News tagged with array
Splitting the SKA - why a dual-site setup is a win for everyone
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a concept that's been slowly growing and evolving since 1991. But recently this ambitious project took a giant leap towards reality with the announcement of a SKA site decision.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 28, 2012 |
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Australia hails surprise super-telescope decision
Australia has hailed a surprise decision giving it a role in a radio telescope project aimed at revolutionising astronomy, vowing to draw on its decades of experience in space science.
May 26, 2012 |
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SAfrica stops short of being disappointed over SKA verdict
South Africa stopped short of expressing disappointment after it failed to win the bid to single-handily host the world's most powerful radio telescope.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 25, 2012 |
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SKA super telescope to be built in Australia, South Africa (Update 2)
A long-running joust to host a radio telescope that would give mankind its farthest peek into the Universe ended on Friday with a Solomon-like judgement to split the site between Australia and South Africa.
May 25, 2012 |
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Thousands of invisibility cloaks trap a rainbow
Many people anticipating the creation of an invisibility cloak might be surprised to learn that a group of American researchers has created 25 000 individual cloaks.
May 24, 2012 |
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NASA's NuSTAR gearing up for launch
(Phys.org) -- Final pre-launch preparations are underway for NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR. The mission, which will use X-ray vision to hunt for hidden black holes, is scheduled to ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 23, 2012 |
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NREL simulates shade conditions in repeatable test for solar arrays
The DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a new repeatable test protocol that simulates real shade conditions and can predict with much greater precision the effects of shade on a solar array.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 15, 2012 |
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Research opens doors to UV disinfection using LED technology
Research from North Carolina State University will allow the development of energy-efficient LED devices that use ultraviolet (UV) light to kill pathogens such as bacteria and viruses. The technology has a wide array of applications ...
May 14, 2012 |
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Square Kilometre Array site is already producing world-class astrophysics
CSIRO's Murchison Radioastronomy Observatory (MRO), located in remote Western Australia, is the site proposed by Australia and New Zealand to host the high-density core of the multi-billion dollar Square Kilometre Array (SKA), ...
Apr 17, 2012 |
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1000 days of infrared wonders
(Phys.org) -- For the last 1000 days the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC), aboard NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, has been operating continuously to probe the universe from its most distant regions to our local ...
Apr 16, 2012 |
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UC Berkeley passes management of Allen Telescope Array to SRI
Hat Creek Radio Observatory in Northern California, from which University of California, Berkeley, telescopes – most recently the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) – scanned the Milky Way and other galaxies for 50 years ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 13, 2012 |
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Measuring magnetic fields
(Phys.org) -- Polarized light is a familiar phenomenon, as people who prefer polarized sunglasses can testify. The electric field in a beam of light can vibrate either left-right or up-down, and the scattering ...
Apr 09, 2012 |
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Researchers develop first silicon wafer-scale 110 GHz phased array transmitter
(PhysOrg.com) -- TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, and The University of California, San Diego, provider of a leading program in microwave, millimeter-wave and mixed-signal RFICs, today announced ...
Apr 06, 2012 |
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Further delays signalled in super-telescope plan
The international consortium behind a plan to build the world's most powerful radio telescope on Wednesday signalled further delays in deciding whether it should be hosted by South Africa or Australia.
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Korean connection makes an 8,000-km telescope
Australian and Korean radio telescopes have been linked for the first time, forming a system that acts as a telescope 8000 km across.Australian and Korean radio telescopes have been linked together for the first time, forming ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Array
An array is a systematic arrangement of objects, usually in rows and columns. Specifically, it may refer to:
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