Sentences with phrase «of host stars»

On July 19, 2012, the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) announced that new data and analysis suggest that the most habitable super-Earth known on that date may be Gliese 581 g, among four other super-Earths near or within the habitable zone of their host stars.

On January 6, 2015, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society, a team of scientists (analyzing data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope) announced the discovery of eight new planets orbiting in or near the habitable zone of their host stars in Constellation Lyra.

As of February 2, 2011, NASA's Kepler Mission has identified 1,235 planetary candidates based on more than four months of observations, of which many are in 170 multi-planet systems and 54 may orbit within the habitable zone of their host stars (more).

As of August 29, 2012, the most habitable super-Earth may be Gliese 581 «g», among five other super-Earths near or within the habitable zone of their host stars (more).

In addition to 10 unconfirmed, weaker «signals,» the team was able to detect eight super-Earths around red dwarfs between 15 and 80 light - years away from our Sun, Sol, of which three orbit within the habitable zones of their host stars.

By far the most successful technique for finding and studying extrasolar planets has been the radial velocity method, which measures the motion of host stars in response to gravitational tugs by their planets.

The team also found a hint of connection between the density of these planets and the metallicity of the host stars, but this needs more confirmation.

Described as the world's largest and most advanced superconducting camera, a new instrument dubbed DARKNESS is designed to filter out the blinding light of host stars to see orbiting exoplanets in more detail than ever before.

Multi-candidate, transiting systems are frequent; 17 % of the host stars have multi-candidate systems, and 33.9 % of all the candidates are part of multi-candidate systems.

The method depends on alien worlds orbiting in front of their host stars.

With TESS, it will be possible to study the masses, sizes, densities, orbits and atmospheres of a large cohort of small planets, including a sample of rocky worlds in the habitable zones of their host stars.

There are 49 planet candidates around these stars, including 42 detected through transits and 7 revealed by precise Doppler measurements of the host stars.

We highlight new PCs that are both potentially rocky and potentially in the habitable zone of their host stars, many of which orbit solar - type stars.

It will aid scientists in finding the properties of host stars, their radii and masses, as well as in identifying the specific properties that make surrounding exoplanets habitable.

Emphasis was placed on identification of Earth - size planets orbiting in the Habitable Zone of their host stars.

Scientists from the University of Birmingham used data from NASA's Kepler telescope to observe a sample of exoplanets and the effects of their host stars to their respective atmospheres.

Kepler is back to mining the cosmos for planets by searching for eclipses, or transits, as planets orbit in front of their host stars and periodically block some of the starlight.

Just as I mistook a green sweater for gray by mistaking yellowish indoor light for white, we may end up interpreting planet spectra wrongly by misunderstanding the spectral colors of their host stars.

The study builds on input from the exoplanet community to identify the most interesting science questions that we may be able to study in the future with direct imaging missions — that is, space telescopes that can directly image exoplanets (separating their light from that of their host stars).

Like the currently operational Kepler Space Telescope, TESS will be in the lookout for exoplanets that orbit in front of their host stars, resulting in a slight dip in starlight.

Several Earth - like planets and super-Earths have been detected in the habitable zones of their host stars and more than 2300 planetary candidates have been announced.

With this method, planets that pass in front of their host stars block out some of the starlight causing the star to dim slightly for a few hours.

It was looking for planetary «transits,» in which fortuitously aligned worlds cross the face of their host stars and block a fraction of the starlight seen from Earth.

New research from the University of Washington indicates that certain shot - period binary star systems eject circumbinary planets as a consequence of the host stars» evolution.

Now, graduate students at the University of Washington have found a way to detect volcanic activity in the atmospheres of exoplanets, or those outside our solar system, when they transit, or pass in front of their host stars.

From this survey data, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as well as large ground - based observatories will be able to further characterize the targets, making it possible for the first time to study the masses, sizes, densities, orbits, and atmospheres of a large cohort of small planets, including a sample of rocky worlds in the habitable zones of their host stars.

Astronomers believe that the exoplanets, called NN Ser (ab) c and d, may have survived a cataclysmic event several million years ago, when one of their host stars swelled to 200 times the diameter of the sun, temporarily enveloping the planets.

When a planet orbits in front of its host star, it temporarily blocks a tiny portion of starlight, and these dips will be recorded by TESS» four ultrasensitive cameras.

[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.

To find an exoplanet's atmosphere, a telescope would record the spectral signature when the planet transits in front of its host star and again when it's behind.

Kepler wouldn't detect an entire solar system identical to ours, but the telescope could find individual planets passing in front of their host star.

These transits can be found by registering dips in light caused by the shadow of an exoplanet as it crosses in front of its host star.

Unlike the four previously known planets in the same system and hundreds of others found throughout the Milky Way galaxy, Gliese 581 g sits in the middle of its host star's habitable zone, where temperatures are in the right range for liquid water to exist.

Bellerophon The nickname for 51 Pegasi b, the first planet found around a sunlike star, named after the Greek mythological hero who rode the winged horse Pegasus, which by no coincidence is the constellation of the host star.

If a planet moves in front of its host star, it will cause a dip in brightness.

But the behavior of our host star is not as predictable as all that — the most recent solar minimum of late 2008 was surprisingly quiet and prolonged.

As the exoplanet passes in front of its host star, as seen from Earth, some of this starlight travels through the planet's outer atmosphere.

The Kepler spacecraft detects planets such as Kepler 19 b by watching them dim the light of their host star as the planets pass in front, or «transit.»

A newfound «super-Earth» just 20 light - years away appears to reside in the habitable zone of its host star

The few known super-Earths whose orbits are fortuitously aligned so that they transit — pass in front of their host star — from Earth's vantage point provide a unique laboratory for planetary investigations.

But the behavior of our host star is not as predictable as all that — the most recent solar minimum was surprisingly deep and long, finally bottoming out around late 2008 or so.

GJ 1214 b transits every 38 hours or so, passing in front of its host star and revealing itself by shading the star's light for about an hour.

«Brown dwarfs are far easier to study than planets, because they aren't overwhelmed by the brightness of a host star,» Faherty explained.

At the moment, most planets are discovered when we see their shadows dance in front of their host star — a technique that limits detections because it requires the planet to pass through the exact line of sight between its star and Earth.

The Gemini «speckle» data directly imaged the system to within about 400 million miles (about 4 AU, approximately equal to the orbit of Jupiter in our solar system) of the host star and confirmed that there were no other stellar size objects orbiting within this radius from the star.

These transits can be thought of as tiny eclipses of the host star by a planet (or planets) as seen from Earth.

The Kepler 11 system is unique for several reasons: For starters, it is among the largest collections of worlds known outside our own solar system, and all six of the planets Kepler has found there are aligned so that their orbits carry them across the face of their host star from Kepler's vantage point.

By analyzing the movement of its host star, Kepler 78, the scientists determined that the exoplanet is about 1.7 times as massive as Earth.

Along with Alycia Weinberger and Ian Thompson, Alan Boss has been running the Carnegie Astrometric Planet Search (CAPS) program, which searches for extrasolar planets by the astrometric method, where the planet's presence is detected indirectly through the wobble of the host star around the center of mass of the system.

One method that has been discussed for years but has yet to bear fruit is known as transit timing — if a planet passes in front of its host star so that it blocks out a small but detectable fraction of the star's light, researchers can time the arrival of that partial eclipse, known as a planetary transit.