Sentences with word «spectrometer»

From developing the first accelerator mass spectrometer for use in the biology field to tracking radionuclides from the Dai - ichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster, the Laboratory's Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (CAMS) has spent 25 years in the spotlight of not only dating ancient artifacts...

De Pater discovered a third and even brighter eruption — one of the brightest ever seen on Io — on Aug. 29 at the start of a year - long series of Io observations led by de Kleer, using both the Near - Infrared Imager with adaptive optics on the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, and the SpeX near - infrared spectrometer on NASA's nearby Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF).

Abstract: Using the Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer Imaging array (ACIS - I), we have carried out a deep hard X-ray observation of the Galactic plane region at (l, b) ~ (28.5, 0.0), where no discrete X-ray source had been reported previously.

The Hiden RGA series of quadrupole mass spectrometers for in - vacuum process analysis is further extended to include systems for...

The near - infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Galileo spacecraft found evidence of the presence of molecules made of oxygen, carbon, sulfur, hydrogen, and nitrogen on Europa, and a hint of the presence of a class of complex organic compounds called tholins which may be driven by pre-biotic processes (more).

However, if the measurements of the ancient ratios from SAM don't match up, this suggests that we may have to look at other ways the atmosphere could have been lost, such as giant impacts from asteroids,» says Mahaffy, who is Principal Investigator for SAM and Instrument Lead for the Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer instrument on MAVEN.

JS: Because we have actually flown through the plume, the mass spectrometer on board of Cassini got a direct composition measurement and found some carbon dioxide in the plume and traces of nitrogen and methane.

Using high - resolution mass spectrometers at EMSL, the scientists analyzed the samples of particles.

An array of spectrometers used to measure what's happening with the plasma came from Photon Control, a nearby company managers had spotted while driving past.

OCO - 2's scientific instrument uses spectrometers, which split sunlight into a spectrum of component colors, or wavelengths.

The new study identified the sources with spectrometers aboard aircraft that flew 3,000 to 10,000 feet above the ground over about 1,200 square miles in the Four Corners in April 2015.

Dawn has also found evidence for clay minerals, or phyllosilicates, on Ceres, using the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer instrument (VIR).

The infrared auroras show up in green in this false - color composite from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, stitched together from 65 individual observations taken by the probe's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer in 2008.

The discovery was only possible thanks to the relatively new Multi-Object Spectrometer For Infra - Red Exploration (MOSFIRE) instrument on the Keck I telescope, which allows astronomers to efficiently study several galaxies at the same time.

CCD camera on Raman Laser Spectrometer (Raman LIBS) which can detect the presence of chemical compounds including minerals and also specific types of «biomarker» chemicals indicative of past or present life

In addition to providing important information on its own, NGIMS would complement other instruments aboard, specifically the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrometer, which would also measure gas composition.

PPPL physicist Novimir Pablant and Andreas Langenberg, of the Max Planck Institute, in front of the housing for components of the X-Ray crystal spectrometer built by Pablant and PPPL engineer Michael Mardenfeld.

The Solar Wind Around Pluto (SWAP) and Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI) instruments aboard New Horizons will analyze the solar winds near the Pluto system.

The research team — including Anibal Ramirez - Cuesta, Luke Daemen, and Yongqiang Cheng of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as Timothy Jenkins and Craig Brown of the National Institute of Standards and Technology — used spectroscopic tools, including the state - of - the - art inelastic neutron spectrometer called VISION at the Spallation Neutron Source, to examine the atomic - level dynamics of a special kind of molecular structure called a clathrate.

The team obtained spectra of the halo stars using Keck Observatory's High - Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES).

The new finding is based on data from the gamma ray spectrometer on Mars Odyssey, which can measure concentrations of various chemical elements as far as about 30 centimetres below the Martian surface.

With the Fourier Transform Spectrometer of the AKARI / Far - Infrared Surveyor, we performed the far - infrared (60 - 140 cm ^ -1) spectral mapping of an area of about 10» x 10» which includes the two clusters to obtain a low - resolution (R = 1.2 cm ^ -1) spectrum at every spatial bin of 30» x 30».

Using a unique, high - fidelity imaging spectrometer onboard the Carnegie Airborne Observatory, Asner and his team made the first - ever forest canopy maps of leaf nitrogen, phosphorus, and mass over a large portion of the biosphere covering nearly 200 million acres of Peru.

Ultra-High-Sensitivity Aerosol Spectrometer Instrument Handbook.

The instrument employs mass spectrometers from Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, California).

Some of the key discoveries we made with the electron spectrometer include large amounts of hydrocarbons and nitriles (a form of organic compound) in Titan's atmosphere.

Hydrogen - sulfide ice can form clouds, but the solid crystals are hard for chemical - analyzing instruments called spectrometers to study.

The X-ray fluorescence spectrometers measured elemental composition of the Martian soil.

On the other hand, theory shows that sulfuric acid / water aerosols are not stable by themselves requiring amines to stabilize and measurements with an atmospheric pressure inlet time of flight mass spectrometer showed that the intermediate aerosols did incorporate amines.

Schneising et al. studied measurements of atmospheric methane concentrations collected by the satellite - borne Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chartography (SCIAMACHY) to look for anomalies in the spatial distribution of this potent greenhouse gas.

The experiments, carried out using a Velocity Map Imaging spectrometer built at the OU, were funded by through a visiting Fellowship of Professor Krishnakumar.

In November 2017, the ALMA Board approved the development of a new spectrometer for the Morita Array designed and developed by Japan for the ALMA telescope.

Among others, results form the High - Energy Antimatter Telescope, a balloon cosmic ray experiment, as well as those from 100 hours worth of data from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer aboard NASA's Space Shuttle, support the matter dominance in our Universe.

In 2008, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer detected carbon dioxide on an exoplanet for the first time.

But by staring at the region close to the black hole for more than 20 hours of total exposure time with the SINFONI instrument on the VLT — the deepest exposure of this region ever with an integral field spectrometer [3]-- the team was able to measure the velocities of different parts of the cloud as it streaks past the central black hole [4].

Itkis said nanotube films also hold great promise in building lighter and more compact analytical instruments such as spectrometers, which are used to analyze the properties of light.

Analysis of these samples by the spacecraft's Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer designed and developed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, detected eight different types of metal ions, including sodium, magnesium and iron.

In another study, the craft used its Fast Imaging Plasma Spectrometer to identify energetic charged atoms and molecules (plasma) caught in Mercury's magnetic field.

Those include the Cassini mission to explore Saturn, the Gamma - Ray Spectrometer onboard NASA's Mars Odyssey Orbiter, the HiRISE camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and the Phoenix Mars Lander.

She collaborates on research projects where nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers provide insight into the questions posed by the research.

Site survey tools included a panoramic camera, as well as a mini-thermal emission spectrometer that was supposed to search for signs of heat.

Then follow the on - bead digestion protocol (see below) and submit the digest to your core facility for effective mass spectrometer analysis of (co --RRB- precipitated proteins.