Sentences with phrase «teams of astronomers who»

Mays was recently awarded a Fulbright Grant to travel to Santiago, Chile and work with international teams of astronomers who study Chile's northern deserts in 2010.

He leads a team of astronomers who have been using the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) to look for failed supernovae in other galaxies.

The team of astronomers who discovered it — led by Robert Quimby of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena — tentatively have labeled the 4.7 billion light - years away ex-star a Type II - L supernova because of its brightness and because its light spectrum shows a primarily hydrogen content.

The SLUGGS survey is comprised of an international team of astronomers who aim to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies and their globular cluster systems.

Not exact matches

This intriguing fingerprint quickly triggered additional observations by teams of astronomers worldwide who obtained observing time with additional space observatories including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).

In fact, Swift X-ray and optical observations were carried out two days after FRB 131104, thanks to prompt analysis by radio astronomers (who were not aware of the gamma - ray counterpart) and a nimble response from the Swift mission operations team, headquartered at Penn State.

Further studies of SN 2009ip and its aftermath will help tease out the physics of these exotic supernovae, says Armin Rest, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland, who was not part of the study team.

The key observation from the new research is that the small dip in the HAT - P - 7 b light curve when the planet passes behind its star «is roughly equivalent to the signal of an Earth - size planet when it passes in front of its parent star,» says Paul Kalas, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, who is not part of the Kepler team.

The team has also found evidence to silence a minority of sceptics who argue that what most astronomers take to be microlensing events are actually caused by natural variations in the intrinsic brightness of the stars being observed.

But as Johnson explained here today at the 219th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, that all changed thanks to British amateur astronomer Kevin Apps, who is working closely with the Kepler science team.

«We saw what looked like a new star,» says astronomer Edo Berger of Harvard University, who led a team that spotted the light with the DECam on the Blanco telescope in Chile.

Among other things, the new map will help astronomers to understand and explain the motion of the Milky Way, which is apparently being tugged by the gravity of neighboring groups and clusters of galaxies, says 2MASS team member Karen Masters of the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, who presented the it here at the summer meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

Lawrence Rudnick, the astronomer who led the team that found the void, was studying data from the Very Large Array, a network of 27 radio antennas in New Mexico, when he spotted a gap in the constellation Eridanus where radio signals from galaxies appear unusually faint.

Previous predictions are «exactly what was observed» by the research team, says astronomer Greg Laughlin of the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not affiliated with the study.

Hendrik Hildebrandt from the Argelander - Institut für Astronomie in Bonn, Germany and Massimo Viola from the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands led a team of astronomers [1] from institutions around the world who processed images from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), which was made with ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST) in Chile.

«Last Sunday, after seven years in space traveling nearly three billion miles, Stardust landed in the Great Salt Lake Desert with a treasure from when the solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago,» says astronomer Donald Brownlee of the University of Washington, who led the Stardust team.

Gathering all this mass in under 690 million years is an enormous challenge for theories of supermassive black hole growth, explains Eduardo Bañados, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution for Science who led the international team of scientists.

«It certainly is a very exciting discovery,» says Howard Bond, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., who was not part of the discovery team.

It is exciting,» says Alain Léger, an astronomer at the University of Paris - South at Orsay who is familiar with the French team's work.

«Finally, we now have separate images where you can see, actually see, the planet,» says astronomer Mark Marley of the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., who did not participate in the research but wrote an article for Science summarizing and analyzing the teams» results.

The discovery was announced on May 17, 2016, in a Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) electronic telegram by University of California at Berkeley research astronomer Mike Wong, who led the team that analyzed the Hubble data.

«Many astronomers are surprised at this discovery, because they didn't expect such strong radio emission from this object,» said Shri Kulkarni, a Caltech professor who was on the team that first discovered a brown dwarf in 1995, and advisor to one of the students.

«Thirty - seven of the brightest galaxies were detected, including a quasar, but thousands of galaxies were probably in the string, according to astronomer Dr. Paul Francis who heads the team.

As Brown also surmised in Nature, «If I read this paper out of the blue, my first reaction would be that it was crazy,» says Mike Brown, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who was part of the research team.

The Caltech team reporting on this discovery consists of Zitrin, Ellis, and Belli who lead an international collaboration involving astronomers at Yale and the University of Arizona, and fellow European researchers from Leiden University in the Netherlands and the University of Durham and the Univeristy College London in England.

The result is reported in the Dec. 10 issue of Nature magazine by the team of Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) astronomers who built and operate the telescope and its unique scientific camera, named RINGO.

The ice mountains rise up from a region of the heart - shaped feature, which Stern and his team have informally nicknamed Tombaugh Regio in honor of the late astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930.

«With this one amazing picture, we can explore the earliest days of black holes in the Universe and see how they change over billions of years,» Niel Brandt of Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania, who led a team of astronomers studying the deep image, said in a statement.