Sentences with phrase «of giant exoplanets»

GPI will produce the first comprehensive survey of giant exoplanets in the region where giant planets exist in our solar system — from 5 to 40 astronomical units radius.

NASA researchers say they have passed a major milestone in their quest to mature more powerful tools for detecting the atmospheres of giant exoplanets.

«The large distance that separates it from its star allows it to be studied in depth with a variety of instruments, which will provide a better understanding of giant exoplanets in general.»

It will also be possible to study details of exotic objects in our Solar System, such as volcanoes on Io, and the atmospheres of giant exoplanets.

Observations of star systems by an international group of researchers suggest that debris disks around stars may be indicative of giant exoplanets.

Known brown dwarfs have temperatures between 250 K to about 2,500 K — completely overlapping with the temperatures of giant exoplanets; the compositions of many brown dwarfs are likely very similar or identical to many of the giant exoplanets.

Heather Knutson, an astronomer at California Institute of Technology who pioneered Spitzer's thermal mapping of giant exoplanets, is similarly skeptical.

Water is not only a key ingredient in supporting life, it's also a major clue as to how planets form, and NASA has found a lot of the stuff in the atmosphere of a giant exoplanet called Wasp - 39b.

Not exact matches

In the 1990s the first discovered exoplanets (planets orbiting other stars) were Jupiter - like giants, betrayed by the slight gravitational wobbles in the motion of their parent stars.

Our solar system is a case in point: the latest exoplanet research suggests that its orderly arrangement of planets is exceptionally rare, with rocky planets closer to the sun and gas giants farther out.

The atmospheric composition of WASP - 39b hints that the formation processes of exoplanets can be very different from those of our own Solar System giants.

No telescope yet exists that can take a picture of even a giant exoplanet; astronomers compare the task to taking a picture of a firefly next to a searchlight thousands of miles away.

Hot, rocky exoplanets are the scorched cores of former gas giants.

The first exoplanets found were gas giants orbiting close to their stars — a study suggests they could be built from collisions of several smaller planets

Previous sky surveys with ground - based telescopes have mainly detected giant planets, while NASA's Kepler observatory has uncovered the existence of many smaller exoplanets, but their host stars are faint and difficult to study.

TESS, which NASA recently selected as a new Explorer mission, will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform the all - sky survey of a broad range of exoplanets, ranging from Earth - size to gas giants.

NESSI will focus on about 100 exoplanets, ranging from massive versions of Earth, called super-Earths, to scorching gas giants known as «hot Jupiters.»

Constraints on the magnetic field strength of HAT - P - 7 b and other hot giant exoplanets.

To date, all exoplanets discovered in orbit around double stars are gas giants, similar to Jupiter, and are thought to form in the icy regions of their systems.

Such an arrangement can only be explained, they say, by a giant exoplanet (just left of the star)-- which ALMA can't see — sweeping up all the material close to the star but pushing dust farther out still.

Hu developed a method of studying exoplanet atmospheres and surfaces, and had previously only applied it to sizzling, giant gaseous planets called hot Jupiters.

Signs of water in a gas giant exoplanet's atmosphere suggest the world formed much closer to its star than gas giants in our solar system did

Most of the first exoplanets found were hot Jupiters: gas giants that orbit close to their stars.

Astronomers have for the first time detected ingredients in the atmosphere of a super-Earth, an exotic type of exoplanet of which there is no parallel in our solar system: It's larger than our home but not as large as a gas giant.

There may be a large number of undetected bright, substellar objects similar to giant exoplanets in our own solar neighborhood, according to new work from a team led by Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné and including researchers from the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) at Université deexoplanets in our own solar neighborhood, according to new work from a team led by Carnegie's Jonathan Gagné and including researchers from the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) at Université deExoplanets (iREx) at Université de Montréal.

OBSERVATIONS of a Neptune - like exoplanet show that it has a watery atmosphere — suggesting it formed closer to its star than did the gas giants in our solar system.

