Sentences with phrase «companions are faint»
Centaurus A is much farther away, and its satellite companions are faint, making it more difficult to accurately measure distances and velocities to determine movements and distributions.
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Star C (protruding yellow spot at upper right) was confirmed as Gl 105 A's fainter companion with Palomar's 60» telescope (more).
Discovered to be a faint companion of Stars Aab by Ragnar Furuhjelm, Capella C is a red dwarf star of spectral and luminosity type M1 V.
Imaging reveals a slightly fainter companion to KELT - 22A that is likely bound, with a projected separation of 6 \ arcsec ($ \ sim $ 1400 AU).
The primary stars around which we searched for companions come from a list of bright stars with well - measured parallaxes and large proper motions from the Hipparcos catalog (8583 stars, mostly A-K ~ dwarfs) and fainter stars from other proper motion catalogues (79170 stars, mostly M ~ dwarfs).
Finally, we found that the reproducibility of the spectra of the detected faint companions is greatly improved when angular differential imaging is applied in addition to the spectral deconvolution.
The diminutive and faint companions are also apparently detected on Hubble images of Pluto from 2002, but this coming February follow - up observations are planned in an effort to confirm the discovery of the new moons.
We are now seeing planets in the blackness around other stars, very much in the same way he discovered the faint moon companions around Jupiter.
Other close companions are the well - studied Carina, Draco, Fornax, Leo I, Leo II, Sextans, Sculptor, and Ursa Minor galaxies, as well as several very faint, less well - known objects.
For a time, observers believed that Gacrux had a faint, bluish white (A3 V) binary companion lying within two minutes of arc that is still designated in the SIMBAD Astronomical Database and the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, 1991 5th Revised Edition as Gamma Crucis B (HR 4764 or HD 108925).
Brown dwarf bb, left lower center, is a less massive, cooler, and fainter companion of Epsilon Indi ba, at center (more).
In 1968, Peter van de Kamp (1901 - 1995) at Sproul Observatory detected a flare from what was presumed to be a dim companion that was two magnitudes fainter than the primary.
During that night, the scientists were able to measure the changing Doppler shift of the star NLTT 11748 as it orbited its faint, but more massive, white dwarf companion.
As a highly evolved and relatively cool orange - red giant, single star, Pollux is not much like its «twin» star Castor, which is actually composed of three sets of binary stars (as many as four bluish - white, main sequence stars with two fainter companions).
There was also some deep sense within him that had sensed that there was a faint spark of life in the little dog combined with some mysterious instinct to return his companion to him that had told him what to do.