Definitions

1. A Jansky is technically a unit of "flux density," represented by F ν. (Web site)
2. Jansky was born in Norman, Oklahoma, and studied at the University of Wisconsin where he received his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1927. (Web site)
3. Jansky was assigned the job of investigating the sources of static that might interfere with radio voice transmissions. (Web site)
4. Jansky was re-assigned to another project and did no further work in the field of astronomy.
5. Jansky was then assigned to work on other projects at Bell Laboratories and never had the opportunity to continue his work on stellar radio waves. (Web site)

Jansky Award

1. Burke was in Tucson last Friday to receive the 33rd Karl G. Jansky award for his pioneering work in radio astronomy.

Radio Engineer

1. Karl Jansky was not an astronomer, but a radio engineer who inadvertently made an important contribution to astronomical science. (Web site)

Nrao Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

1. The NRAO postdoctoral fellowship program is named after Jansky.
2. The NRAO postdoctoral fellowship program is named after Karl Jansky. (Web site)

Faint Hiss

1. Jansky rotated his antenna and carefully measured the timing of the faint hiss.

Developed Radio Astronomy

1. The jansky was named to honor Karl Gothe Jansky who developed radio astronomy in 1932.

Karl Guthe

1. The era of radio telescopes (along with radio astronomy) was born with Karl Guthe Jansky 's serendipitous discovery of astronomical radio source in 1931. (Web site)

American Radio Engineer

1. Karl G. Jansky (1905-1949) was an American radio engineer who pioneered and developed radio astronomy. (Web site)
2. In 1931 Karl G. Jansky, an American radio engineer, detected radio waves from outer space. (Web site)

Papers

1. Jansky was, however, able to use his papers on "star noise" as a thesis for his master's degree. (Web site)
2. It turned out to be a box of letters and papers from, you guessed it, Karl Jansky.

Sun

1. This type of static peaked once a day, so Jansky initially concluded that it was produced by the Sun. (Web site)
2. The location of maximum intensity rose and fell once a day, leading Jansky to initially surmise that he was detecting radiation from the Sun.

Sky

1. The pioneer of amateur radio astronomy was Karl Jansky who started observing the sky at radio wavelengths in the 1930s, and interest has increased over time.

Engineer

1. Modern radio astronomy started with a serendipitous discovery by Karl Guthe Jansky, an engineer with Bell Telephone Laboratories, in the early 1930s. (Web site)

Cycle

1. Jansky finally determined that the "faint hiss" repeated on a cycle of 23 hours and 56 minutes. (Web site)

Space

1. It is named after Karl Jansky, the American physicist who discovered radio waves from space in 1930. (Web site)
2. In 1932 an American radio engineer named Karl Jansky discovered that radio emissions causing interference on radio broadcasts were coming from space. (Web site)

Bell

1. When Bell realized that nothing could be done about the hiss-type static that Jansky was studying, they assigned him to a different project. (Web site)
2. Jansky made other contributions to the understanding of radio communications while he worked at Bell. (Web site)

Oklahoma

1. The third of six children, Karl Guthe Jansky was born in Norman, Oklahoma, while that region was still a territory. (Web site)

Third Type

1. Jansky spent over a year investigating the third type of static. (Web site)

Working

1. Jansky wrote to his father in January 1934, as quoted in the Invisible Universe Revealed: "I'm not working on the interstellar waves anymore. (Web site)
2. Working at a shorter wavelength than Jansky, 60 centimeters instead of 15 meters, he began to spot emission peaks in the Milky Way. (Web site)
3. The first radio telescope was accidentally built by Karl Jansky while working at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Job

1. Jansky was assigned the job of investigating sources of static that might interfere with radio telephone service. (Web site)

Physics

1. C. M. Jansky was an engineer with a strong interest in physics, a trait passed on to his sons.

Own Milky Way Galaxy

1. Indeed, what Jansky had found was radio noise emitted from the center of our own Milky Way Galaxy. (Web site)

Unknown Origin

1. Using a large directional antenna, Jansky noticed that his analog pen-and-paper recording system kept recording a repeating signal of unknown origin. (Web site)

Source

1. Jansky built a steerable antenna and began searching for the source of the noise by taking directional measurements. (Web site)
2. Stymied by the source of the interference, Jansky constructed a large but crude antenna system that he could rotate.

Cyril

1. He was named after Dr. Karl Guthe, who had been an important mentor to Karl's father, Cyril M. Jansky.

Basic Unit

1. But astronomers remembered his pioneering contributions by naming the basic unit of radio brightness the "jansky" in his honor. (Web site)

Unit

1. In 1973, the General Assembly of the International Astronomer's Union adopted the Jansky as a unit of measurement. (Web site)
2. One solar-luminosity Also sometimes encountered is the Jansky, a unit of radiated power used in radio astronomy.
3. The unit "jansky" is named after the pioneering radio astronomer Karl Jansky.

