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Meaning of "jansky"

jansky (adjective) - Relating to the unit of spectral flux density used in radio astronomy, named after Karl Jansky, the father of radio astronomy
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  • A non-SI unit (symbol Jy) measuring electromagnetic flux density equal to 10⁻²⁶ watts per square meter per hertz.
  • A surname.

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Jansky stripped out most of the interference.
This range makes the jansky a suitable unit for radio astronomy.
Jansky recognized three sources of radio noise.
The flux to which the jansky refers can be in any form of energy.
Jansky nodded again.
I have looked up the Jansky unit again.
See jansky for further information about related units.
Later astronomers confirmed that Jansky had discovered a super massive black hole.
Karl Jansky detects the first radio waves coming from space.
It took several decades … for scientists to realize that Jansky was on to something.
Jansky is a lunar impact crater that lies along the eastern limb of the Moon.
Using this ungainly radio receiver … Jansky methodically scanned the airwaves.
Jansky detected the radio signature of the Milky Way.
After two years of careful work, Jansky stripped out most of the interference.
Jansky was studying the origins of radio frequency interference for Bell Laboratories.

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Naturally occurring radio emission from the sky was accidentally discovered in 1931 by Karl Jansky.
At first, Jansky thought this meant it was radiation from the sun.
The first to take notice was the physicist Karl Jansky back in the 1930s.
More recently, Jansky and colleagues also created inbred diploid lines.
Jansky stripped out most of the interference . But one strange signal never went away.
In 1931, Bell Labs engineer Karl Jansky picks up mysterious radio waves emanating from deep space.
Jansky ( symbol Jy ) A unit of flux density used in radio and infrared astronomy.
In 1931, American physicist Karl Jansky first detected radio static from our own Milky Way galaxy.
Jansky finally determined that the " faint hiss " repeated on a cycle of 23 hours and 56 minutes.
Eventually, Jansky pinpointed this location somewhere in the region of the constellation Sagittarius.
Karl Jansky made the discovery of the first astronomical radio source serendipitously in the early 1930s.
The jansky was named to honor American Karl Gothe Jansky who developed radio astronomy in 1932.
Ferdinand I . Jansky took over in 2000 with a volunteer leadership of the theatre.
What Jansky had observed was the 14.6m wavelength radio wave from the Milky Way 's core.

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