Sentences with phrase «debris disks using»

Not exact matches

The astronomers narrowed their search to stars between five and ten million years old — old enough to host full - fledged planetary systems and debris disks — and used ALMA to examine the millimeter - wavelength «glow» from the carbon monoxide in the stars» debris disks.

Team leader Mauri Valtonen of the University of Turku in Finland used equations derived from Einstein's theory of general relativity to show that the pulses could be caused by a small, orbiting black hole plunging into the debris disk around the larger one, situated at one end of the orbital ellipse.

Ongoing radio observations (SMA, JCMT, VLA) of Sirius A are being used to set an observationally determined standard for stellar atmosphere modeling and debris disk studies around A stars, as well as to take the first step toward characterizing potential intrinsic uncertainty in stellar emission at these wavelengths.

Abstract: We present $ H$ - band scattered light imaging of a bright debris disk around the A0 star HD 36546 obtained from the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) system with data recorded by the HiCIAO camera using the vector vortex coronagraph.

Kalas and his team first used Hubble to photograph Fomalhaut in 2004, and made the unexpected discovery of its debris disk, which scatters Fomalhaut's starlight.

Infrared interferometric observations of Denebola's debris disk were used by Akeson et al (2009) to model two possible bands of dust beginning around 0.13 AU (and extending for 0.3 AUs) and around 13 AUs (extending for 6.2 AUs).

We used Herschel / PACS to detect the thermal emission of the three debris disks with a 3 sigma sensitivity of a few mJy at 100 um and 160 um.