Sentences with phrase «known exoplanet host»

Interestingly, the last two are known exoplanet host stars.

Not exact matches

[1] Most of the exoplanets currently known were discovered using indirect techniques — such as radial velocity variations of the host star, or the dip in brightness of the star caused by a transiting exoplanet.

The smallest, coolest exoplanet known to host water is roughly the size of Neptune, astronomers report in the Sept. 25 Nature.

KELT - 3b is the third transiting exoplanet discovered by the KELT survey, and is orbiting one of the 20 brightest known transiting planet host stars, making it a promising candidate for detailed characterization studies.

For instance, to know the size of the exoplanet, one must know the size of its host star.

Since Earth is the only planet known to play host to life, Sun - like stars and their exoplanets are considered promising targets in the search for E.T.. However, simply discovering a rocky Earth - sized world orbiting a Sun - like star does not guarantee the existence of life.

The diversity of masses, sizes and orbits of known exoplanets has prompted recent efforts in the scientific community to explore the broad range of interactions that can exist between planets and their host stars.

Red dwarfs are known to play host to small rocky exoplanets, a fact that makes these locations very interesting in the search for habitable «Earth - like» exoplanets.

This is the third brightest confirmed planet host star in the Kepler field and one of the brightest hosts of all currently known transiting exoplanets.

Whilst all the exoplanets discovered around the red dwarf, known as TRAPPIST - 1, are capable of hosting liquid water on their surfaces, three are in orbit in what is known as a star's habitable zone, making them an attractive prospect for scientists searching for life outside of our solar system.