The Sky Polarization Observatory (SPOrt) was an Italian instrument planned for launch to the International Space Station in for a planned 2-year mission...
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Sport, an Austrian paraglider design Sky Polarization Observatory (SPOrt), a cancelled Italian space observatory Sportcoat or sports coat, a type of jacket...
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Cosmic microwave background (redirect from Cosmic microwave background polarization)
variation in polarization. The polarisation at each direction in the sky has an orientation described in terms of E-mode and B-mode polarization. The E-mode...
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Chandrasekhar polarization Bagnulo, S. (2003). "Observations of magnetic Ap stars at the Pic-du-Midi Observatory: From broadband linear polarization measurements...
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John (December 1868). "On the Blue Colour of the Sky, the Polarization of Skylight, and on the Polarization of Light by Cloudy Matter Generally". Proceedings...
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originally consisted of two independent modules, EXPOSE and Sky Polarization Observatory (SPOrt). EXPOSE was a facility holding multiple exobiology experiments...
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constructed. One of the primary goals of the Simons Observatory are polarization maps of the sky with an order of magnitude better sensitivity than the Planck...
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Photographs helped "to derive coronal brightness and polarization, along with sky brightness and polarization". Several missions were made in 1960s. Three NC-135...
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Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) is a radio astronomy observatory located near Big Pine, California (US) in Owens Valley. It lies east of the Sierra...
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Planck (spacecraft) (redirect from Planck observatory)
observatory was launched in May 2009 and reached the Earth/Sun L2 point by July 2009. By February 2010, it had successfully started a second all-sky survey...
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has produced the highest resolution all-sky map to-date of both the temperature anisotropies and polarization signals. Current scientific goals for CMB...
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The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) was an 80/20 joint project of NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to construct and...
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also operates the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopy Telescope (LAMOST) and one of the largest radio observatory, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture...
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diagram Skin depth Skin effect Skip distance Skip reentry Sky Polarization Observatory Sky anchor Sky brightness Skyrmion Slack water Slater-type orbital Slater...
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DSA-2000 (category Gravitational wave observatories)
Radio Observatory, but located in Nevada USA. Its main goal is a sky survey, acting as a radio camera to produce an archive of images of the entire sky visible...
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LIGO (redirect from Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory)
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory designed to detect cosmic gravitational...
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Cosmic Background Imager (category Astronomical observatories in Chile)
detected fluctuations in the polarization of the microwave background obtaining the first detailed E-mode polarization spectrum providing evidence that...
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POLARBEAR (category Astronomical observatories in Chile)
POLARBEAR (POLARization of the Background Radiation) is a cosmic microwave background polarization experiment located in the Atacama Desert of northern...
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Parkes Observatory is a radio astronomy observatory, located 20 kilometres (12 mi) north of the town of Parkes, New South Wales, Australia. It hosts Murriyang...
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Monitor (Fermi-GBM) and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has pointed to lower gamma-ray burst polarization. But the authors have also stated that those...
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A gravitational-wave detector (used in a gravitational-wave observatory) is any device designed to measure tiny distortions of spacetime called gravitational...
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long-term optical sky surveys: OGLE and ASAS. Both these surveys take sky images using dedicated telescopes located at the Las Campanas Observatory, Chile. Scientific staff...
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the orientation of the incoming electromagnetic waves (polarization) at every point on the sky with an angular resolution of 0.73 degrees. The angular...
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Llano de Chajnantor Observatory is the name for a group of astronomical observatories located at an altitude of over 4,800 m (15,700 ft) in the Atacama...
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Extragalactic Polarization) and the Keck Array are a series of cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments. They aim to measure the polarization of the CMB;...
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Light pollution (redirect from Sky pollution)
pollution competes with starlight in the night sky for urban residents, interferes with astronomical observatories, and, like any other form of pollution, disrupts...
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Antenna (radio) (redirect from Polarization (antenna))
vertical polarization; if turned on its side the same antenna's polarization will be horizontal. Reflections generally affect polarization. Radio waves...
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South Pole Telescope (category Astronomical observatories in the Antarctic)
surveying large areas of sky, which is required to achieve the science goals of the SPT cluster survey and CMB polarization measurements. The first camera...
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QUIET (category Astronomical observatories in Chile)
QUIET was an astronomy experiment to study the polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation. QUIET stands for Q/U Imaging ExperimenT. The...
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The Peach Mountain Observatory (PMO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of Michigan (UM). It is located near the village...
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