Sentences with phrase «telescopes for observations»

I use both ground based and space telescopes for observations.

Not exact matches

Thompson said this new Kepler data analysis would be the last for this leg of the telescope's first observations.

We will also apply for more observation time on the ALMA telescope to study the planet - forming discs in even higher resolution to get more detailed information about their chemical composition,» says Jes Jørgensen, associate professor in the research group Astrophysics and Planetary Science at the Niels Bohr Institute and Centre for Star and Planet Formation, University of Copenhagen.

As a refractor telescope it allows for observation of both astronomical and earth objects.

Soon after the initial observations of the merger site, the Earth's annual trip around the Sun placed the object too close to the Sun in the sky for X-ray and visible - light telescopes to observe.

But a team led by Marco Ajello of the Kavli Institute in Stanford, California, studied observations by NASA's Fermi telescope and found this accounts for no more than 30 per cent of the glow.

The research teams plan more in - depth observations with space telescopes to strengthen the case for the dark births of black holes.

By 2020, when the European Extremely Large Telescope is due to be completed, the country is expected to host 70 % of the global observation surface for large optical and infrared telescopes.

«My cat Gizmo likes to watch my telescope every time I prepare it for a field observation,» says Michal Lewenstein.

In the past, radio telescope observations of protoplanetary disks have provided some support for gravitational instability.

«For the onboard measurements to be meaningful, we needed to develop a model that predicted the arrival times using ground - based observations provided by our collaborators at radio telescopes around the world,» said Paul Ray, a SEXTANT co-investigator with the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory.

Data from WISE may generate proposals for telescope time on Herschel for more detailed follow - up observations, says Paul Goldsmith, project scientist for Herschel at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. (Goldsmith's JPL colleagues will manage ground operations for WISE; Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, Utah, designed and built its instrumentation, and Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colo., built the spacecraft itself.)

The agency's Balloon Observation Platform for Planetary Science (BOPPS), a sub-orbital balloon - carried telescope, already has provided observations of the comet in the lead - up to the close encounter with Mars.

A lunar telescope could conduct unbroken observations for 14 days at a time.

But in March this year, when conditions were ideal for infrared observations, James Graham of the University of California at Berkeley looked at the object with the 10 - metre Keck telescope in Hawaii.

The telescope which is much stronger than Hubble — its predecessor — will operate in a very cold and dark environment ideal for conducting observations, says Sune Toft:

The programme makes use of telescope time that can not be used for science observations.

Except, that is, for rules hammered out early in the telescope's development, which allow the researchers performing these «Guaranteed Time Observations» to keep their results to themselves for a one - year period.

«Moreover, high - altitude balloons above 95 percent of the Earth's atmosphere allow for observations in the ultraviolet - and infrared - wavelength bands, which aren't possible with ground - based telescopes.

The detectors for the telescope used to make the observations were made by the same group — led by Jamie Bock at the California Institute of Technology — that developed detectors for Planck.

Using a web interface, interested scientists can, for example, select objects from the raw simulation data, process it, and even create virtual observations mimicing existing or future space telescopes.

Malcolm Fridlund, European Space Agency project scientist for the mission, says there are «hundreds of other interesting candidate signals» in the COROT data waiting for painstaking follow - up observations with ground - based telescopes.

Engineering to ready the telescope for full use took up most time on Keck until January; last year it notched up only 15 to 20 nights of scientific observations, says Gillingham.

This is important for other radio, optical, X-ray and gamma - ray telescopes so they can follow up observations of these cosmic events with their own observation.

«Observations with the next generation of radio telescopes will tell us more about what actually happens when a star is eaten by a black hole — and how powerful jets form and evolve right next to black holes,» explains Stefanie Komossa, astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany.

During the harsh winter (despite the telescope's proximity to the equator) there were problems rotating the dome and opening the dome shutter for observations.

«The reason is there's a limit to the details we can see based on the size of the telescope used for the observations.

