Sentences with phrase «telescope at infrared wavelength»

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To make the 3 - D map, Milisavljevic and co-author Rob Fesen of Dartmouth College examined Cas A in near - infrared wavelengths of light using the Mayall 4 - meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, southwest of Tucson, AZ..

According to Mather and other leading astronomers now working on a report to be released this summer by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), that quest and others require an even bigger space telescope that would observe, as Hubble does, at optical, ultraviolet and near - infrared wavelengths.

[1] ESO's VISTA telescope observed in the near - infrared wavelength range 0.88 - 2.15 μm while Spitzer performed observations in the mid-infrared at 3.6 and 4.5 μm.

Early in their lives, the radiation they emitted was largely blocked by the thick veil of their host nebula, visible only to telescopes at infrared and radio wavelengths.

The scientists then mapped the quasars with other telescopes and at wavelengths ranging from ultraviolet to far infrared.

Previously, astronomers have used x-ray telescopes to observe strong winds very near the massive black holes at galactic centers (artist's concept, inset) and infrared wavelengths to detect the vast outflows of cool gas (bluish haze in artist's concept, main image) from such galaxies as a whole, but they've never done so in the same galaxy.

The team used the GROND imager at the 2.2 m ESO / MPG telescope of the European Southern Observatory in Chile to observe the planet simultaneously at seven different wavelength bands spanning the optical and near - infrared.

The observations have involved dozens of telescopes around the world and in space and at wavelengths from visible light through the infrared to radio.

ALMA will consist of 64 12 - meter - diameter dish antennas comprising a single imaging telescope to study the universe at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths — the region between radio waves and infrared waves.

The APEX telescope in Chile has mapped the full area of the Galactic Plane visible from the southern hemisphere for the first time at submillimetre wavelengths — between infrared light and radio waves — and in finer detail than recent space - based surveys.

Figures 1a and 1b show the G35 protostar at wavelengths of 31 and 37 microns taken by the FORCAST instrument on the SOFIA observatory's infrared telescope in 2011.

The telescope will observe the universe at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths, between infrared light and radio waves in the electromagnetic spectrum.

ALMA's observations, at submillimetre wavelengths, are also impervious to the glare from the star that affects infrared or visible - light telescopes.

Both images were taken by Imke de Pater (UC Berkeley), Larry Sromovosky and Pat Fry (U. Wisconsin), and Heidi Hammel (AURA) using the near - infrared camera NIRC2 with adaptive optics on the 10 - m Keck II telescope at a wavelength of 1.6 micron.

The HDST would have comparable clarity at UV / optical wavelengths as the giant ground - based telescopes get in the near infrared and as ALMA gets at millimeter wavelengths.

That altitude is above the primary part of the atmosphere that blocks infrared light, which means the telescope can observe at wavelengths longer than the ones we see in our Disk Detective WISE data, but shorter than the submillimeter wavelengths we've observed at with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope.

Images of Io obtained at different infrared wavelengths (in microns, μm, or millionths of a meter) with the W. M. Keck Observatory's 10 - meter Keck II telescope on Aug. 15, 2013 (a-c) and the Gemini North telescope on Aug. 29, 2013 (d).

Telescopes that capture visible and infrared light typically require mirrors, and developing foldable mirrors for these wavelengths is complex when it is even possible at all.

This was necessary because if the telescope were not cooled down, its own thermal radiation at infrared wavelengths would swamp the much fainter radiation from astronomical objects.

The third panel shows the same part of sky again at even shorter wavelengths, the near - infrared, as seen by ESO's VISTA infrared survey telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.