Sentences with phrase «many other astronomers»

The team also publish their findings in two papers in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and the data are now publicly available for other astronomers to make further discoveries.

After Jenkins and his colleagues have weeded out sunspots and other planet poseurs from the data, Marcy and other astronomers use the Doppler wobble method with terrestrial telescopes to verify that the remaining planet candidates, or «objects of interest,» are indeed planets.

Other astronomers are examining the smallest known brown dwarfs — which are around 10 times as massive as Jupiter — to determine the minimum mass needed for gravity to pull a pocket of gas and dust together to form a star.

Other astronomers say the method of pulling faint planetary signals out of background noise needs to be verified.

In the late 1980s, Bodhan Paczynski of Princeton University and several other astronomers realized there was a way to detect unseen compact bodies that might be lurking in the halo of our galaxy.

He and other astronomers say the spinning binary, just 1.8 AU apart, could create «gravitational chaos» near the hypothesized planet, perhaps flinging it from the system.

Charting individual planets aside, other astronomers continued their efforts at mapping the entire universe, hoping to answer the question of whether space is finite.

While other astronomers, including Hubble, assumed that the distribution of galaxies throughout the universe was more or less uniform, Zwicky argued that «practically all» galaxies belonged to clusters.

Schaefer and a group of other astronomers will start out near Casper, Wyo., but they're ready to jump in the car and drive anywhere else along the eclipse path if it looks like it might be cloudy.

After their first announcement in The Astronomical Journal, Brown and Batygin released a paper in March telling other astronomers where to look for the world.

Now, other astronomers have clocked the speed of this outflow in work that may eventually resolve the key question raised by its discovery: What caused it?

At the same time, other astronomers have been discovering Jupiter - mass or smaller bodies circling nearby stars.

Law, team leader Shami Chatterjee of Cornell University and other astronomers on the team will present their findings today at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Grapevine, Texas, in the scientific journal Nature, and in two companion papers to appear in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

For the next several decades Herbig, Haro, and other astronomers struggled unsuccessfully to explain the nature of these bright knots of gas, now called HH objects.

However, other astronomers are still not convinced that the object qualifies as a planet.

Morse and other astronomers have used computer models of shock waves to make detailed predictions of the diagnostics.

How do you help them publish their results and share them with other astronomers?

Many other astronomers — going back to Aristotle's time — had proposed the theory.

Other astronomers agree that the star is a real space oddity.

What's more, Guyon and other astronomers say that further, as yet unfunded upgrades could also allow the VLT to spy any smaller, Earth - size planets in Alpha Centauri.

Since then, other astronomers had tried other methods of filtering out the star's noisy signal, and found that the evidence for planet Bb was inconclusive.

Since the discovery, they and other astronomers have found 16 additional worlds in this part of the Solar System.

Using data obtained by other astronomers, the team created computer models of what globular clusters should look like in the presence and absence of dark matter halos.

According to Ed Weiler, NASA's project scientist at headquarters for the EUVE, «Other astronomers thought he was crazy.»

SETI efforts to date have only garnered a small, scattered amount of time on large radio telescopes, and they typically «piggyback» on other scientific observations, passively listening to whatever target other astronomers are investigating.

Elbert said he expects many more gravitation wave detections so that he and other astronomers can determine if black holes collide mostly in giant galaxies.

Other astronomers are seeking out additional archival measurements of the star's brightness to learn more about its long - term dimming.

He, Natarajan, and other astronomers have been looking for these kinds baby black holes, hoping to confirm that they do, indeed, exist and then trying to work out their origins from the downstream consequences.

Even if Batygin and Brown can convince other astronomers that Planet X exists, they face another challenge: explaining how it ended up so far from the sun.

In the past, other astronomers considered NGC 1400 to be a foreground galaxy, in the same direction as NGC 1407 but at only one - third of the distance.

So Marengo and two other astronomers decided to take a close look at the star using data taken with the Infrared Array Camera of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Other astronomers have claimed to find galaxies at even greater distances — at redshifts of 10 and 9, but those findings are still ambiguous, says Joshua Bloom of the University of California, Berkeley, who observed the afterglow using the Gemini South telescope in Chile.

Wendy Freedman of the Carnegie Observatories in California, Barry Madore of the California Institute of Technology, and 25 other astronomers searched M100, a large spiral galaxy.

Other astronomers had deduced that while spacing two telescopes just the right distance apart would suppress light at the center of the field of view, the suppression became even deeper if you flanked the telescopes with two more, smaller scopes, one on each side.

But other astronomers claim the objects are very puny brown dwarfs, a type of failed star.

Postdoctoral research fellow David Kipping has often seen other astronomers don smart jackets when attending meetings or giving presentations, especially when they knew that funding powers - that - be would also be there.

Other astronomers find the detections convincing, although most reserve the name «planet» for bodies that form within a planetary system and orbit stars, says theorist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C. «They should call them «planetary - mass brown dwarfs,»» Boss says.

But other astronomers are more skeptical.

Use of these telescopes was generally restricted to the community they served, even excluding other astronomers within the same nation.

«You can see that this is an indirect method,» Maciejewski says, acknowledging that others have claimed planetary detections by transit timing in the past, only to have other astronomers rule out the purported finds.

[2] Other astronomers, including Friedrich Winnecke, Edward Charles Pickering, Ernst Hartwig and Ernst Zinner looked for a star in this location without success.

Other astronomers, not initially believing Tifft's results, did similar work and reached the same conclusion — one that undermines the foundations of cosmology.

Other astronomers weren't necessarily surprised, but it adds even more complexity to Haumea's already long story.

Within his search for nebulae, Charles Messier both undertook own scans, leading to 19 original Messier discoveries during that year, and used all the catalogs compiled previously by other astronomers he had access to: Edmond Halley's list of 6 objects, the catalog of William Derham, who chiefly had extracted from Hevelius» star catalog, Prodomus Astronomiae, which was available in a French translation by Pierre de Maupertuis, and Nicolas Lacaille's Catalog of Southern «Nebulae» of 1755, as well as lists of Maraldi and Le Gentil, with some references to (but very probably not the list of) De Chéseaux, probably from Le Gentil.

Also that year, other astronomers produced a «movie» showing motions in the jet of material ejected from the disk around Scorpius X-1's neutron star.

Chatterjee and other astronomers presented their findings to the American Astronomical Society's meeting in Grapevine, Texas, in the scientific journal Nature, and in companion papers in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Other astronomers had looked for radio emission from brown dwarfs and not found any.

Other astronomers have theorized that giant black holes in the heart of the galaxies blew strong winds that expelled the gas.

However, later observations by other astronomers using interferometric astrometry and recent radial velocity data found no evidence to support the existence of a companion greater than 0.8 Jupiter mass with an orbital period around Proxima Centauri of between one and about 2.7 years (Benedict et al, 1999).

He dubbed it Georgium Sidus — Latin for «George's Star» — after his sponsor King George III, but other astronomers protested, and it was eventually given the name Uranus, sticking with the usual nomenclature of ancient Greek / Roman gods.