Sentences with phrase «in apparent magnitude»

Also, if another similar planet orbited at 0.71 AU from Alpha Centauri B (so that in turn Alpha Centauri B appeared as bright as the Sun seen from the Earth), this hypothetical planet would receive slightly more light from the more luminous Alpha Centauri A, which would shine 4.7 to 7.3 magnitudes dimmer than Alpha Centauri B (or the Sun seen from the Earth), ranging in apparent magnitude between − 19.4 (dimmest) and − 22.1 (brightest).

It ranges in brightness from about − 2.0 to 5.5 in apparent magnitude, but is not easily seen; its greatest angular separation from the Sun (greatest elongation) is only 28.3 ° (it can only be seen in twilight).

Not exact matches

[A] mong the elements to be taken into account for purposes of determining what constitutes an «extraordinary» action, which would normally be outside the apparent authority of senior executives, are the economic magnitude of the action in relation to corporate assets and earnings, the extent of risk involved, the time span of the action's effect, and the cost of reversing the action.

«We have carefully examined the early data of the Subaru Strategic Survey with HSC and found an apparent over density of stars in Virgo with very high statistical significance, showing a characteristic pattern of an ancient stellar system in the color - magnitude diagram,» he said.

Astronomers measure the brightness of objects in the sky on a scale of apparent magnitude — the brighter the object, the greater the negative number; the dimmer, the greater the positive number.

In late April, when the magnitude of the spill became apparent, InnoCentive posted an emergency - response challenge on behalf of BP, with no cash reward.

[34] Alpha Centauri B at an apparent visual magnitude of 1.33 would be twenty - first in brightness if it could be seen independently of Alpha Centauri A.

The Sun would be a yellow star of an apparent visual magnitude of +0.5 in eastern Cassiopeia, at the antipodal point of Alpha Centauri's current right ascension and declination, at 02h 39m 35s +60 ° 50 ′ (2000).

When considered among the individual brightest stars in the sky (excluding the Sun), Alpha Centauri A is the fourth brightest at an apparent visual magnitude of +0.01, being fractionally fainter than Arcturus at an apparent visual magnitude of − 0.04.

The fact that the risk elevation was apparent directly after cancer diagnosis, and decreased in magnitude over time, supports the conclusion that the risk increase may be traced to the diagnosis itself rather than the emotional or physical suffering related to progression of the cancer or to its treatment.

The brightest star in the constellation is Kornephoros, Beta Herculis, with an apparent magnitude of 2.81.

The brightest star in the constellation is Eta Piscium, with an apparent magnitude of 3.62.

With an apparent magnitude of 2.84, it is the brightest star in the Ara constellation.

In this activity, students learn how to construct a histogram for the stars in a star field, bin them according to their apparent magnitude and answer questions related to the charIn this activity, students learn how to construct a histogram for the stars in a star field, bin them according to their apparent magnitude and answer questions related to the charin a star field, bin them according to their apparent magnitude and answer questions related to the chart.

The difference between GT and Sport + is far from so wide as to render either a waste, with Aston electing to avoid things like, for example, dialing - in a magnitude of steering effort with no apparent benefit other than tiring your arms.

Therefore those short term factors are what has affected the last ten years, causing the nonsignificant apparent 10 year decrease in the magnitude of the overall 30 year warming trend.

For smaller changes, this may not be so apparent or important (a doubling of CO2 from 280 to 560 ppm may have about the same magnitude of forcing and result in the same magnitude of feedback as halving CO2 from 560 to 280 ppm).

Our model, for example, predicts the magnitude of the reduction of cooling following the eruptions and the delay in the apparent cooling evidence in the tree - ring record (i.e. in AD 1262 rather than AD 1258).

Since the Eastern Tropical Pacific is not entirely decoupled from West Wind Drift given the general pattern of circulation in the SE Pacific, the question arises is the magnitude of the observed overall energy difference in the recently observed «extended» La Nina phase of ENSO condition relative to the the «more normal» ENSO comparable in magnitude to energy associated with the apparent increase in winds and potentially currents around the Antarctic?

However, we discovered three other types of systematic bias relating to writing style, the relative prestige of journals, and the apparent rise in popularity of this field: First, the magnitude of statistical effects was significantly larger in the abstract than the main body of articles.

The first is uncertainty about the assigned magnitudes — for example, if solar influence must be scaled up to account for forcing not apparent in the total irradiance data, the solar role would increase.

We can estimate the potential magnitude of the ice mass biases by noting that if the average velocity prediction bias of ~ 5 mm / yr evident in Figure 5 is developed over ~ 2 × 10 ^ 6 km2, an area somewhat smaller than that of West Antarctica, this would cause an apparent but spurious ice loss of ~ 33 Gt yr - 1, which is a significant fraction of all published ice mass rates derived from GRACE [Velicogna and Wahr, 2006; Chen et al., 2006; Ramillien et al., 2006; Sasgen et al., 2007a].

These maps include Northern Hemisphere summer and Southern Hemisphere winter; later we separate data by hemisphere to focus on a specific season, but it is apparent that observed anomalies in units of standard deviation are of comparable magnitude in the opposite hemisphere / season.

Even though this decision had been expected for some time, the magnitude of the policy change of Sinn Fein — the largest nationalist / republican party in Northern Ireland, and second largest party in the province — was apparent for most commentators to see; Sinn Fein had reservations about the bona fides of the PSNI / court system in Northern Ireland, bordering on hostility, until comparatively recently.

Given the relatively small magnitude of the apparent effect size, if joint - custody and paternal custody children really do differ in adjustment, more studies with larger samples may be needed to detect the effect at the level of statistical significance.