Sentences with phrase «for planetary transits»

Several Detection Teams» studied CoRoT light - curves for planetary transits, also finding by coincidence a large number of EBs.

Borucki was convinced that looking for planetary transits through photometry would be simpler and cheaper.

What the search for planetary transits has in common with the observation of starquakes is the need to stare at the same stars for a long time — long enough to detect very slow vibrations or to detect at least three transits of a planet.

Both Kepler and TESS are designed to scan the sky for planetary transits, the slight dimming that occurs when a planet moves across the face of a star and temporarily blocks some of its glow.

Like Kepler and the European CoRoT satellite before it, TESS will search for planetary transits: brief dimmings of starlight, occurring at regular intervals, that betray the shadowing presence of an unseen exoplanet.

The James Webb Space Telescope will look for planetary transits and measure and record light intensity at various wavelengths, telling us much about the planet's atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Fridlund helped design COROT (for convection, rotation, and planetary transits), ESA's early entry in the race to find rocky, Earth - like planets outside our solar system.

It was looking for planetary «transits,» in which fortuitously aligned worlds cross the face of their host stars and block a fraction of the starlight seen from Earth.

The few known super-Earths whose orbits are fortuitously aligned so that they transit — pass in front of their host star — from Earth's vantage point provide a unique laboratory for planetary investigations.

It spends much of its time monitoring the light from around 60 of the nearest ultracool dwarf stars and brown dwarfs («stars» which are not quite massive enough to initiate sustained nuclear fusion in their cores), looking for evidence of planetary transits.

To pick out those signals associated with actual planets, physics graduate student Roberto Sanchis - Ojeda searched through the set of periodic light curves, looking for frequent smaller dips in the data midway between the planetary transits.

Having so many worlds in one system — and so many planets that spill their secrets via transits — may provide an exceptional test bed for theories of planetary formation and evolution.

A planetary system has to be almost perfectly planar for multiple planets to transit — Lissauer compared the astonishing flatness of the Kepler 11 system to a scaled - up vinyl LP.

The transit zone is rich in host stars for planetary systems, offering approximately 100,000 potential targets, each potentially orbited by habitable planets and moons, the scientists say — and that's just the number we can see with today's radio telescope technologies.

One method that has been discussed for years but has yet to bear fruit is known as transit timing — if a planet passes in front of its host star so that it blocks out a small but detectable fraction of the star's light, researchers can time the arrival of that partial eclipse, known as a planetary transit.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Science Programme Committee announced on Wednesday, February 19, that it has selected the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of Stars (PLATO) mission for a prospective 2024 launch utilizing a Soyuz - Fregat launch vehicle.

We compare the transit duration distribution for different subsets of Kepler planet candidates and discuss tentative trends with planetary radius and multiplicity.

For most of the candidates (85 %), the transit depths measured with Kepler are consistent with the depths measured with Spitzer as expected for planetary objects, while we find that the most discrepant measurements are due to the presence of unresolved stars that dilute the photometFor most of the candidates (85 %), the transit depths measured with Kepler are consistent with the depths measured with Spitzer as expected for planetary objects, while we find that the most discrepant measurements are due to the presence of unresolved stars that dilute the photometfor planetary objects, while we find that the most discrepant measurements are due to the presence of unresolved stars that dilute the photometry.

For Kepler - 20c and Kepler - 20d, the blend scenario is independently disfavored by the achromaticity of the transit: From Spitzer data gathered at 4.5 um, we infer a ratio of the planetary to stellar radii of 0.075 + -0.015 (Kepler - 20c) and 0.065 + -0.011 (Kepler - 20d), consistent with each of the depths measured in the Kepler optical bandpass.

Transiting planets are ideal targets for astronomers wanting to know more about planetary compositions and atmospheres.

This directly affects the determination of the oc... ▽ More The Kepler mission has to date found almost 6,000 planetary transit - like signals, utilizing three years of data for over 170,000 stars at extremely high photometric precision.

Major sources of astrophysical false positives are planetary transits and stellar eclipses on background... ▽ More The Kepler Mission was launched on March 6, 2009 to perform a photometric survey of more than 100,000 dwarf stars to search for Earth - size planets with the transit technique.

This catalog is the first to utilize artificial transit injection to evaluate the performance of our vetting procedures and quantify potential biases, which are essential for accurate computation of planetary occurrence rates.

Orbital stability provides upper limits for the masses of the transiting companions that are in the planetary regime.

Solutions for stellar parallax and proper motions await more observations, but the analysis of the astrometric residuals from a local solution in the vicinity of a star have already proved to be an important tool in the process of confirming the hypothesis of a planetary transit.

Prepare for transit observations of planets with the James Webb Space Telescope, to extend our knowledge of planetary composition to our galactic neighborhood.

Follow - up observations of planetary candidates identified by detection of transit - like events are needed both for identification of astrophysical phenomena that mimic planetary transits and for characterization of the... ▽ More The Kepler Mission was launched on March 6, 2009 to perform a photometric survey of more than 100,000 dwarf stars to search for terrestrial - size planets with the transit technique.

Follow - up observations of planetary candidates identified by detection of transit - like events are needed both for identification of astrophysical phenomena that mimic planetary transits and for characterization of the true planets and planetary systems found by Kepler.

Abstract: Based on more than four weeks of continuous high cadence photometric monitoring of several hundred members of the young cluster NGC 2264 with two space telescopes, NASA's Spitzer and the CNES CoRoT (Convection, Rotation, and planetary Transits), we provide high quality, multi-wavelength light curves for young stellar objects (YSOs) whose optical variability is dominated by short duration flux burs... ▽ More Based on more than four weeks of continuous high cadence photometric monitoring of several hundred members of the young cluster NGC 2264 with two space telescopes, NASA's Spitzer and the CNES CoRoT (Convection, Rotation, and planetary Transits), we provide high quality, multi-wavelength light curves for young stellar objects (YSOs) whose optical variability is dominated by short duration flux bursts, which we infer are due to enhanced mass accretion rates.

May 15, 2018, is a BIG day in the stars, as the year's only new moon in earthy Taurus arrives alongside another major planetary transit: Uranus exits Aries and enters the Bull's pen for the first time since 1942.