Si Unit

1. Although it is not an SI unit, the jansky is approved by the International Astronomical Union and is widely used by astronomers. (Web site)

Hertz

1. The Jansky is equal to one-hundreth of one trillionth of a trillionth of a watt per square meter per Hertz.

Wisconsin

1. Jansky attended college at the University of Wisconsin where he received his BS in physics in 1927.
2. It was in Wisconsin that Karl Jansky began his formal education.

Turntable

1. The antenna that Jansky assembled at Holmdel was mounted on wheels and moved on a turntable. (Web site)

Karl

1. Karl Jansky, often referred to as the father of radio astronomy, was born on October 22, 1905 in Norman, Oklahoma.
2. Karl Jansky attended college at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he received his BS in physics in 1927. (Web site)
3. The initial detection of radio waves from an astronomical object was made in the 1930s, when Karl Jansky observed radiation coming from the Milky Way.

Work

1. In 1928, with a physics degree from the University of Wisconsin, Jansky went to work for Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey.
2. His interest was aroused in 1933 by the work of Karl Jansky. (Web site)

Bell Labs

1. Working at Bell Labs, Jansky "was given the task of investigating factors that could interfere with radio waves used for long-distance communication. (Web site)
2. Bell Labs built a monument for Karl Jansky in the form of a scale model of his antenna. (Web site)

Static

1. As a radio engineer, Jansky was assigned the job of investigating sources of static that might interfere with radio voice transmissions.
2. Jansky was assigned the job of identifying sources of static that might interfere with radio telephone service. (Web site)
3. At Bell, Harald Friis assigned Jansky the job of determining what was causing the static. (Web site)

Signal

1. Jansky also determined that the signal repeated on a cycle of 23 hours and 56 minutes.

Radio Signal

1. Jansky wanted to build a better instrument to investigate the radio signal from space.

Antenna

1. By rotating the antenna and recording the radio signal as it strengthened or weakened, Jansky could figure out the source of the signal.
2. Jansky built an antenna designed to receive radio waves at a frequency of 20.5 MHz (wavelength about 14.6 meters). (Web site)
3. Jansky recorded the intensity of the hiss-type static, and he observed that it peaked when the antenna was pointed at a certain part of the sky. (Web site)

Milky Way

1. Jansky had observed that the static was most intense when his antenna was aimed at the center of the Milky Way, the galaxy in which Earth is located. (Web site)
2. Jansky wanted to follow up on this discovery and investigate the radio waves from the Milky Way in further detail.
3. Jansky followed up this work with another report in 1935 which linked the radio waves to the distribution of the Milky Way. (Web site)

Milky Way Galaxy

1. Jansky found that the Milky Way galaxy is a source of radio emission. (Web site)
2. May May - Detection by Karl Jansky of radio waves from the centre of the Milky Way galaxy reported May 2 - First modern sighting of the Loch Ness Monster.

Karl Jansky

1. Karl Jansky was named after Dr. Karl Guthe, who had been an important mentor to Cyril M. Jansky. (Web site)
2. So Bell Laboratories assigned a young engineer, Karl Jansky, to identify the sources of the static. (Web site)
3. At AT&T Bell Labs in New Jersey, a young radio engineer named Karl Jansky (left) was given the task of identifying the sources of shortwave noise. (Web site)

Radio Waves

1. Before Jansky observed the Milky Way in the 1930s, physicists speculated that radio waves could be observed from astronomical sources. (Web site)
2. First awarded in 1966, it is named in honor of Karl G. Jansky who, in 1932, first detected radio waves from a cosmic source.
3. Jansky wanted to follow up on this discovery and investigate the radio waves from the Milky Way Galaxy in more detail. (Web site)

Radio Astronomer

1. In 1932, radio astronomer, Karl Jansky detected radio waves coming from an unknown source in the centre of our galaxy.
2. The first "radio astronomer" was Karl Jansky, who studied mysterious radio interference he picked up with his antenna. (Web site)

Radio Astronomy

1. Jansky did the job so well that he established a new field of scientific study: radio astronomy. (Web site)
2. Jansky was assigned to another project and did no more radio astronomy. (Web site)
3. The discovery by Karl Jansky in 1931 that radio signals were emitted by celestial bodies initiated the science of radio astronomy. (Web site)

Jansky

1. In honor to Jansky, the unit used by radio astronomers for the strength (or flux density) of radio sources is the jansky (symbolic form, Jy). (Web site)
2. Radio astronomy was pioneered by Karl G. Jansky, who in 1932 first detected radio waves from a cosmic source - in the central region of the Milky Way Galaxy. (Web site)
3. Radio astronomers use the Jansky to express the flux density (strength) of radio sources in the sky.

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