Sentences with phrase «exoplanet surveys»

TESS, short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, will be the first NASA science mission launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Most planet hunters now pin their immediate hopes for discovering Earth - like planets on NASA's upcoming Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, which is slated to launch in 2017.

The Trans - Atlantic Exoplanet Survey, which looks for the shadow of a planet moving between us and its star, uncovered a Jupiter - size world using just a 4 - inch telescope.

«This might be the most productive new instrument Gemini has ever had,» said Professor James Graham of the University of California, who leads the GPI science team and who will describe the GPI exoplanet survey (see below) in a talk scheduled at the AAS meeting on Thursday, January 8th.

In addition to observations by astronomers world - wide, the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey (GPIES) will look at 600 carefully selected stars over the next few years.

On December 14, 2009, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of one super-Earth and two Neptune - class planets (with at least 5, 18, and 24 Earth - masses, respectively) in moderately circular, inner orbits around 61 Virginis with periods of 4.2, 38.0, and 124.0 days (U.C. Santa Cruz news release; AAO press release; Keck press release; the Lick - Carnegie Exoplanet Survey Team's «Systemic Console;» and Vogt et al, 2009 — more below).

We are excited to connect and compare planet formation models and their predictions to exoplanet populations; we are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in planet formation, exoplanet population studies, and / or statistical assessment of exoplanet surveys,

Abstract: Open clusters have been the focus of several exoplanet surveys but only a few planets have so far been discovered.

Abstract: We report the discovery of a bright, brown dwarf companion to the star HIP 64892, imaged with VLT / SPHERE during the SHINE exoplanet survey.

The Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) and the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT) exoplanet surveys observed the host star between 2006 and 2013 using the WASP - South telescope and the KELT - South telescope at the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO).

Eclipsing Binary Science Via the Merging of Transit and Doppler Exoplanet Survey Data - A Case Study With the MARVELS Pilot Project and SuperWASP

Ecliptic fields will be observed for approximately 75 - days enabling a unique exoplanet survey which fills the gaps in duration and sensitivity between the Kepler and TESS missions, and offers pre-launch exoplanet target identification for JWST transit spectroscopy.

Early exoplanet surveys excluded systems with multiple stars.

We describe here the investigation of GSC 01944 - 02289, a very promising candidate for a transiting brown dwarf detected by the Transatlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES) network.

For sure, this idea should be revisited after future large - scale exoplanet surveys begin raking in results.

The fact that a model population represents the observed planets so well tells astronomers that all of the various exoplanet surveys are looking at different sections of the same puzzle rather than different puzzles altogether.

Derek RichardsonApril 16th CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The launch of NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Spacecraft (TESS) has been postponed by at least 48 hours, according to SpaceX.

An illustration shows the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite in front of a lava planet orbiting its host star.

Space X successfully launches TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite a.k.a. «The Planet Hunter.»

High - precisi... ▽ More We announce the discovery of the second transiting hot Jupiter discovered by the Trans - atlantic Exoplanet Survey.

The GPI Exoplanet Survey is supported by the NASA Origins Program NNX14AG80, the NSF AAG pro-gram, and grants from other institutions including the University of California Office of the President.

Lying in the constellation of Eridanus, the River, it is the first exoplanet discovered by the Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey.

Kepler's new mission, K2, is targeting several open clusters and star - forming regions around the ecliptic to... ▽ More Open clusters have been the focus of several exoplanet surveys but only a few planets have so far been discovered.

We observed the target with th... ▽ More We report the discovery of a bright, brown dwarf companion to the star HIP 64892, imaged with VLT / SPHERE during the SHINE exoplanet survey.

Laughlin is a Co-I on the Lick Carnegie Exoplanet Survey, and along with team members Steve Vogt, Paul Butler, Eugenio Rivera and Stefano Meschiari, is using the Keck, Magellan and AAT telescopes to discover and characterize planets with the Doppler radial velocity technique.

When it runs out of fuel to do its work, a new and more powerful NASA space telescope, called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), should be ready to pick up the work of locating Earthlike planets.

Delayed multiple times from March, the company's mission to launch the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (or TESS) for NASA is now ready.

The company, on Apr. 16, will launch NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (known as TESS) on a Falcon 9 rocket into high Earth elliptical orbit.

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is slated to head into orbit on Monday night aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Propelled by a Falcon 9 rocket supplied by private firm SpaceX, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) hurtled off of a launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida and into its search for so - called «exoplanets», or worlds capable of potentially supporting life.

TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is headed to an orbit between the Earth and the moon, a journey that will take about two months.

He is also part of a NASA team that will soon be using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to find Earth - like planets orbiting in or near the habitable zone of their stars.

NASA's newest planet - hunting powerhouse, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), leaped into orbit Wednesday evening (April 18) atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

Its next exoplanet hunting telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is due to launch from Cape Canaveral on the evening of April 16.

The first of those explorers — TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — is scheduled to launch in 2017.

TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, (left) will search nearly the entire sky for alien worlds.

NIAC's Falker has long been disappointed by NASA's tepid backing of the starshade, especially given the priority the agency has attached to exoplanet surveys.

Upcoming missions, like the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite due to launch in 2018, will fill in the details of the exoplanet landscape with more observations of planets around bright stars.

Enter TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which NASA has green - lit for a 2017 launch at a cost of $ 200 million.

During its two - year mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is expected to monitor the brightness of more than 500,000 stars and catalog more than 3,000 possible transiting exoplanets, according to NASA.

And «targets» is the name of the game with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), launching in 2017 and spearheaded by MIT.

Launching in 2017, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and ESA's Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite (CHEOPS) should collectively discover and study many more worlds like 55 Cancri e circling nearby stars.

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) could find as many as 20,000 distant worlds

On 16 April, the agency plans to launch the US$ 337 - million Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which will scrutinize 200,000 nearby bright stars for signs of orbiting planets.

By the time Webb is operational, Clampin says, another NASA mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), slated for launch in 2017, will already be producing a short list of other potentially habitable rocky planets around nearby small stars.

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is designed to spot planets orbiting nearby bright stars

With new, upcoming space missions like the James Webb Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, astronomers will take exciting new steps toward characterizing and studying exoplanets like the rocky, habitable, Earth - sized planets that might be capable of supporting life.

Next year, NASA will launch its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), and the following year the European Space Agency (ESA) is expected to launch the Characterizing Exoplanets Satellite (CHEOPS).