Sentences with phrase «sky survey data»

Additionally, it will provide us the first all - sky survey data with high - spatial resolution beyond 100 um.

Not exact matches

«Sky surveys became respectable not only because they brought in so much data but because the content of the data was so high that it enabled so many people to do science.»

More accurate distances between the most common type of «planetary nebulae» and the Earth can be estimated simply with three sets of data: firstly, the size of the object on the sky taken from the latest high resolution surveys; secondly, an accurate measurement of how bright the object is in the red hydrogen - alpha emission line; and thirdly, an estimate of the dimming toward the nebula caused by so called interstellar - reddening.

At a conference, another astronomer asked him if the center could archive a terabyte of data that had been collected from the MACHO sky survey, a project designed to study mysterious cosmic bodies that emit very little light or other radiation.

Now, a team of astronomers has used position and velocity data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as well as computer simulations of stellar evolution in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC, pictured above), a small satellite galaxy near the Milky Way, to show that these speeding stars may come from there.

Asa and his team used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to group together over half a million galaxies of all different colours, shapes, and masses.

We don't want brain and data drain from Africa to the U.S.» The biggest game - changer on the continent will be the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), the world's largest network of radio telescopes designed to survey the sky faster than any instrument before it.

At the project's website, DiskDetective.org, users make classifications by viewing ten - second videos of data from NASA surveys, including the Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer mission (WISE) and Two - Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) projects.

While combing through data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), Souza Oliveira Kepler et al. identified SDSS J124043.01 +671034.68, a white dwarf with its outer layer of light elements stripped away, revealing a nearly pure layer of oxygen.

The 17 dwarf satellite galaxy candidates were discovered in the first two years of data collected by the Dark Energy Survey, a five - year effort to photograph a portion of the southern sky in unprecedented detail.

Using archival data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and the XMM - Newton and Chandra X-ray telescopes, a team of astronomers have discovered a gigantic black hole, which is probably destroying and devouring a big star in its vicinity.

Now, a team at the University of California Irvine has used observations from NASA's Fermi space telescope, along with data from all - sky surveys, and applied updated calculations to observe our galaxy's centre — where there is thought to be a cluster of dark matter.

And when they examined data from all - sky surveys of starlight, they saw exactly the expected signal at the galactic centre.

For instance, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, opening in 2022, will collect 30 terabytes of data nightly as it observes the whole sky every few days from the vantage of the Southern Hemisphere.

Astrophysicist Paul Westoby and colleagues from Liverpool John Moores University in the U.K. used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to survey spectral lines from 360,000 relatively nearby galSurvey to survey spectral lines from 360,000 relatively nearby galsurvey spectral lines from 360,000 relatively nearby galaxies.

Now there's definitive proof in data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a large international project to map one - quarter of the sky in exquisite detaSky Survey, a large international project to map one - quarter of the sky in exquisite detasky in exquisite detail.

Bioblitzes have taken a remote - controlled submersible under Oakland's Lake Merritt, and in the future may take to the skies via drones, through a U.S. Geological Survey collaboration, to collect environmental data, such as the paths of migrating animals.

Roger Clowes of the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, UK, and colleagues discovered the structure using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the most comprehensive 3D map of the universe.

A team studying data from a recent sky survey has spotted a huge burst of radio waves that came and went in the blink of an eye and has not returned since.

The researchers are among the first to combine data from two satellites that ended their operations last year: the Planck satellite, which scanned the whole sky, and the Herschel satellite, which surveyed certain sections in greater detail.

Todd Boroson and Tod Lauer at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson found what they think is a dual black hole while examining more than 17,000 quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which obtained data, images, and spectra of more than one - fourth of the sSky Survey, which obtained data, images, and spectra of more than one - fourth of the skysky.

In field after field, the ability to collect data has exploded — in biology, with its burgeoning databases of genomes and proteins; in astronomy, with the petabytes flowing from sky surveys; in social science, tapping millions of posts and tweets that ricochet around the internet.

The magenta X-ray data come from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescopic Array, and are overlaid on a visible image from the Digitized Sky Survey.

The ability to sift through large amounts of data and perform complex analyses very quickly and in a fully automated fashion could transform astrophysics in a way that is much needed for future sky surveys that will look deeper into the universe — and produce more data — than ever before.

The lensing galaxy has a spectroscopic redshift of z = 0.79 (which means it's 7.0 billion light - years away, Note 1) based on data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

The KiDS analysis of data from the VST is an important step but future telescopes are expected to take even wider and deeper surveys of the sky.

Wu leads a team that has developed a method to effectively select quasars in the distant universe based on optical and near - infrared photometric data, in particular using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and NASA's Wide - Field Infrared Explorer, or WISE, satellite.

So these researchers had to infer its movement by using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), an ongoing project to create a 3 - D map of the universe.

So Francis and independent astronomer Erik Anderson of Ashland, Oregon, developed a simulation based on the velocity distribution of stars that they found in the sky - survey data.

So he compiled data on more than 20,000 stars from existing sky surveys whose position in our galaxy and orbital velocity had been accurately measured.

