Sentences with phrase «other astronomers use»

After Jenkins and his colleagues have weeded out sunspots and other planet poseurs from the data, Marcy and other astronomers use the Doppler wobble method with terrestrial telescopes to verify that the remaining planet candidates, or «objects of interest,» are indeed planets.

However, later observations by other astronomers using interferometric astrometry and recent radial velocity data found no evidence to support the existence of a companion greater than 0.8 Jupiter mass with an orbital period around Proxima Centauri of between one and about 2.7 years (Benedict et al, 1999).

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Perhaps in the future, astronomers will use this and other new highly detailed images to understand what triggered one of the brightest outbursts in the Milky Way's history.

Astronomers have used SPHERE to obtain many other impressive images, as well as for other studies including the interaction of a planet with a disc, the orbital motions within a system, and the time evolution of a disc.

He leads a team of astronomers who have been using the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) to look for failed supernovae in other galaxies.

As instruments improved, astronomers detected smaller wobbles caused by smaller planets, until in 2004 a team using the Hobby - Eberly Telescope was arguably the first to find a super-Earth, 55 Cancri e. Others were revealed when their gravity briefly magnified the light of a distant star, a process known as gravitational lensing.

Astronomers can watch neutron stars orbit each other for many years using more traditional observatories, and all the while, energy leaks away from the system in the form of invisible gravitational waves.

Astronomers hope to analyze the atmospheres of these and other super-Earths by examining the starlight filtering through them, perhaps using the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2013.

Using a jet of radio waves, astronomers have begun to map the other side of the Milky Way.

But if two exoplanets orbiting the same star have a strong gravitational influence on each other, the time of transit is not periodic, and astronomers can use this information to more accurately calculate their masses.

Just as radio channels close to each other in frequency can bleed into one another, creating static, so too can radio interference from different technologies bleed into the channels astronomers use to observe.

«Zwicky began referring to Baade as «the Nazi»... He regarded most of the other Palomar astronomers as fools, and Walter Baade as a cretin... He would swear torrentially at night assistants, using scientific terms laced with obscenities... He referred to Baade and the others as spherical bastards — «They are spherical,» he said, «because they are bastards every way I look at them.»

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have studied one particular explosion that may provide clues to the dynamics of other, much larger stellar eruptions.

As the most abundant element in the Universe and the raw fuel for creating stars, hydrogen is used by radio astronomers to detect and understand the makeup of other galaxies.

Morse and other astronomers have used computer models of shock waves to make detailed predictions of the diagnostics.

With them it will peer through the creaking, dusty cosmic eons to study much that astronomers using Hubble and other telescopes have barely begun to glimpse: the universe's very first galaxies, nascent stars and planets in mid-creation in nebulous wombs, the atmospheres of worlds both within and beyond our solar system.

For nearly 2 centuries, astronomers have been using a trigonometric device called a parallax to measure the distances between Earth and other objects in our region of the Milky Way galaxy.

To catalog it, the planet - finding astronomers added a lowercase b, after other classification schemes that deem the star itself A. Astronomers used the «wobble» method to detect 51 Pegasi b, in which the planet's gravitational tug alters its stastronomers added a lowercase b, after other classification schemes that deem the star itself A. Astronomers used the «wobble» method to detect 51 Pegasi b, in which the planet's gravitational tug alters its stAstronomers used the «wobble» method to detect 51 Pegasi b, in which the planet's gravitational tug alters its star's light.

On the other hand, astronomers today make use of gravitational lensing all the time to study the universe.

Using a new computer technique that accounts for the planets» gravitational tugs on each other, astronomer Simon Grimm of the University of Bern in Switzerland and his colleagues calculated the seven planets» masses with five to eight times better precision than before.

Using data obtained by other astronomers, the team created computer models of what globular clusters should look like in the presence and absence of dark matter halos.

Other gravitational wave astronomers are now using the model in their own investigations as well.

Astronomers using the TRAPPIST - South telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory, the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal and the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, as well as other telescopes around the world [1], have now confirmed the existence of at least seven small planets orbiting the cool red dwarf star TRAPPIST - 1 [2].

So Marengo and two other astronomers decided to take a close look at the star using data taken with the Infrared Array Camera of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

Using the position of celestial bodies and earthbound landmarks whose latitude was known, astronomer Jean - Dominique Cassini and his son Jacques calculated in the early 18th century that the length of a degree of latitude seemed to increase slightly as they traveled south, indicating that Earth was pulled in at the equator, or as others quipped, like a «potbellied man wearing a tight belt.»

