Sentences with phrase «wave source by»

Observations of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational - wave source by the TOROS collaboration.

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Waves that emanate from a source moving away from you are stretched by the time they reach you — lowering the pitch of sound waves and shifting the color of light waves toward the longer wavelength, or red, end of the specWaves that emanate from a source moving away from you are stretched by the time they reach you — lowering the pitch of sound waves and shifting the color of light waves toward the longer wavelength, or red, end of the specwaves and shifting the color of light waves toward the longer wavelength, or red, end of the specwaves toward the longer wavelength, or red, end of the spectrum.

By validating model results against geological observations, the study indicates that changes in runoff, sea level and wave energy have profoundly affected the past evolution of the Great Barrier Reef not only in regard to reefs evolution but also sediment fate from source - to - sink.

The occasional merger of neutron stars literally shakes the universe by sending out gravitational waves (illustrated above), but these events may also be the main source of gold and other heavy elements in the Milky Way, a new study suggests.

The NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed for the first time the source of a gravitational wave, created by the merger of two neutron stars.

BlackGEM is going to hunt down optical counterparts of sources of gravitational waves — tiny ripples in spacetime generated by colliding black holes and neutron stars and detected for the first time in 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO).

During the contraction a wave blast revealed by extreme ultraviolet radiation spreads away from the source of the flare.

Virgo will improve physicists» ability to locate the source of each new event, by comparing millisecond - scale differences in the arrival time of incoming gravitational wave signals.

Gravitational wave detectors of the future will refine our newly discovered «sense» by broadening the range of detectable gravitational waves and pinpointing their sources.

For astronomers who observe the universe through radio waves generated by stars and galaxies, interference from an Earth - based source can easily drown out any far - off signal.

A gravitational wave from a distance source stretches space by an infinitesimal amount, and to detect that rhythmic stretching LIGO employs two gigantic optical devices called interferometers, which essentially act as gigantic rulers.

Power will be supplied by an external source that beams radio waves through the skin and skull.

They detected the absorption of radio waves by gas clouds in front of bright radio sources.

Although the signal we detected was incredibly weak, it was a pristine representation of the waves emitted by the source, unaffected by its 1.3 billion year journey to us.

«By studying these longer waves, we can look at the sources of light that are cooler than, say, the lightbulb filaments or the sun that normally produce the light that we see.»

This latest study is part of ongoing research by the University and key partners into waves as a renewable energy source.

Gravity waves should be generated by many sources, including colliding black holes and exploding stars, but LISA should also be able to detect waves created immediately after the birth of the cosmos.

Infrasonic waves, with frequencies much lower than an audible voice, can be generated by sources as diverse as volcanoes, earthquakes, rocket launches and meteor air blasts.

By studying computer simulations of astrophysical phenomena, scientists can figure out what type of signals to expect from various gravitational wave sources.

By adjusting the material properties of the object and the polarizations and synchronization of the individual light waves in the beam, physicists can make the object radiate more light forward along the beam than backward toward its source.

Tsunamis triggered by point - source events such as volcanic collapses or submarine landslides are not likely to have as wide an impact because the waves appear to dissipate quickly with distance.

Researchers simulated the environment found inside these planets by creating shock waves in plastic with an intense optical laser at the Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) instrument at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's X-ray free - electron laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS).

Using Jarzynski and Crooks» formulation, he derived a generalization of the second law of thermodynamics that holds for systems of particles with certain characteristics: The systems are strongly driven by an external energy source such as an electromagnetic wave, and they can dump heat into a surrounding bath.

If the X-ray source was caused by a GRB triggered by the merger of neutron star with a black hole or another neutron star, then gravitational waves would also have been produced..

When the gravitational wave event GW170817 was detected, astronomers rushed to search for the source using conventional telescopes (see the Introduction by Smith).

Because of Virgo's loss of sensitivity with the wire suspensions, it will not be able to detect gravitational waves independently, but it will be able to help confirm a potential detection made by LIGO and locate sources in the sky with greater accuracy.

The centre of our Galaxy, 27 000 light years away in the constellation of Sagittarius, is marked by a peculiar source of radio waves named Sagittarius A * (pronounced «ay star»).

In this case, they have been able to narrow the possible regions of sky that could host the source of the gravitational waves by 10 times more than with LIGO alone.

Researchers at Tohoku University have found a way to make covered or hidden PC steel wires visible, by developing a new terahertz wave light source featuring both light and radio - wave characteristics.

