Sentences with phrase «wave observatory called»

And a future gravitational wave observatory called LISA will aim to detect supermassive black holes across cosmic history.

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Situated at a relatively safe distance 30 meters away from the smokers, an acoustic device called COVIS (Cabled Observatory Vent Imaging Sonar) emits sound waves that bounce off of the particles belching from the vents.

In 2014, Australian coastal researchers called for the creation of a national coastline observatory, with basic data — such as sub-aerial profiles, bathymetry and inshore wave forcing measurements — collected routinely from a network of around 20 «representative» beaches across Australia.

And a spacecraft called Lisa Pathfinder launched last December to test technology for a proposed space - based observatory that will be sensitive to longer - wavelength gravitational waves from supermassive black hole collisions.

Light waves from the precise location of a star, collected separately by the twin 10 - meter Keck Observatory telescopes, are combined and canceled out in a process called nulling.

Using the millimeter - wave interferometer at Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory, the astronomers combined 15 smaller images into a single mosaic to produce an image showing the location of Carbon Monoxide (CO) gas throughout a galaxy called IC 10, some 2.5 million light - years away.

These advanced gravitational wave observatories detected a very strange, weak signal emanating from a galaxy called NGC 4993, 130 million light - years away.

NuSTAR, a high - energy X-ray observatory, has created the first map of radioactive material in a supernova remnant called Cassiopeia A, or Cas A, to reveal how shock waves likely tear massive dying stars apart, the researchers said in a study, published in the Feb. 20 issue of Nature.

He began studying whether gravitational waves could provide a useful test of dark energy following the February 2016 announcement that the two sets of gravitational - wave detectors called LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory) captured the first confirmed measurement of gravitational waves.

Around 4 p.m. PDT, the Swope Telescope — the oldest and smallest of a collection of four optical telescopes at Carnegie Observatories» Las Campanas Observatory in Chile — detected a bright optical counterpart to the gamma - ray burst and gravitational - wave signals, in a galaxy called NGC 4993.