arcminute

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• The image spans approximately 2.5 x 2.5 arcminutes.

  Blog text (20)

• When several of them have seen the same burst, astronomers have been able to triangulate the burst location to high precision—within arcminutes, at best.

  Academic text (1996)

• That is, each antenna views the same region on the sky with a resolving power of 35 arcminutes.

  Academic text (1996)

• The naked eye provides a light-gathering aperture of only a few millimeters and a resolution of about an arcminute.

  Academic text (2003)

• A typical beam size at centimeter wavelengths is 10 arcminutes, a sixth of a degree.

  Academic text (1996)

• Its disk will subtend about one arcminute, or about 1/30th the diameter of the Sun, so Venus will be easily visible using simple solar-projection devices.

  Academic text (2004)

• This fast focal ratio also gives CELT a wide field of view, approximately 20 arcminutes, compared with the 1- to 3-arcminute fields of Keck and the Hubble Space Telescope.

  Academic text (2002)

• For 25-meter dishes, such as those at Westerbork or the VLA, the half-power beam width at a wavelength of 20 centimeters is 35 arcminutes.

  Academic text (1996)

• On a scale of 1.5 arcminutes, Juan Uson and Dave Wilkinson find that the fluctuations in temperature are less than a few parts in 100,000. Although upper limits seem less interesting than detections, these measurements indicate that matter distribution in the early universe was remarkably uniform.

  Academic text (1990)

• A full moon measures half a degree across, or 30 arcminutes, as does the sun.

Synonyms

M

minute

vsarcminute

• Specialized

85 7.7

A unit of angle equal to one sixtieth of a degree

has identical meaning but is written as one single word

M

minute of arc

vsarcminute

• Specialized

1 7.9

A small unit for measuring angles equal to one sixtieth of a degree

has identical meaning but is written as a multiword phrase

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