William Borucki, of the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, has captured the astronomy prize for two achievements: conceiving the observational technique of transit photometry that raised the tantalizing prospect of sighting Earth - like planets orbiting other stars, and leading the 25 - year - long development of the Kepler mission, which in 2009 placed a telescope in space to make those observations.

Before their ALMA observations, the team searched for baby galaxies in SSA22 with ASTE, a 10 - m submillimeter telescope operated by NAOJ.

Researchers from the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), jointly run by Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, shed light on this important era by analyzing 84 sets of X-ray telescope observations from the Japanese - US Suzaku satellite.

Engineers on the ground will point the telescope at a pre-selected active region on the sun and gather observations for some six minutes.

It's much easier for ground telescopes to follow up on observations if the stars are bright, and easy to spot.

By monitoring a small, nearby star for 11 years with one of the 10 - meter Keck telescopes in Hawaii and combining the data with 4.3 years of similar observations published by another team, Vogt and his co-authors found two orbiting planets, with respective masses of at least 3.1 times and seven times the mass of Earth.

Given its inherent transnational nature and the need for telescope observations around the globe, astronomy quickly emerged as a pioneer of large international scientific collaborations.

Hubble's observations for this image were performed in infrared light, which enabled the telescope to peer through the gas and dust cocooning the newly forming stars and capture a clear view of the HH objects.

The number of planets discovered at 500 nm (black curve) that could also be detected at longer wavelengths (colored curves), as desired for spectroscopic observations, as a function of telescope aperture size and for two different assumed inner working angles.

In the majority of cases, the ALMA observations alone could pinpoint the distances, but for a few galaxies the team combined the ALMA data with measurements from other telescopes such as the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) and the ESO Very Large Telescope.

Europa was one of the first things Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei saw in 1610 when he turned his telescope upward to examine the heavens for the first time, during a set of observations that would change the world forever.

The International LOFAR Telescope has issued a Call for Proposals with a submission deadline of Wednesday 8 March 2017, 12 UT The International LOFAR Telescope (ILT), a powerful next - generation radio telescope, offering synthesis imaging, beam - formed and time - series observing modes at frequencies below 240 MHz, solicits proposals from the international astronomical community for observations to be -LSB-...]

However, the weak radio emission from molecules often made the observations difficult and took us many days for signal detection using conventional radio telescopes.

This is crucial as this is all we are going to get for exo - earths: we will not be able to build large enough telescopes to take detailed images of the surfaces of exoplanets — but we will still be able to learn about their atmospheres (and surfaces) from time - resolved observations!

We acknowledge observations by M. Kunitomo, R. Hasegawa, B. Sato, H. Harakawa, T. Hirano and H. Izumiura on the Okayama 188 cm telescope (HIDES observations) and N. Kusakabe, M. Onitsuka and T. Ryu for MuSCAT observations.

Proposals are invited for observations with the APEX telescope in the observing period August / September 2017 — March 2018.

WASHINGTON — The Herschel Observatory, a European space telescope for which NASA helped build instruments and process data, has stopped making observations after running out of liquid coolant as expected.

Dr. Barry Clark, one of the early architects of the VLA who has scheduled that telescope's observations for nearly three decades, received the award in 1991.

It also has a unique offset feed arm, which greatly enhances the performance of the telescope, making it ideal for observations of faint astronomical objects.

Though no longer used for routine scientific observations, the 140 - foot telescope still supports astronomical research through its current mission as one of only two Earth stations for the RadioAstron satellite — the farthest element of an Earth - to - space - spanning radio telescope system.

78 world - leading experts in their area of astronomical research scientifically evaluated the 1,381 proposals received for Cycle 2 Early Science observations with the radio telescope, which represent a demand of more than 7.000 hours of observation.

For these most recent observations, the astronomers used only a portion of ALMA's 66 antennas when the telescope was in its lower - resolution configuration.

The International LOFAR Telescope (ILT), a powerful next - generation radio telescope, offering synthesis imaging, beam - formed and time - series observing modes at frequencies below 240 MHz, solicits proposals from the international astronomical community for observations to be made during Cycle - 8, that will last between 15 May 2017 and 14 November 2017.