Sentences with phrase «eclipsing binaries orbit»
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?
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We obtained follow - up optical spectra of 105/141 candidate host stars and 8/16 eclipsing binaries to improve stellar properties and to identify spectroscop... ▽ More We present 151 planet candidates orbiting 141 stars from K2 campaigns 5 - 8 (C5 - C8), identified through a systematic search of K2 photometry.
That cluster is also devoid of the heavy chemical elements thought necessary to evolve a planet.8 At least 30 separate planets each orbit a pair of suns whose constantly changing positions would disrupt any slow evolution of a planet.9 One planet has been repeatedly observed eclipsing each of the eccentric binary stars it orbits.
«It's the longest duration stellar eclipse and the longest orbit for an eclipsing binary ever found... by far,» said the paper's first author Vanderbilt doctoral student Joey Rodriguez.