Sentences with phrase «binary systems studied»

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Among other expected insights, a more detailed study of the chaotic Pluto - Charon system could reveal how planets orbiting a distant binary star might behave.

The study, published in the June 4 issue of the journal Nature, describes a system dominated by Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, which together form a «binary planet.»

Mordehai Milgrom began his career studying objects called ultracompact neutron stars in binary star systems.

What looked at first like a sort of upside - down planet has instead revealed a new method for studying binary star systems, discovered by a University of Washington student astronomer.

We also want to start studying the known Y dwarfs in more detail to determine more - precise temperature estimates, estimate their masses, determine if any of them are actually binary systems and so on.

«Upside - down planet» reveals new method for studying binary star systems.»

The team studied the binary system and the chemical composition of the debris by measuring the absorption of different wavelengths of light or «spectra», using the Gemini Observatory South telescope and the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope, both located in Chile.

An earlier study of another system with the GBT detected the first evidence of an accretion disk around a neutron star, which helped establish the link between low - mass X-ray binaries and pulsars.

Studying pulsar binary systems could be a good way to observe them and check that the predictions of general relativity are true.

In their study, Rasio, Rodriguez and colleagues describe in detail the dynamical interaction processes that could form a merging binary black hole system.

This study gives us confidence that a S0 - 2 binary system will not significantly affect our ability to measure gravitational redshift.»

My research concentrates on the study of exploding stars — mainly nova outbursts caused by thermonuclear explosions on the surface of white dwarfs in binary star systems.

When eclipsing binaries orbit each other closely, within about 10 days or less, the study authors wondered, do tides — the gravitational forces each exerts on the other — have «dynamical consequences» to the star system?

Astronomers studying two rare types of binary systems containing rapidly spinning neutron stars called pulsars have observed some unique behavior — these pulsars consume their mates.

«Several interpretations of the nature of this system have been proposed, from an isolated slowly spinning magnetar with a substantial fossil - disk, to a young low mass X-ray binary system, or even a binary magnetar, but none of them is straightforward, nor can they explain the overall observational properties,» researchers said in a study, published in the Sept. 2, 2016, issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

In a study published in the journal Nature, researchers led by Michael Shara, from the American Museum of Natural History, New York, started looking back at thousands of years» worth of historical records of binary systems that could have been responsible.

In an earlier study, also published in MNRAS, researchers concluded that small bodies such as asteroids are more likely to be flung out of binary star systems than systems with single stars (like the solar system).

Aside from writing the book on symbiotic stars (The Symbiotic Stars, published by Cambridge University Press), I study the physical structure and long - term evolution of these binary systems.

In the early 1990s, one study found that coplanarity between the orbital and equatorial planes of nearby binaries (within 100 parsecs or 326 ly) that are composed of Sol - type stars (F5 - K5 V) «exists» for binaries with orbital separations up to the average orbital distance of Pluto in the Solar System — roughly 40 times the Earth - Sun distance or «astronomical unit» (AU).

Although, whether in fact the systems have actually been reformed is also of debate in that states are still using many of the same observational systems they were using prior (i.e., not the «binary checklists» exaggerated in the original as well as this report, albeit true in the case of the district of focus in this study).

A study of the NiSi to NiSi2 transition in the Ni — Si binary system: B.A Julies, D Knoesen, R Pretorius and D Adams

Thermal Fluid for Integrated CSP Storage System: Thermo - physical, Stability and Compatibility Study on a Molten Nitrates Binary Mixture