Sentences with phrase «use infrared wavelengths»

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite senses temperature using infrared wavelengths.

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Created in collaboration with the world famous football star, Under Armour's Athlete Recovery Sleepwear use bioceramic particles that absorb infrared wavelengths emitted by the body and reflect back far infrared energy, helping the body recover faster while promoting better sleep.

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..

Now, for the first time, scientists have observed the collapse — and recovery — of its atmosphere using far - infrared wavelengths.

Images were obtained from viewing the galaxy in near - ultraviolet, visible, and near - infrared wavelengths, using the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard Hubble.

Just as we use various electromagnetic wavelengths such as visible light, infrared and X-rays to study the cosmos, gravitational waves will act as a brand new eye on the universe, potentially giving us greater insight into objects like black holes and neutron stars.

Optic phonons, or crystal vibrations that can be excited with infrared light, can also be used to confine light to dimensions much smaller than the wavelength of light, while maintaining record - high efficiencies.

They used images from the UltraVISTA survey, one of six projects using VISTA to survey the sky at near - infrared wavelengths, and made a census of faint galaxies when the age of the Universe was between just 0.75 and 2.1 billion years old.

The system conceived at TU Eindhoven uses infrared light with wavelengths of 1500 nanometers and higher; this light has frequencies that are thousands of times higher, some 200 terahertz, which makes the data capacity of the light rays much larger.

The present device, which was constructed by Sandia researchers Shawn Lin and Jim Fleming, functions in the infrared range (wavelengths of approximately 10 - micron) and can be used to enhance or better transmit infrared images.

It uses the infrared light of 1480 — 1600 nanometers in wavelength usually encountered in the broadband glass fiber network.

To dig a few centimeters deeper into Mercury's surface, solar physicist Amir Caspi and planetary scientist Constantine Tsang of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and colleagues will use an infrared camera, specially built by Alabama - based Southern Research, that detects wavelengths between 3 and 5 micrometers.

The researchers will use the probe, which will measure radiation at infrared wavelengths, to study the evolution of galaxies.

Stefan Gillessen and Reinhard Genzel of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, and their colleagues used the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile to observe the Milky Way's center at infrared wavelengths, which penetrate the thick dust between it and us.

Dubbed the first planetary meteorological satellite by mission scientists, Akatsuki was supposed to orbit Venus for 2 years, using its five cameras operating at ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths to track clouds at different altitudes and watch for venusian lightning.

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.

«This is not a problem when you use an infrared camera because at those longer wavelengths the cloud will be a million times more transparent.»

And yet, the blades appear to be using optical wavelengths, so the force field must contain infrared radiation, but let visible light through.

TPV operates on the same principle as solar cells in wide use today, but converts photons at infrared wavelengths rather than those in the visible spectrum.

The treated fibers could be used to transmit a wide range of infrared, visible and ultraviolet wavelengths of light, according to the research team.

However, some bacteria can push the boundaries of the energy used to wavelengths well in the near - infrared region.

By weaving some quantum wizardry, Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A * STAR) researchers have achieved something that appears to be a contradiction in terms — using visible light to perform spectroscopy at infrared wavelengths.

Moreover, because of limitations inherent in their design, metamaterials of this type designed for infrared and visible wavelengths have, so far, been shown to impart a negative index of refraction to light that is traveling only in a certain direction, making them hard to use for imaging and other applications that rely on refracted light.

Using data gathered in visible and near - infrared wavelengths by sensors on a NASA / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite, researchers compared the average intensity of nighttime lights across the southern United States in December of 2012 and 2013 with the average measured in non-December months from January 2012 through autumn of this year.

HyperCam, which uses the visible and near - infrared parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, illuminates a scene with 17 different wavelengths and generates an image for each.

Using high - speed cameras to analyze a narrow wavelength band in the near - infrared region, the sensors search for changes in the tops of clouds, which indicate lightning strikes.

By the time it stops working, the JWST should be in orbit, but the newer telescope will operate in different wavelengths from Hubble — using infrared rather than optical and ultraviolet light.

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.

It involves using a reflectance spectroscopy setup to obtain optical reflectance spectra of paper samples in the near - infrared, visible, and near - ultraviolet wavelength ranges.

Because Venus is covered in clouds, normal cameras can not see the surface, but Venus Express used a particular infrared wavelength that can see through them.

However, the wavelength of the beam from the infrared lasers used in CD players and existing laser disc recorders is too long to be focused precisely enough to read such tiny pits.

In this application, a nanotube film with an array of electrodes can be used as an electrically configurable diffraction grating for an infrared spectrometer, allowing the wavelength of light to be scanned without moving parts.

Hubble was used to observe ultraviolet, visible and near - infrared wavelengths, but only with Spitzer have we been able to jump through the cosmic dust and clutter to see distant reaches of the galaxy with such amazing clarity.

«The nulling mode of the interferometer uses starlight across a wide range of wavelengths, including visible light for the adaptive optics to correct the telescope wave - fronts, near - infrared light to stabilize the path - lengths, and mid-infrared light for the nulling science measurements.»

ASTER data is used to create detailed maps of land surface temperature, reflectance, and elevation.ASTER captures high spatial resolution data in 14 bands, from the visible to the thermal infrared wavelengths, and provides stereo viewing capability for digital elevation model creation.

They also coated a porous gold film - which has a plasmonic response at infrared wavelengths - in CTAC and used it as the substrate.

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.

Using three different visual and infrared wavelengths to observe three different atmospheric layers, Venus Express tracked the movement of clouds and determined the speed of the winds moving them.

They used data from the visible and infrared mapping spectrometer, a device that looks at how various wavelengths of light are reflected by the surface, allowing minerals to be identified.

If such observations go forward, the telescope will provide an unparalleled view of Proxima b. JWST is optimized for infrared wavelengths, which can be used to examine a planet's heat emissions.

Using the HIgh Precision Polarimetric Instrument (H... ▽ More Debris discs are typically revealed through excess emission at infrared wavelengths.

The Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) directly observes exoplanets in near - infrared wavelengths by first blocking out the starlight using an advanced type of shield called a coronagraph.

When choosing an infrared sauna system, be mindful of the type of infrared wavelengths they use; near, mid, or far and what you want to use it for: Near doesn't go as deep and can help on the surface level by helping fight against aging and heal wounds.

An infrared sauna uses special light wavelengths that enter your skin.

The infrared wavelengths used in the K - Laser allow for targeting specific areas of your body.

Much like the sun, infrared saunas use an invisible wavelength.

In Wellesley's laser treatment, specific wavelengths of red and near - infrared light are used to create therapeutic effects as they warm and soothe your pet.

Laser therapy is a non-invasive and effective way of using specific wavelengths of light (red and near - infrared) to stimulate therapeutic effects such as more rapid healing time, pain reduction, increased circulation and decreased swelling.

Thanks to modern technology, we are now able to use a specific wavelength of infrared laser light to painlessly and non-invasively treat and relieve many deep tissue injuries and conditions that cause pain for our cats.

Laser Therapy is the use of specific wavelengths of light (red and near - infrared) to stimulate the body's natural ability to heal.