Sentences with phrase «radio wavelengths much»

«We expected the burster to act at radio wavelengths much as it does at X-ray and visible wavelengths — that is, rise in brightness, then slowly become weaker,» said Dr. Dale Frail of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).

Not exact matches

In the hopes of seeing the gas clouds from which the first stars arose, Loeb has devoted much of the past decade to a new field called 21 - centimeter cosmology, a branch of radio astronomy that focuses on identifying electromagnetic radiation that started out with a wavelength of 21 centimeters.

Some, with much longer wavelengths than we can see, would transform the world: radio waves.

Its dishes collect wavelengths about a millimeter or less — much shorter than those detected by traditional radio telescopes.

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).

Hallinan is planning continued radio observations over the next year or two, because this radio emission — which will be around long after all of the other wavelengths have faded — is the most important diagnostic of the energetics and environment of the explosion, and may reveal how much energy was in the explosion, how much mass was ejected, if a jet actually appeared, and if the merger produced conditions that will influence future star formation, among other questions.

In deep space, much material is much colder, and emits at even lower wavelengths, down in the radio bands.