Sentences with phrase «radio wave sources»

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If the signals come from a star, the source broadcasting the radio waves is very likely the first neutron star ever detected.

Alas, using radio waves to tap hydrogen and oxygen as a combustible source of energy is inefficient, and scientists have so far been unable to adapt the process for energy production.

MeerLICHT, a 65 - centimeter optical telescope, is expected to help identify the sources of fast radio bursts (FRBs)-- extremely brief, energetic flashes of radio waves from remote galaxies.

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.

Power will be supplied by an external source that beams radio waves through the skin and skull.

Nearly 2 weeks later, the source began to emit x-rays and radio waves.

Pinpointing the sources of gravitational waves will allow astronomers to point other telescopes their way, boosting the chances of learning more about them via x-rays, gamma - rays, radio waves, neutrinos and more.

Still, detecting the faint dip was a challenge: Other cosmic sources, such as the Milky Way, emit radio waves at much higher levels, which must be accounted for.

They detected the absorption of radio waves by gas clouds in front of bright radio sources.

Last week researchers reported they had traced a cosmic blast of radio waves back to its source for the first time — but now another team of fast - acting astronomers has called the result into question.

Scientists have identified the source of mysterious flashes of cosmic radio waves known as fast radio bursts (FRBs): a surprisingly small galaxy more than 3 billion light - years away.

Those observations, published today in Nature, reveal that the location of the bursts coincides with a faint, remote galaxy that also hosts a faint, persistent source of radio waves.

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.

A chatty source of radio waves from deep space has a little more to say.

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.

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.

Dark matter hitting black holes could be the source of some fast radio bursts — mysterious blasts of radio waves that come from billions of light years away, first detected 10 years ago.

Radio waves from cosmic sources are much fainter than noisier radio waves closer to Radio waves from cosmic sources are much fainter than noisier radio waves closer to radio waves closer to home.

New detections of radio waves from a repeating fast radio burst have revealed an astonishingly potent magnetic field in the source's environment, indicating that it is situated near a massive black hole or within a nebula of unprecedented power.

«A repeating fast radio burst from an extreme environment: Extragalactic source of radio - wave flashes resides in a powerfully magnetized astrophysical region.»

The record - sharp observations reveal a compact and surprisingly slowly moving source of radio waves, with details published in a paper in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

We know that for energies of modest to intermediate energy, the culprit or the source of the acceleration appears to be the shock front that surrounds a [an] expanding supernova blast wave; that is to say, we have a star that undergoes a massive cosmic explosion [and] drives a strong shock wave out into the surrounding interstellar medium, and the gas around the shock wave, and all the magnetic fields associated with it are capable of accelerating particles to very high energies; and also incidentally magnifying and amplifying the magnetic field associated with that shock front and giving a lot of x-ray emission and radio emission and so on, and so we've understood that.

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.

The centre of our Galaxy, 27 000 light years away in the constellation of Sagittarius, is marked by a peculiar source of radio waves named Sagittarius A * (pronounced «ay star»).

Researchers at Tohoku University have found a way to make covered or hidden PC steel wires visible, by developing a new terahertz wave light source featuring both light and radio - wave characteristics.

The same happens to radio waves as they are compressed and expanded by a moving source.

Scientists have identified the source of mysterious flashes of cosmic radio waves known as fast radio bursts: a surprisingly small galaxy more than 3 billion light - years away.

The supernova remnants are embedded inside a huge, diffuse cloud of charged particles, or plasma, which absorbs radio waves from these sources.

Those observations reveal that the location of the bursts coincides with a faint, remote galaxy that also hosts a persistent source of radio waves.

Although it is close to the line of sight to the globular cluster M15, most astronomers had thought that this source of bright radio waves was probably a distant galaxy.

When aimed at a source (for Drake, it was Jupiter), the radio waves hit one side, bounced 90 degrees to the other side, and then bounced 90 degrees to come right back out to a receiver.

Astronomers need to know how much of their astronomical data has been contaminated by radio waves given off by air molecules, the telescope's own electronics, and other sources of interference.

Astronomers have combined data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to conclude that a peculiar source of radio waves thought to be a distant galaxy is actually a nearby binary star system containing a low - mass star and a black hole.

The insets show the source is bright in radio waves, but can only be giving off a very small amount of X-rays.

A deep image from Chandra reveals it can only be giving off a very small amount of X-rays, while recent VLA data indicates the source remains bright in radio waves.

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.

After several years of work, he identified one source as radio waves coming from thunderstorms near and far... and another, from something at the center of the Milky Way.

Alvaro has contributed the design of the receiver optics components, which guide the radio signals from the antenna to the receiver (e.g. a plastic lens to re-focus the radiation from astronomical sources and the horn to collect these radio waves).

Most notably, in mid-February of 1974, the GBI discovered an intense and point - like source of radio waves coming from the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy.

The source, located 7.3 billion light years away from us, is a quasar, emitting very strong radio waves.

But they still took great pains to rule out alternative explanations, scrutinizing a variety of detector data and the output of numerous on - site instruments that measure seismic activity, radio interference and many other possible sources of «noise» that could conceivably mimic a gravitational - wave signal, team members said.

The uncertainty is mainly due to free electrons in the spiral arms of the Milky Way (present between us and the Galactic center) which are scattering radio waves from Sgr A * and strongly distorting the intrinsic geometry of the source.

The optical signal, for example, may carry slightly different information about the source than the radio waves do.

The first wave of apps will include Pandora, an online music source, plus Stitcher, an app that lets users create customized radio stations to play their favorite podcasts.

In the past year you may have noticed an increase wave of title loan companies become extremely marketed online, on tv, radio and many other sources.

The chip has no power source - it's activated by a short radio wave that can be read by a scanner.