objects and phenomena that pulse, flicker, flare, or explode.

Headquartered in Grenoble, IRAM is an international research institute for radio astronomy that operates two (sub) mm telescopes: the NOEMA interferometer array on Plateau de Bure (France) and the single - dish 30M telescope on Pico Veleta (Spain).

The GDA review panel explains, «ALMA achieved an unprecedented level of observing capability as a single radio telescope, which is developed and operated in collaboration of 20 nations and regions.

In addition to the HALCA spacecraft, built, launched, and operated by Japan's ISAS, the participation of a large number of ground - based radio telescopes is also essential.

Reaching these three objectives confirm that the instrument can operate as a single dish radio telescope and also as part of global VLBI network observations, such as the European VLBI network.

The AVN programme is aimed at transferring skills and knowledge in African partner countries to build, maintain, operate and use radio telescopes.

They can be viewed with telescopes operating across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio through visible light to gamma rays, and comprise five principal zones: the temperature minimum, the chromosphere, the transition region, the corona, and the heliosphere.

Right on schedule, a handful of X-rays were detected by NASA's orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory nine days after the merger; 16 days post-merger, Caltech assistant professor of astronomy Gregg Hallinan and his colleagues picked up the first radio photons with the Very Large Array, a collection of 27 radio telescopes in New Mexico operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observaradio photons with the Very Large Array, a collection of 27 radio telescopes in New Mexico operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observaradio telescopes in New Mexico operated by the National Radio Astronomy ObservaRadio Astronomy Observatory.

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Inside, it gets automatic dual - zone climate control, cruise control, a rearview camera, an eight - way power driver seat with power lumbar adjustment, driver seat memory functions, heated front seats, leather upholstery, a heated and power - operated tilt - and - telescoping steering wheel and an auto - dimming mirror.Standard electronic features include a navigation system (with real - time traffic updates), Bluetooth phone and audio connectivity, and a seven - speaker Bose sound system (with an iPod interface, an auxiliary audio jack, 9.3 GB of digital music storage, a CD player and satellite radio).

Operated Operated and maintained telescope systems, high powered laser, and instrumentation for solar physics (Mees Observatory) and satellite ranging programs (LURE Observatory) * Maintained and modified electronic and mechanical systems * Assisted scientific staff with research and telescope operations and maintained LORAN - C navigation systems and HF radio equipment.