Sentences with phrase «detecting planetary transits»

Not exact matches

Three years later Charbonneau found himself locked in a race with Deming to be the first to detect the flip side of a planetary transit — the moment, called secondary eclipse, when a planet passes behind its star.

What the search for planetary transits has in common with the observation of starquakes is the need to stare at the same stars for a long time — long enough to detect very slow vibrations or to detect at least three transits of a planet.

Measuring photons, Kepler detects lower light values — and thus, a planetary transit.

Transit signals detected in 2013 observations indicate that planetary candidate c could be an Earth - sized planet with a year lasting no more than 20.4 days, putting it slightly further out than Bb but still scorchingly close to the star (Demory et al, 2015; and Jacob Aron, New Scientist, March 27, 2015).

A third mission, called PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars), proposed using a number of small, optically fast, wide - field telescopes to detect and characterize a large number of close - by exoplanetary systems.

We detected the transit light - curve signature in the course of the TrES multi-site transiting planet survey, and confirmed the planetary nature of the companion via multicolor photometry and precise radial velocity measurements.

«This new planetary system presents various peculiarities which make it extraordinarily interesting, e.g., it was detected by the Kepler spatial observatory through the planetary transit method (occultations similar to eclipses)», Barrado details.

On Wednesday, February 2, 2011, NASA's Kepler Mission revealed that, thus far, it has detected 1,235 planetary candidates orbiting 907 host stars, from a survey of some 155,453 stars in constellations Cygnus and Lyra using the transit method which requires a rare orbital alignment across the face of the host star as seen from the Solar System.