Sentences with phrase «giant exoplanets in»

GPI will produce the first comprehensive survey of giant exoplanets in the region where giant planets exist in our solar system — from 5 to 40 astronomical units radius.

«The large distance that separates it from its star allows it to be studied in depth with a variety of instruments, which will provide a better understanding of giant exoplanets in general.»

When researchers observed star systems containing debris disks with giant exoplanets in distant orbits, they noted that the star systems had similar dual dust disks analogous to the Solar System's two zones — the asteroid belt (between Mars and Jupiter) and the Kuiper Belt (beyond the orbit of Neptune).

There may be a large number of undetected bright, substellar objects similar to giant exoplanets in our own solar neighborhood, according to new work from a team led by Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné and including researchers from the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) at Université de Montréal.

Not exact matches

In the 1990s the first discovered exoplanets (planets orbiting other stars) were Jupiter - like giants, betrayed by the slight gravitational wobbles in the motion of their parent starIn the 1990s the first discovered exoplanets (planets orbiting other stars) were Jupiter - like giants, betrayed by the slight gravitational wobbles in the motion of their parent starin the motion of their parent stars.

Our solar system is a case in point: the latest exoplanet research suggests that its orderly arrangement of planets is exceptionally rare, with rocky planets closer to the sun and gas giants farther out.

«It is likely the banded structure and large atmospheric waves we found in brown dwarfs will also be common in giant exoplanets,» Apai said.

Rings have also been spied around Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, and in 2012, scientists spotted an exoplanet with giant rings (SN: 3/7/15, p. 5).

To date, all exoplanets discovered in orbit around double stars are gas giants, similar to Jupiter, and are thought to form in the icy regions of their systems.

Signs of water in a gas giant exoplanet's atmosphere suggest the world formed much closer to its star than gas giants in our solar system did

Astronomers have for the first time detected ingredients in the atmosphere of a super-Earth, an exotic type of exoplanet of which there is no parallel in our solar system: It's larger than our home but not as large as a gas giant.

As a result, the exoplanet may have had a different origin story than ice giants in our solar system.

OBSERVATIONS of a Neptune - like exoplanet show that it has a watery atmosphere — suggesting it formed closer to its star than did the gas giants in our solar system.

Both qualify as quite small in the field of known exoplanets, in which most of the hundreds of worlds that have been discovered are giants larger than Jupiter.

So, based on our results we would expect that most giant exoplanets will have zonal circulation; we should expect that their atmospheres are not homogeneous, structureless, but in fact should display large brightness variations in the infrared.

The planetary bodies such as these asteroids that fall into and pollute this dying star — which, in its heyday, was three times heavier than our sun — also reveal that giant exoplanets probably still exist in this remote and withering system.

Water is not only a key ingredient in supporting life, it's also a major clue as to how planets form, and NASA has found a lot of the stuff in the atmosphere of a giant exoplanet called Wasp - 39b.

According to a NASA announcement on Friday, «TESS will use an array of telescopes to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets ranging from Earth - sized to gas giants, in orbit around the nearest and brightest stars in the sky.

I'm still holding out for the news that reads: «Second Earth Found» -[this exoplanet] will have all the right ingredients: orbit its star inside the habitable zone, spectroscopic analysis will reveal a nitrogen - rich atmosphere, evidence of water, roughly the same mass as our planet and it will belong in a system with a couple of gas giants shepherding the outer system.

Tidal interactions between close - in, gas - giant exoplanets and their host star should cause the orbits of the planets to decay.

We underscore the significance of long - term ground - based monitoring of hot stars and space - based targeting of hot stars with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to search for inflated giants in longer - period orbits.

Abstract: Atmospheric temperature and planetary gravity are thought to be the main parameters affecting cloud formation in giant exoplanet atmospheres.

I will discuss in particular the constraints on the distributions of wide giant exoplanets placed by the current generation of direct imaging surveys.

Among the few observable chemical properties of exoplanets is the carbon - to - oxygen ratio (C / O) in giant planets.