Many of the exoplanets we see are Jupiter - like gas giants orbiting close to their star.

Until these findings by Dr Southworth's team, the only previous detections of exoplanet atmospheres all involved gas giants reminiscent of a high - temperature Jupiter.

Both qualify as quite small in the field of known exoplanets, in which most of the hundreds of worlds that have been discovered are giants larger than Jupiter.

The mission will monitor at least 200,000 stars for signs of exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized rocky worlds to huge gas giant planets.

This year's new haul of planets included little rocky LHS 1140b, Ross 128 b and its unusually calm star, and even a giant exoplanet tucked at the heart of our own galaxy.

One of our next steps is to expand this study to directly imaged giant exoplanets, which will allow us to explore how cloud properties and dynamics change with the mass of the objects — this can not be done well with the sensitive, but low - resolution Spitzer Space Telescope.

What's more, it is almost certain that the brown dwarf population contains a large number of ejected giant planets — bona fide exoplanets that were booted from their natal systems by more massive siblings.

According to a NASA announcement on Friday, «TESS will use an array of telescopes to perform an all - sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets ranging from Earth - sized to gas giants, in orbit around the nearest and brightest stars in the sky.

I'm still holding out for the news that reads: «Second Earth Found» -[this exoplanet] will have all the right ingredients: orbit its star inside the habitable zone, spectroscopic analysis will reveal a nitrogen - rich atmosphere, evidence of water, roughly the same mass as our planet and it will belong in a system with a couple of gas giants shepherding the outer system.

With the unprecedented access of VLT FORS2 to the abundance of fainter systems that HST can not observe we measure the optical transmission spectra of twenty exoplanets from gas giants down to Earth - mass, cooler worlds.

Before Kepler, plenty of Jupiter - sized worlds could be seen, but with its precision eye for spotting the tiniest of fluctuations of star brightness (as a small exoplanet passes between Kepler and the star), the space telescope has found that smaller exoplanets outnumber the larger gas giants.

Tidal interactions between close - in, gas - giant exoplanets and their host star should cause the orbits of the planets to decay.

We analyze a sample of 1194 stars drawn from the California Planet Survey targets to determine the empirical functional form describing the likelihood of a star harboring a giant plane... ▽ More Correlations between stellar properties and the occurrence rate of exoplanets can be used to inform the target selection of future planet search efforts and provide valuable clues about the planet formation process.

This planet is one of the most inflated of all known transiting exoplanets, making it one of the few members of a class of extremely low density, highly - irradiated gas giants.

FLASH - Origins talk: «From gas - giants to rocky exo - Earths: atmospheric characterization of transiting exoplanets» by Nikolay Nikolov, postdoc, University of Exeter

Young stars that are from a few million to one billion years old and appear to have a disk of dust and debris orbiting them may be the best place to look for giant exoplanets.

We underscore the significance of long - term ground - based monitoring of hot stars and space - based targeting of hot stars with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to search for inflated giants in longer - period orbits.

Abstract: This paper reports the discovery and characterization of the transiting hot giant exoplanet Kepler - 17b.

I will discuss in particular the constraints on the distributions of wide giant exoplanets placed by the current generation of direct imaging surveys.

When researchers observed star systems containing debris disks with giant exoplanets in distant orbits, they noted that the star systems had similar dual dust disks analogous to the Solar System's two zones — the asteroid belt (between Mars and Jupiter) and the Kuiper Belt (beyond the orbit of Neptune).

Among the few observable chemical properties of exoplanets is the carbon - to - oxygen ratio (C / O) in giant planets.

Clouds play a critical role in the physics and chemistry of brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets.

The difference in the spectra supports the hypothesis that giant exoplanet atmospheres carry traces of their formation history.

The smallest exoplanet hitherto discovered has... ▽ More Since the discovery of the first extrasolar giant planets around Sun - like stars, evolving observational capabilities have brought us closer to the detection of true Earth analogues.