Sentences with phrase «on debris disks»

We gave an update on the GPI Exoplanet Survey, presented posters on debris disks and exoplanets imaged by GPI, and even had a press conference on recent GPI results!

Later photographs revealed an edge - on debris disk around the southern star Beta Pictoris.

An edge - on debris disk was photographed around the southern star Beta Pictoris.

EOS talk: «Extreme - AO Imaging of Disks around Intermediate - Mass Stars: Discovery of a Two - Armed Spiral Disk and a Warped Edge - on Debris Disk» by Kevin Wagner, grad student, Steward Observatory

Not exact matches

The relatively low speed — between 6 and 7 meters per second — suggests the process must have taken place over thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years before the asteroid was formed, when a gravitationally stable cloud of debris spun in the disk of material that would go on to build the solar system.

«Previous spectroscopic measurements of debris disks revealed that certain ones had an unexpected chemical signature suggesting they had an overabundance of carbon monoxide gas,» said Jesse Lieman - Sifry, lead author on a paper published in Astrophysical Journal.

Debris disks are found around stars that have shed their dusty, gas - filled protoplanetary disks and gone on to form planets, asteroids, comets, and other planetesimals.

Rieke's research team recently discovered that many extreme young debris disks are variable on yearly, or even monthly, timescales.

He has done research on a number of other topics besides debris disks.

Study of collisional processes there will have impact on the interpretation of the much more distant (but numerous) main - sequence debris disks, about which much less is known.

According to the simulations, if the moons had formed out of a debris disk thrown out in the aftermath of such a collision, they would be predominantly composed of material that had originated on Mars.

My research is in celestial mechanics, including the architecture of extra-solar planetary systems, debris disks around stars, the Kuiper belt and asteroid belt, orbital resonances, and meteoritic bombardment on planets in the solar system.

In particular, I will focus on planets on eccentric orbits, not only because typical exoplanetary systems have been found to contain these, but also because their interactions with debris disks theoretically facilitates the transport of icy bodies within the habitable zone of planetary systems.

This talk will focus on our new discoveries with VLT / SPHERE of a beautiful two - armed spiral disk with a large gap (the third known of its kind) and an edge - on warped debris disk — similar to the warp induced by the planet in Beta Pic.

The paper suggests that when astronomers are looking for these giant exoplanets, they should concentrate on looking at young star systems that have debris disks around them.

Terrestrial planets, on the other h... ▽ More Debris disks are usually detected through the infrared excess over the photospheric level of their host star.

On May 18, 2010, a team of astronomers submitted a preprint revealing the presence of a cold, «eccentric» dust ring or debris disk around Zeta2 Reticuli.