Sentence examples for as distance markers from inspiring English sources

It was discovered 10 years ago by astronomers who were using exploding stars called supernovas as distance markers to chart the expansion of the universe.

For the last 20 years, astronomers seeking to measure the cosmos have used a special type of exploding star, known as Type 1a supernovas, as distance markers.

The discovery that the expansion of the cosmos was speeding up came from observing exploding stars known as Type 1A supernovas, luminous and uniform enough to serve as distance markers.

This is unfortunate because paramagnetic metal centers are frequent in biological systems and so far have not been employed much as distance markers.

We divided the transect into intervals of 5 m and used flagging tape as distance markers.

Most of the previous studies, including those that led to the discovery of dark energy, used exploding stars known as Type 1a supernovas as cosmic distance markers.

The astronomers who made this discovery were using the exploding stars known as Type 1a supernovae as cosmic distance markers to track the expansion rate of the universe.

The work, using the brightness and rotation speeds of spiral galaxies as a cosmic distance marker, propelled the young astronomers into the middle of a bitter, longstanding debate among older astronomers who could not agree within a factor of 2 about the size and age of the universe.

As shown in Figure  3, LD declined as the distance between markers in all populations increased, and r 2 converged to 0.02 approximately at around 2, 4 and 5 Mb on micro-, intermediand, and macro-chromosomes, respectively.

The 'linkage signal' decayed as the distance between markers and the target locus increased.

The correlation gradually decayed as the distance between markers increased but still remained high (0.87 to 0.93), even if SNPs were about 5 Mb apart.