Sentences with phrase «radio waves at»

Her efforts seemed to fade like radio waves at the Macon County line.

The message was broadcast into space via frequency modulated radio waves at a ceremony to mark the remodeling of the Arecibo radio telescope on 16 November 1974.

Some of this follow - up research will most likely «point a massive radio dish at the unusual star, to see if it emits radio waves at frequencies associated with technological activity.»

In the 1950s, Reber sought a field that seemed neglected by most other researchers and turned his attention to cosmic radio waves at very low frequencies (1 - 2 MHz, or wavelength 150 - 300 meters).

Because the molecules emit radio waves at specific frequencies, shifts in those frequencies caused by motions (called Doppler Shift) can be measured, revealing the direction in which the gas is moving relative to Earth.

A collision between the jet of subatomic particles and the gas cloud caused flickering of radio waves at a particular location in the jet during a 16 - month series of VLBA observations.

For example, SLF radio waves at 60 Hz may be received and studied by astronomers, or may be ducted along wires as electric power.

Thankfully, the Green Bank Telescope has over two acres of collecting area, meaning it can capture lots and lots of radio waves at once.

«Because the radio telescopes are placed far apart at sites all round the world, they detect the radio waves at different times,» explains Dr. Mikko Kotiranta, a researcher at Fraunhofer IAF.

Its three very high - frequency band radar sites in Texas, Arizona and Alabama ping the heavens with radio waves at wavelengths between 1 and 10 metres and their reflections enable us to detect objects down to the size of a basketball.

To read the data, the device subjects the cylinder to a less intense burst of radio waves at the same frequency.

Radio waves at different polarizations bounce off different parts of the forest canopy and soil.

Astronomers often search for gas by observing neutral hydrogen, which broadcasts radio waves at a wavelength of 21 centimetres.

Just as the quartz crystal in a Swiss watch keeps time by vibrating at a steady frequency (about 32,000 cycles per second), the maser coaxes a supply of specially selected hydrogen atoms to emit radio waves at an unwavering 1.42 billion cycles per second.

Molecules in the intervening gas clouds absorb radio waves at specific frequencies determined by the type of molecules.

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.

In the process, they would produce radio waves at a frequency that depends on the axion's mass, which is unknown.

* 4: Millimeter wave is the radio wave at the wavelength of 1 millimeter to 1 centimeter, while submillimeter wave at the wavelength of 0.1 to 1 millimeter.

Not exact matches

A few days later, at the height of the heat wave, I was cooling off after work with radio chums Ward Todd, Bill Skilling and Joe Schuler at the Hoffman House.

Radio waves that originated at a later time in cosmic history, on the other hand, might be stretched only, say, fivefold, arriving here as 105 - centimeter signals.

At the center of the controversy are two blobs about 450 light - years apart that emit radio waves — light at the low - frequency end of the electromagnetic spectruAt the center of the controversy are two blobs about 450 light - years apart that emit radio waves — light at the low - frequency end of the electromagnetic spectruat the low - frequency end of the electromagnetic spectrum.

The bubbles can be fashioned by applying radio waves of the right frequency to a BEC, Lundblad explains, and at first, researchers hope to simply jiggle the bubbles and see how they react.

Katelin Schutz, a theorist at the University of California, Berkeley, says that clarity could come even faster from stellar beacons called millisecond pulsars, which emit exquisitely regular pulses of radio waves.

He obtained an RF generator and, at a visitor's suggestion, tried to use the energy in the radio waves to desalinate water.

The team also analyzed the radio waves in a new way, revealing that what looked like individual bursts were actually composed of many smaller sub-bursts, says astronomer Andrew Seymour of the Universities Space Research Association at Arecibo.

The electrons or radio waves that are sent directly from your own computer usually don't get far — a few hundred feet at most — before being digested by another computer.

Radio wave emissions continued to brighten for at least 93 days, and are still visible now, the team found.

At first, unexpected patterns of radio waves seen by ANITA were dismissed as noise.

The choice to look at insulin production was driven by the equipment they used to generate the radio waves and magnetic fields.

At a high enough electron density, each cloud reflects high - frequency radio waves like a mirror.

Meanwhile, astronomers at the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico were detecting the burst's radio - wave aftermath, another first.

Dayton Jones and Thomas Kuiper, radio astronomers at JPL, have sketched a plan for deploying a rover to build a VLF radio telescope - essentially a huge network of wires acting as radio - wave receivers - in a crater on the lunar farside, where the moon's bulk blots out Earth's radio noise.

To calibrate its systems, ALMA looks at objects emitting strong radio waves (radio «bright» objects).

Radar uses radio waves to enable aircraft, ships and ground stations to see far into their surroundings even at night and in bad weather.

At its center is a super-dense neutron star, rotating once every 33 milliseconds, shooting out rotating lighthouse - like beams of radio waves and light — a pulsar (the bright dot at image centerAt its center is a super-dense neutron star, rotating once every 33 milliseconds, shooting out rotating lighthouse - like beams of radio waves and light — a pulsar (the bright dot at image centerat image center).

Last year astronomers used the telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, to send a beam of radio waves to Titan.

Just a few days later, on Sept. 5, members of the Electric and Magnetic Field Instrument Suite and Integrated Science (EMFISIS) team made an audio recording of radio waves in the belts, at a frequency audible to humans, known as «chorus.»

At present, metamaterials work best for longer - wavelength radiation such as radio waves and microwaves, which require elements that are on the order of tens of millimeters.

Current detection methods just aren't sensitive enough, but a team at the University of Texas, Arlington, report this week in The Astrophysical Journal a method for detecting moons using radio waves.

One of the Venusian surprises discovered at that time is that radio waves are reflected differently at different elevations on Venus.

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.

An international team of astronomers led by Paulo Freire of the Jodrell Bank Observatory at the University of Manchester, United Kingdom, detected the gas by observing 15 millisecond pulsars — compact, rapidly spinning stars that emit bursts of radio waves with clockwork precision.

In 2015, the nation's first millimeter - wave software radio testbed, WiMi, an NSF - supported project led by Zhang, successfully demonstrated data transmission at 60 gigahertz.

«This year, observers not only detected gravitational waves from a collision of two neutron stars; they also saw the event at all wavelengths of light, from gamma rays all the way to radio.

Of course, outside Germany some world - shattering things were going on as well: in Paris, Braque's and Picasso's cubist paintings and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, which brought on a riot at its premiere; in Bologna, Marconi's experiments with radio waves; at Kitty Hawk, the Wright brothers» first flight.

Gullberg and her colleagues believe that the explanation lies with powerful jets of radio waves that are ejected from a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Spiderweb Galaxy.

Software installed on the user's device — whether a laptop, smartphone, radio or television — translates this information into a countdown for their specific location based on estimates of the speed at which the waves are traveling through Earth's crust.

They produce electromagnetic radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum at all wavelengths from long - wave radio to the shortest wavelength gamma rays.

The scientists announced that a radio telescope located at the South Pole had discovered gravitational waves generated by the Big Bang.

Alexander Zink, researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS based in Erlangen, Germany, would like to provide clarification around a common misunderstanding: «Digital radio works the same way as terrestrial FM radio via air waves, but with better quality, more variety and innovative extra features.