This is the Sculptor dwarf galaxy composed from data from the Digitized Sky Survey 2, courtesy of ESO / Digitized Sky Survey 2.

The scientists also used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the W.M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and the MMT Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Arizona.

SDSSJ1506 +54 jumped out at the researchers when they looked at it using data from WISE's all - sky infrared survey.

Rogerson and his team used data from a large survey of the sky known as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to identify new outflows from qusurvey of the sky known as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to identify new outflows from quasasky known as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to identify new outflows from quasaSky Survey to identify new outflows from quSurvey to identify new outflows from quasars.

That survey will image the entire visible sky every few nights, gathering data on billions of stars and how some of those stars change in brightness over time.

Using archival data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and the XMM - Newton and Chandra X-ray telescopes, a team of astronomers have discovered a gigantic black hole, which is probably destroying and devouring a massive star in its vicinity.

Fu has participated in the Carnegie Summer Undergraduate Research program over the past two summers, working with staff astronomer Josh Simon studying dwarf galaxies and streams of stars surrounding our Milky Way using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

According to my correspondence with the Space Telescope Science Institute I am allowed to use the POSS - II / UKSTU data to create and display images for non-commercial purposes so long as I include this fine print taken from the DSS site: The Digitized Sky Surveys were produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute under U.S. Government grant NAG W - 2166.

According to my correspondence with the Royal Observatory Edinburgh and the Space Telescope Science Institute, I am allowed to use the POSS - II / UKSTU data to create and display images for non-commercial purposes so long as I include this fine print for the SuperCOSMOS data: Use of these images is courtesy of the UK Schmidt Telescope (copyright in which is owned by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council of the UK and the Anglo - Australian Telescope Board) and the Southern Sky Survey as created by the SuperCOSMOS measuring machine and are reproduced here with permission from the Royal Observatory Edinburgh.

This image was created using the POSS - II / UKSTU data of the Digitized Sky Survey using the process described here.

This publication makes use of data products from the Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer, which is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles; the Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology, which is funded by NASA; the Two Micron All Sky Survey, which is a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center / California Institute of Technology, funded by NASA; and the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) Photometric All - Sky Survey (APASS), whose funding is provided by the Robert Martin Ayers Sciences Fund and the AAVSO Endowment (https://www.aavso.org/aavso-photometric-all-sky-survey-data-release-1).

This color image is based on data coming from 33 photographic plates taken between 1987 and 1995 through the Palomar Observatory's 48 - inch (1,2 - meter) Samuel Oschin Telescope as a part of the second National Geographic Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS II).

Near - IR spectroscopy of... ▽ More We have searched ~ 8200 sq. degs for high proper motion (~ 0.5 - 2.7» / year) T dwarfs by combining first - epoch data from the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) 3 - Pi Survey, the 2MASS All - Sky Point Source Catalog, and the WISE Preliminary Data Reledata from the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) 3 - Pi Survey, the 2MASS All - Sky Point Source Catalog, and the WISE Preliminary Data ReleData Release.

The scientists have released images and data covering half of the sky visible from the VLA, and hope to complete their survey within a year.

The study used data from the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, or BOSS, an Earth - based sky survey that captured light from about 1.5 million galaxies to study the universe's expansion and the patterned distribution of matter in the universe set in motion by the propagation of sound waves, or «baryonic acoustic oscillations,» rippling in the early uniSurvey, or BOSS, an Earth - based sky survey that captured light from about 1.5 million galaxies to study the universe's expansion and the patterned distribution of matter in the universe set in motion by the propagation of sound waves, or «baryonic acoustic oscillations,» rippling in the early unisurvey that captured light from about 1.5 million galaxies to study the universe's expansion and the patterned distribution of matter in the universe set in motion by the propagation of sound waves, or «baryonic acoustic oscillations,» rippling in the early universe.

This infrared image combines data from NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope with shorter - wavelength observations from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), letting us peer into the clouds of dust wrapped around this stellar nursery.

New data from existing experiments, and next - generation sky surveys such as the Berkeley Lab - led Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) now under construction at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona should provide even more detailed data about these filaments, he added.

The international science team, which included researchers from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and UC Berkeley, analyzed data from past sky surveys using sophisticated image - recognition technology to home in on the gravity - based effects that identify the shapes of these filaments.

NED contains data on over 100 million galaxies, combining a number of disparate databases including the catalogues of the Spitzer and WISE missions, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

They combined lensing data from a multi-year sky survey at the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope with information from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey that mapped luminous red galaxies (LRGs), which are massive, distant, and very old galaxisky survey at the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope with information from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey that mapped luminous red galaxies (LRGs), which are massive, distant, and very old galsurvey at the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope with information from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey that mapped luminous red galaxies (LRGs), which are massive, distant, and very old galaxiSky Survey that mapped luminous red galaxies (LRGs), which are massive, distant, and very old galSurvey that mapped luminous red galaxies (LRGs), which are massive, distant, and very old galaxies.