Sentences with phrase «mimic planetary transits»
Follow - up observations of planetary candidates identified by detection of transit - like events are needed both for identification of astrophysical phenomena that mimic planetary transits and for characterization of the true planets and planetary systems found by Kepler.
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Follow - up observations of planetary candidates identified by detection of transit - like events are needed both for identification of astrophysical phenomena that mimic planetary transits and for characterization of the... ▽ More The Kepler Mission was launched on March 6, 2009 to perform a photometric survey of more than 100,000 dwarf stars to search for terrestrial - size planets with the transit technique.
Not exact matches
Giant transiting exoplanets are easily mimicked by false positives, so spectroscopic follow - up observations are needed to establish the planetary nature of the transit detections, and easily reveal blended multiple stellar systems.