Sentences with phrase «microlensing technique»
The "microlensing technique" refers to a method used in astronomy to detect small objects like planets. It involves measuring the bending of light from a distant star, caused by the gravitational pull of a closer object passing in front. Full definition
A small number of exoplanets have been detected by the gravitational microlensing technique.
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«These small planets are the best candidate for the signature we observed in this study using the microlensing technique.
WFIRST will have Hubble's sharpness to search for exoplanets using the microlensing technique.
«Results from the three main techniques of planet detection (radial velocity, transit and microlensing techniques) are rapidly converging to a common result: Not only are planets common in the galaxy, but there are more small planets than large ones,» said Stephen Kane, of NASA's Exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. «This is encouraging news for investigations into habitable planets.»
But this is not the case with the microlensing technique, which can find more distant and colder planets in long - period orbits that other methods can not detect.