The same happens to radio waves as they are compressed and expanded by a moving source.

Led by Carnegie's Ho - kwang «Dave» Mao, the research team believes that as much as 300 million tons of water could be carried down into Earth's interior every year and generate deep, massive reservoirs of iron dioxide, which could be the source of the ultralow velocity zones that slow down seismic waves at the core - mantle boundary.

By comparing that figure with the waves» amplitude at the source, which the researchers can derive from the shape of the signal, and by knowing how the amplitude decreases with distance, which they get from Einstein's theory, they can then calculate the distance of the source to a much higher precisioBy comparing that figure with the waves» amplitude at the source, which the researchers can derive from the shape of the signal, and by knowing how the amplitude decreases with distance, which they get from Einstein's theory, they can then calculate the distance of the source to a much higher precisioby knowing how the amplitude decreases with distance, which they get from Einstein's theory, they can then calculate the distance of the source to a much higher precision.

Led by Geophysical Laboratory's Ho - kwang «Dave» Mao, the research team believes that as much as 300 million tons of water could be carried down into Earth's interior every year and generate deep, massive reservoirs of iron dioxide, which could be the source of the ultralow velocity zones that slow down seismic waves at the core - mantle boundary.

By instead applying polarized light (light waves that vibrate on one plane) in a process the researchers coined Oosight, the eggs stayed healthy, allowing the scientists to finally clone the rhesus monkey embryos [source: BBC].

radiation Energy, emitted by a source, that travels through space in waves or as moving subatomic particles.

Coral reefs provide an important ecosystem for life underwater, protect coastal areas by reducing the power of waves hitting the coast, and provide a crucial source of income for millions of people.

Astronomers need to know how much of their astronomical data has been contaminated by radio waves given off by air molecules, the telescope's own electronics, and other sources of interference.

Coverage can also be complicated by a wave of restricted and / or conflicting information from international, national and even local sources.

Another of his recent work, on how to strategically point telescopes to find electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave sources, was adapted for observations by the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico, which successfully observed radio emission from the merger.

«Over the next years, LIGO will be putting general relativity to its most stringent tests ever, it will be discovering new sources of gravitational waves, and we will be using telescopes on the ground and in space to search for light emitted by these catastrophic events.»

Besides confirming theories about the source of some short - duration gamma - ray bursts and the formation mechanism of many of the heavy elements including platinum, lead, gold, and rare earth elements, the gravitational waves enabled us to get a distance to the galaxy independent of the usual step - by - step procedure called the «distance scale ladder».

In a jellyfish, that source is the aequorin protein, which transfers its blue light to GFP by a quantum process that some scientists compare to mind - reading — unlike sound waves, energy moves from one molecule to the other in the absence of any medium.

The results show that the gap around the node at sufficiently low temperatures can be well described by a monotonic d - wave gap function for both samples and the... ▽ More The energy gap of optimally doped Bi2 (Sr, R) 2CuOy (R = La and Eu) was probed by angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) using a vacuum ultraviolet laser (photon energy 6.994 eV) or He I resonance line (21.218 eV) as photon source.

The LIGO gravitational - wave data — combined with information obtained by the Virgo detector in Europe — and Fermi's observations indicated that the source of GW170817 was within a fairly small patch of sky in the Southern Hemisphere.

Ratner grew no less shy this weekend, according to Twitter and several Vulture sources: After a screening of his film Tower Heist at L.A.'s Arclight Cinemas, the director came out for a Q&A, and when asked by the moderator whether he prepares and rehearses with his actors before shooting a scene, Ratner waved his hand dismissively and said, «Rehearsing is for fags.»

RIM is set to release the first wave of BlackBerry 10 phones by October, sources suggest.

For those who aren't able to ride the wave of wealth created by rising stocks, more and more are turning to a different source of funds — payday loans and unsecured loans.

The chip has no power source - it's activated by a short radio wave that can be read by a scanner.

Guests at Poipu Kapili can relax in the ocean view swimming pool, play a round of tennis, pick herbs for their farmer's market sourced meal or just relax on their ocean lanai gazing at the soothing waves rolling by.

At Poipu Kapili, you can relax in the sparking oceanfront swimming pool, play a round of tennis, pick herbs for your farmer's market sourced meal or just relax on your ocean lanai, gazing at the tranquil waves rolling by.