Sentences with phrase «eclipsing binary star systems»

Piper Michelle Reid, Dripping Springs High School, Dripping Springs, Texas Photometric and Spectroscopic Analysis for the Determination of Physical Parameters of an Eclipsing Binary Star System

Not exact matches

Detailed analyses of light from the object suggest that, as seen from Earth, the binary system is seen edge on, with each bright blue star eclipsing the other on a regular basis.

Next they ruled out a false positive, usually caused by an eclipsing binary - star system in the background, with two relatively small telescopes on the ground, which offer better spatial resolution than COROT does.

In the original work by Brown, slightly different classes of false positives were used: MPU (main - sequence star with a giant planet); MSU (undiluted binaries); and the two types of diluted binaries, MSDF (an eclipsing binary + a third non-related star) and MSDT (triple systems).

A well - known eclipsing binary makes up part of Algol, a multiple - star system in the constellation Perseus.

Light curve of Algol (Beta Persei), an eclipsing variable, or eclipsing binary, star system.

In an eclipsing variable, one member of a double, or binary, star system partially blocks the light of its companion as it passes in front of the latter, as observed from Earth.

Feb. 17, 2016 — Astronomers have discovered an unnamed pair of stars that sets a new record for both the longest duration stellar eclipse (3.5 years) and longest period between eclipses (69 years) in a binary system.

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?

UC Santa Barbara Astrophysicists are the first to identify two white dwarf stars in an eclipsing binary system, allowing for the first direct radius measurement of a rare white dwarf.

From subsequent follow - up observations, we rejected each of these as an astrophysical false positive, i.e. a stellar system containing an eclipsing binary, whose light curve mimics that of a Jupiter - sized planet transiting a sun - like star.

That is just what happens in a newly discovered system, known only by its astronomical catalogue number TYC 2505 -672-1, setting a new record for both the longest duration stellar eclipse and the longest period between eclipses in a binary star system.

Astrophysicists at UC Santa Barbara are the first scientists to identify two white dwarf stars in an eclipsing binary system, allowing for the first direct radius measurement of a rare white dwarf composed of pure helium.