Sentences with phrase «detected velocity variations»

The detected velocity variations were too small to be cause by a body orbiting star A, which is more massive (see HR 5544 on page 919).

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Due to the close binary orbital interactions of the host star with Alpha Centauri A and Star B's own increased stellar activity during recent years, the astronomers were only able to detect the radial - velocity variations of host star B that were caused by the 3.236 - day orbit of the planet (with a semi-major axis of 0.04 AU) only after more than four and a half years of careful observation.

However, no significant velocity variations were detected in subsequent studies (Pettersen and Griffin, 1980; Marcy and Benitz, 1989; and Henry and McCarthy, 1990, last page).

On March 25, 2015, a team of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope revealed observations which indicate via the transit method that Alpha Centauri B may have a second planet «c» in a hot inner orbit, just outside planet candidate «b.» After observing Alpha Centauri B in 2013 and 2014 for a total of 40 hours, the team failed to detect any transits involving planet b (previously detected using the radial velocity variations method and recently determined not to be observed edge - on in a transit orbit around Star B).

Due to the close binary orbital interactions of the host star with Alpha Centauri A and Star B's own increased stellar activity during recent years, the astronomers were only able to detect the radial - velocity variations of host star B that were caused by the 3.236 - day orbit of the planet (with a semi-major axis of 0.04 AU) only after more than three years of careful observation.

No Jupiter - class planets within 3 AUs were detected dusing radial - velocity variations by 2006 (Wittenmyer et al, 2006, page 186, Table 5; (Cumming et al, 1999; Abt and Levy, 1976, page 286, Table 2 for HR 799).

Prior to 2009, small but significant variations in radial velocity had been detected which may have been caused by a substellar companion of one to nine Jupiter - masses with an orbital period of 50 years of less (Campbell et al, 1988, pages 904, 906, and 919).

The transit signals were detected in photometric data from the Kepler satellite, and were confirmed to arise from planets using a combination of large transit - timing variations, radial - velocity variations, Warm - Spitzer observations, and statistical analysis of false - positive probabilities.

As a subgiant star subject to pulsations which affect careful measurements of variations in radial velocity caused by the gravitational pull of substellar companions, astronomers would find it very difficult to detect any Earth - type planet around Beta Hydri using present methods.

As CORVAL monitoring failed to detect significant radial velocity variations over period of 3,400 days — or over 9.3 years (Duquennoy and Mayor, 1991, pp. 492 and 506), the detection is now considered to be spurious.

An attempt to find large planets from December 1986 to February 1987 failed to detect large periodic variations in radial velocities (McMillan and Smith, 1987; more discussion at Hatzes et al, 2004).

Radial velocity variations have been detected (Andrei A. Tokovinin, 1992).

However, no changes in radial velocity were detected between 1974 and 1984 to confirm possible variations found around 1920 (R. F. Griffin, 1984; and Beardsley et al, 1974).