Using other lensed galaxies within the cluster and combining them with the discovery of the Einstein Cross event in 2014, astronomers were able to make precise predictions for the reappearance of the supernova.

But the gravitationally lensed galaxy and other objects found at this early epoch are too far away and too dim for astronomers to use spectroscopy.

Other astronomers have claimed to find galaxies at even greater distances — at redshifts of 10 and 9, but those findings are still ambiguous, says Joshua Bloom of the University of California, Berkeley, who observed the afterglow using the Gemini South telescope in Chile.

Astronomers also use NIRC2 to map surface features of solar system bodies, detect planets orbiting other stars, and study detailed morphology of distant galaxies.

Use of these telescopes was generally restricted to the community they served, even excluding other astronomers within the same nation.

After 11 years of observations, two additional outer planets were discovered with two other teams of astronomers at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the High Altitude Observatory using the Whipple Observatory (1999 press release).

It's so consistent that Type Ia supernovae are also called standard candles: Once astronomers find one in a region of space, they can use it as a baseline with which to compare other objects around it.

This same combination was also used to find other super-Earths orbiting nearby stars in planet searches led by UH astronomer Andrew Howard and UC Berkeley Professor Geoffrey Marcy.

Within his search for nebulae, Charles Messier both undertook own scans, leading to 19 original Messier discoveries during that year, and used all the catalogs compiled previously by other astronomers he had access to: Edmond Halley's list of 6 objects, the catalog of William Derham, who chiefly had extracted from Hevelius» star catalog, Prodomus Astronomiae, which was available in a French translation by Pierre de Maupertuis, and Nicolas Lacaille's Catalog of Southern «Nebulae» of 1755, as well as lists of Maraldi and Le Gentil, with some references to (but very probably not the list of) De Chéseaux, probably from Le Gentil.

The package is a mainstay and a daily tool for most of the world's radio astronomers, and also has been used by scientists in such other fields as fluid - dynamics simulation and medical imaging.

Earlier this year, scientists using the European Southern Observatory (ESO) 3.6 m Telescope in Chile discovered the smallest exoplanet - as astronomers call planets that orbit a star other than the Sun - yet.

Astronomers made the latest discovery by using data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3 on board Hubble, as well as other ground - based telescopes including European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope.

The proven segmented mirror design of the Keck Observatory telescopes is now the preferred solution for all other large telescopes, including the next space telescope, JWST, and the even larger ground ‑ based telescopes astronomers will use to continue exploring our Universe.

That enormous pent up demand for answers set Keck Observatory's role from day one: Astronomers used the telescopes to glean answers to hypotheses formed from other observations.

Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other similar facilities to discover a new rotating neutron star, which is claimed to be one of the most extreme pulsars ever detected as its spin period is thousands of times longer than any such objects found so far.

MAUNA KEA, HAWAII — An international team of astronomers has obtained the best view yet of a collision that took place between two galaxies when the universe was only half its current age using the W. M. Keck Observatory and many other telescopes on the ground and in space.

Astronomers have also used simulations of the climates of other extrasolar planets such as Kepler - 452b to...

Astronomers had done their work from afar using large telescopes, and geologists had done theirs up close with other tools.

By tracking the motion of stars orbiting close to Sgr A *, a team of German and Czech astronomers have analyzed 20 years of observations made by the VLT and other telescopes using a new technique that pinpoints the positions of these stars.

Kawaler and other astronomers will also use TESS data to study stars.

We will show you around the two websites we will be using, and the forum where you will post homework, and have discussions with each other and the PSC astronomers.

On June 29, 2011, a team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and other telescopes around the world announced their detection of ULAS J1120 +0641, which is the oldest known quasar measured thus far with a redshift of z ~ 7.08 and which indicates that its light has taken around 12.9 billion years to reach Earth from just 770 million years after the Big Bang (ESO science release).

Through the ALMA Regional Centers, it is expected that ALMA will be used not only by astronomers but also by scientists of other fields.

Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array radio telescope to make the first - ever time - lapse movie showing details of gas motions around a star other than our Sun.

Astronomers would need to use other instruments in Hubble's toolkit, called spectrographs.