Sentences with phrase «front of their host star as»
The planet's atmosphere was analyzed when it passed in front of its host star as some of its infrared light passed through the planet's atmosphere.
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Using the Hubble telescope, Jeffrey Linsky and his team at the University of Colorado in Boulder calculated the tail's composition, direction and speed by studying changes in the ultraviolet spectra of the planet's host star as the planet passed in front of it (The Astrophysical Journal, DOI: 10.1088 / 0004 - 637X / 717 / 2/1291).
These transits can be found by registering dips in light caused by the shadow of an exoplanet as it crosses in front of its host star.
As the exoplanet passes in front of its host star, as seen from Earth, some of this starlight travels through the planet's outer atmospherAs the exoplanet passes in front of its host star, as seen from Earth, some of this starlight travels through the planet's outer atmospheras seen from Earth, some of this starlight travels through the planet's outer atmosphere.
The Kepler spacecraft detects planets such as Kepler 19 b by watching them dim the light of their host star as the planets pass in front, or «transit.»
Most were detected by the wobbles they induce in their host stars or by the starlight they block as they pass in front of their stars as seen from Earth.
They were able to measure the slight decrease in brightness as the planet and its atmosphere absorbed some of the starlight while transiting (passing in front of) the host star.
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.
Kepler is back to mining the cosmos for planets by searching for eclipses, or transits, as planets orbit in front of their host stars and periodically block some of the starlight.
Planets with atmospheres are able to warp starlight in another way: while the body of the planet blocks a big chunk of starlight as it crosses in front of its host star, the planet's thin, enveloping atmosphere absorbs starlight at particular colors, or wavelengths.
The mega-Earth was discovered by Kepler as the space telescope observed the dimming of the host star as the planet orbited in front of it, a process known as the transit method.
The nanosatellite, known as PicSat, will observe the transit of the planet Beta Pictoris b as it passes in front of its host star.
They studied the planet when it crossed in front of its host star to observe the star's light as it was filtered through the planet's atmosphere, which provided clues on its mix of atmospheric gases.
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