Sentences with phrase «faint companion»

A search for faint companions using the Hubble Space Telescope found no supporting evidence for a large Jupiter or brown dwarf sized object (Schroeder et al, 2000).

The capability of the IFS to faithfully retrieve the spectra of the detected faint companions was also considered. -RCB-

A faint star with an even fainter companion came close enough some 70,000 years ago to perturb distant comets in our solar system

Astronomers have scrutinized about 100 nebulas for signs of a small, faint companion amid the glare of the bright core, but so far, in some five out of six cases they've come up empty.

This image shows the closest stellar system to the Sun, the bright double star Alpha Centauri AB and its distant and faint companion Proxima Centauri.

Star C (protruding yellow spot at upper right) was confirmed as Gl 105 A's fainter companion with Palomar's 60» telescope (more).

HD 19467 B, a T - dwarf, is a very faint companion to a nearby Sun - like star, more than 100,000 times as dim as its host.

A search for faint companions using the Hubble Space Telescope found no supporting evidence for a large Jupiter or brown dwarf sized object, although the observed positions of Sirius AB — Gl 244 AB — differed from published orbital elements (Schroeder et al, 2000).

Finally, we found that the reproducibility of the spectra of the detected faint companions is greatly improved when angular differential imaging is applied in addition to the spectral deconvolution.

Moreover, a recent search for faint companions using the Hubble Space Telescope found no supporting evidence for a large Jupiter or brown dwarf sized object (Schroeder et al, 2000).

Discovered to be a faint companion of Stars Aab by Ragnar Furuhjelm, Capella C is a red dwarf star of spectral and luminosity type M1 V.

This example demonstrates some of the challenges in determining accurate age estimates and identifications of faint companions.

The diminutive and faint companions are also apparently detected on Hubble images of Pluto from 2002, but this coming February follow - up observations are planned in an effort to confirm the discovery of the new moons.

Although there were later observations of flares, the faint companion did not appear on many other photographic plates, and it was presumed to be a rapid variable such as a flare star and given the variable star designation CF Ursae Majoris sometime after 1980.

As a highly evolved and relatively cool orange - red giant, single star, Pollux is not much like its «twin» star Castor, which is actually composed of three sets of binary stars (as many as four bluish - white, main sequence stars with two fainter companions).