Sentences with phrase «excess infrared radiation»

Beta Pictoris entered the limelight over 20 years ago when NASA's Infrared Astronomical Satellite detected excess infrared radiation from the star.

According to Zhang, the excess infrared radiation from haze particles in Pluto's atmosphere should be detectable by the James Webb Space Telescope, allowing confirmation of his team's hypothesis after the telescope's planned launch in 2019.

Not exact matches

These structures collect visible light and transform it into infrared radiation (heat energy) that would show up as unexpected excesses in astronomers» data.

They found that two metal - bearing white dwarfs showed an excess of infrared radiation.

That disk would — as with anything warm — radiate heat as extra infrared radiation, yet Boyajian's star shows no such excess.

This is much closer to the star than the dust discs of other main - sequence stars with excess far - infrared radiation.

Several other main - sequence stars also give out an excess of far - infrared radiation, but not nearly as much.

As the cometary fragments would move in their orbit towards aphelion, they would disappear from our line of sight completely, while producing no excess amounts of infrared radiation in the process, thus helping to explain the lack of the latter from the surveys that have been conducted with both WISE and Spitzer.

According to Akeson et al (2009), Denebola was first identified as having an circumstellar dust or «debris» disk from an excess of infrared radiation observed with the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) in 1983 (Aumann and Probst, 1991, see G448.0, GL 448, or Binfrared radiation observed with the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) in 1983 (Aumann and Probst, 1991, see G448.0, GL 448, or BInfrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) in 1983 (Aumann and Probst, 1991, see G448.0, GL 448, or BS 4534).

A starburst galaxy has an exceptionally high rate of star birth, first identified by its excess of infrared radiation from warm dust.