Sentences with phrase «sky survey focused»

TESS is expected to perform an all - sky survey focused on finding transiting rocky planets around nearby stars, planets that could then be studied in further detail by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which would launch no sooner than 2018.

Not exact matches

The satellite will focus on each section of the Earth's sky for about a month at a time until it has surveyed both the Southern and Northern hemispheres.

TESS will focus on each section of the Earth's sky for about a month at a time until it has surveyed both the Southern and Northern Hemispheres.

Instruments like the 8.4 - meter Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, slated to begin operation in 2014, will use massive computer power to carry out continuous scans of sky for near - Earth objects, leaving ever fewer patches for amateurs to focus on.

Survey telescopes look at much larger areas of the sky — up to half the sky, at any point — than does the Hubble Space Telescope, for instance, which focuses more on individual objects.

Also, Planck was surveying the entire sky while BICEP's telescope was focused on a small region.

Marla Geha of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, British Columbia, and Joshua Simon of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena focused on eight candidate objects that had already been located by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which uses a 2.5 - meter telescope at Apache Point, New Mexico, to survey a quarter of the sSky Survey, which uses a 2.5 - meter telescope at Apache Point, New Mexico, to survey a quarter of thSurvey, which uses a 2.5 - meter telescope at Apache Point, New Mexico, to survey a quarter of thsurvey a quarter of the skysky.

My focus is the observational study of gravitationally lensed quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey with adaptive optics.

The current and next - generation space - based transit surveys, K2 and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), are focused on finding large planets on short orbits (less than 75 days) around the brightest stars in the sky.

To locate the filaments, both teams focused on pairs of galaxies from a catalog known as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Recently, however, a large number of pulsar surveys are turning their eyes toward the sky, with a focus on finding more double neutron stars — and at least one of them has had success.

We describe current activities and progress that are focused on making high quality all - sky survey images of the diffuse far - infrared emission.

The group is also working with Paul Horowitz, a physicist and electrical engineer at Harvard, to develop «all sky all the time optical SETI survey systems» where the ATA would perform wide surveys of the sky while other, more sensitive telescopes — like the Lick — would follow up with more focused surveys covering a smaller portion of sky.