Clouds play a critical role in the physics and chemistry of brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets.

The difference in the spectra supports the hypothesis that giant exoplanet atmospheres carry traces of their formation history.

We present the discovery of Kepler - 421b, a Uranus - sized exoplanet transiting a G9 / K0 dw... ▽ More In most theories of planet formation, the snow - line represents a boundary between the emergence of the interior rocky planets and the exterior ice giants.

The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at MKI, will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in orbit around the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.

SPHERE opens new horizons in the study of young brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets thanks to high - contrast imaging capabilities at optical and near - infrared wavelengths, as well as high signal - to - noise spectroscopy in the near - infrared from low (R ~ 30 - 50) to medium resolutions (R ~ 350).

The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI) will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in orbit around the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.

It will also be possible to study details of exotic objects in our Solar System, such as volcanoes on Io, and the atmospheres of giant exoplanets.

Exoplanets come in all sizes, from rocky worlds smaller than Earth to massive bloated gas giants many times the size of Jupiter.

This is the first time titanium oxide has been detected in the atmosphere of a gas giant exoplanet, and the finding should help astronomers develop a better understanding of the composition and processes going on in the atmospheres of these distant worlds.

Again the difficulty lies in detecting small exoplanets at far orbits, since giant exoplanets and close orbits exert much larger gravitational pulls over the star and create easily visible oscillations.

1:20 PM Liu - Abundance Studies of Stellar Hosts of Terrestrial Planets 1:40 PM Kitiashvili - 3D Realistic Modeling of Stellar Convection as a Tool to Study Effects of Stellar Jitter on RV Measurements 2:00 PM Crossfield - Planet Densities (invited) 2:30 PM Break and Poster Viewing 3:00 PM Guyon - Coronagraphs for Planet Detection (invited) 3:30 PM Martins - Exoplanet Reflections in the era of Giant Telescopes 3:50 PM Close - Direct Detection of Exoplanets with GMT AO: A proof of concept design for a GMT Phase A ExAO planet imager 4:10 PM Direct Imaging Discussion - Led by Jared Males 5:20 PM End of meeting for the day 5:30 PM Buses depart for Monterey Bay Aquarium 6:00 PM Conference Banquet Wednesday, September 28 7:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00 AM Lewis - JWST - ELT Synergy (invited) 9:30 AM Greene - Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres with JWST 9:50 AM Morzinski - Breaking degeneracies in understanding fundamental exoplanet properties with ELTs 10:10 AM Break and Poster Viewing 11:00 AM Cotton - Detecting Clouds in Hot Jupiters with Linear Polarisation 11:20 AM Boss Exoplanet Reflections in the era of Giant Telescopes 3:50 PM Close - Direct Detection of Exoplanets with GMT AO: A proof of concept design for a GMT Phase A ExAO planet imager 4:10 PM Direct Imaging Discussion - Led by Jared Males 5:20 PM End of meeting for the day 5:30 PM Buses depart for Monterey Bay Aquarium 6:00 PM Conference Banquet Wednesday, September 28 7:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00 AM Lewis - JWST - ELT Synergy (invited) 9:30 AM Greene - Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres with JWST 9:50 AM Morzinski - Breaking degeneracies in understanding fundamental exoplanet properties with ELTs 10:10 AM Break and Poster Viewing 11:00 AM Cotton - Detecting Clouds in Hot Jupiters with Linear Polarisation 11:20 AM Boss exoplanet atmospheres with JWST 9:50 AM Morzinski - Breaking degeneracies in understanding fundamental exoplanet properties with ELTs 10:10 AM Break and Poster Viewing 11:00 AM Cotton - Detecting Clouds in Hot Jupiters with Linear Polarisation 11:20 AM Boss exoplanet properties with ELTs 10:10 AM Break and Poster Viewing 11:00 AM Cotton - Detecting Clouds in Hot Jupiters with Linear Polarisation 11:20 AM Boss - Summary

NASA researchers say they have passed a major milestone in their quest to mature more powerful tools for detecting the atmospheres of giant exoplanets.