Sentences with phrase «in tight orbits»

Both stars are in a tight orbit around their common center of mass.

The white spot at the center may be two stars locked in a tight orbit.

The collapse of the second star leaves two black holes in a tight orbit.

On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of a «super-Earth» class planet in a tight orbit around this star with with two other gas planets in outer orbits (ESO press release and Bouchy et al, 2009 — more details below).

Cordes suggests that perhaps the bursts» strange properties could be due to a neutron star in a tight orbit around a black hole, where the effects of immense gravitational forces could mask any periodicity to bursts coming from the neutron star.

Superflares - According to one recent hypothesis, unusually intense stellar flares from a sun - like («Sol - type») star could be caused by the interaction of the magnetic field of a giant planet in tight orbit with that star's own magnetic field.

Planetary candidate «b» is a «super-Earth» class planet with 7.5 Earth - masses in a tight orbit.

The second experiment aims to detect and study a radio pulsar in tight orbit about Sgr A * using radio telescopes (including the Atacama Large Millimeter Array or ALMA).

The planets circle a tiny, dim, nearby star in tight orbits all less than 2 weeks long.

Two of the black holes embrace in a tight orbit, spinning out jets of gas, while the third waits off to the side.

Based on the numbers of such planets that astronomers have found in tight orbits around stars nearer to our sun, Gilliland's colleagues expected to see 15 or 20 planets in 47 Tucanae.

At the meeting, he argued that brown dwarfs in tight orbits get devoured by their sunlike parent stars.

General relativity predicts that two massive objects in a tight orbit around each other will spiral in, slowly at first and then faster until they merge, distorting space - time in perturbations that ripple in all directions.

The main finding is that WASP - 18b, a highly irradiated hot Jupiter in a tight orbit around a hot F - type star, is «wrapped in a smothering stratosphere loaded with carbon monoxide and devoid of water».

Astronomers from Wesleyan University have detected the shock waves produced by a high - speed «hot Jupiter» exoplanet caught in a tight orbit around its host star.

The TRAPPIST - 1 exoplanets are packed in a tight orbit around their dim parent star and are so close to one another that all of their orbits would fit inside Mercury's orbit of the sun.

According to one recent hypothesis, unusually intense stellar flares from a sun - like («Sol - type») star could be caused by the interaction of the magnetic field of a giant planet in tight orbit with that star's own magnetic field (Rubenstein and Schaefer, 2000).

PULSAR PAIR A system of two radio beam — emitting pulsars locked in tight orbits, illustrated here, is an ideal test bed for measuring gravitational waves and other effects of general relativity.

Howard et al, 2010; Keck Larger illustrations Planetary candidate «b» is a «super-Earth» class planet with 4.15 Earth - masses in a tight orbit (more).

The leading theory that explains the creation of short GRBs, however, involves the merger of two neutron stars in a tight orbit that rapidly lose energy by emitting gravitational waves to merge after about three orbits, or in less than 8 milliseconds.

On January 6, 2010, a team of astronomers announced their discovery of a «super-Earth» class planet in a tight orbit around this star (Keck press release and Howard et al, 2010 — more details below).

Not a pretty prospect, but it's probably the eventual fate of all planets, including our own, that circle their stars in a tight orbit, astrophysicists say in the current Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

But given that the era of discovering extrasolar planets is still in its infancy, with methods that more easily detect planets if they are massive and in tight orbits, how can we be certain that the exoplanets discovered so far are typical?

But the current exoplanet catalogue primarily reflects the low - hanging fruit — extremely large planets in tight orbits, whose visible or gravitational effects on their stars are more pronounced.

The rocky world of roughly Earth's mass is in a tight orbit around its dim star, located in its «habitable zone.»

«People started to get a bit worried that COROT might not find these small planets in tight orbits, so the discovery of COROT - Exo - 7b is reassuring news,» says Rens Waters of the University of Amsterdam, who was not part of the discovery team.

Astronomers expected that such dwarf stars might host many Earth - sized planets in tight orbits, making them promising targets in the hunt for extraterrestrial life, but TRAPPIST - 1 is the first such system to be found.

Earlier this year, astronomers announced the discovery of a massive planet in tight orbit around a star so young it still features a disk of circumstellar gas and dust.

As it spins around in this tight orbit, gravity from the host star is pulling away its outer layers.

However, other predictions, such as not expecting massive planets in tight orbits, is still largely contradictory to the hypothesis and greater testing with additional discoveries will be needed.

HD 189733 A has a Jupiter - class planet in a tight orbit, where methane and water vapor have been detected by filtering the star's light through the planet's atmosphere (more).

On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of one «super-Earth» type planet in a tight orbit around this star with two other gas giant planets in outer orbits (ESO press release and Bouchy et al, 2009).

On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of three «super-Earth» class planets in tight orbits around this star (ESO press release; Barnes et al, 2009; and Mayor et al, 2008 and 2009 — more details below).

In fact, as another recent modeling study demonstrated, planets in tight orbits around red dwarf stars might be getting lashed by an insane number of high - energy solar flares, stripping their atmospheres faster than they can be replenished.

On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of three «super-Earth» class planets in tight orbits around this star (ESO press release; Barnes et al, 2009; and Mayor et al, 2009).

On January 6, 2010, a team of astronomers announced their discovery of a «super-Earth» class planet in a tight orbit around this star (Keck press release).