They monitor the light of 2,000 nearby stars, looking for the regular blips caused when a planet passes by, or transits.
It'd have been the kid in the front row with all the answers: "Miss, Miss, Miss, me please…" It monitors the light, the rain, your driving, the road ahead, pedestrians… It's fitted with Pilot Assist which means at up to 80mph it'll do the lot: steering, acceleration, deceleration, braking.
Each of the identical six-inch-diameter telescopes will view the same swath of sky near the South Pole through a different filter to monitor the light from some 8,000 stars, taking a new measurement every 10 seconds over the four-month night.
Astronomers from two groups — Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics, based in New Zealand and Japan, and the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, based in Poland and Chile — monitor the light from a vast field of background stars, looking for brief blips of increased brightness caused by a planet and its host star passing in the foreground.
Sonkaria et al. monitored the light scattering intensity and revealed that 1 mmol/L of Ca2+ could maximize the polymerization efficiency of MSR-1 MamK (Sonkaria et al., 2012).
Rutherford backscattering spectrometry and heavy ion elastic recoil detection analysis were used to determine the composition and film thickness and to monitor the light element contamination across film thickness.
To achieve these scientific goals, GIADA is composed of different modules: an optical detection system, to monitor the light scattered by single particles entering the instrument, an impact sensor, to detect the momentum carried by the particles, and five micro-balances, to measure the dust flux from different directions.
To further confirm these observations, we monitored the light absorbance of each protein solution in continuous-scanning mode (Fig. 2C E).
Staff members are able to overrule the system and a light sensor could be used to monitor the light intensity in the room and alert a nurse if a pre-defined threshold is crossed.
