Sentences with phrase «phase curve»

The dynamical state can be inferred from observations of orbital period and spectral type of the host star as well as from comparing the morphology of the thermal emission phase curves of synchronously rotating planets.

A hard target Not everyone is convinced that 55 Cancri e is a lava world, or that the planet's phase curve from Spitzer is even valid at all.

Such phase curves will be potentially useful tools for characterizing planets with the next generation of space telescopes.

We also report the detection of secondary eclipses and phase curve variations for K2 - 141b.

In a pioneering study published in 2012 we used the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes simultaneously to measure rotational phase curves (think vertical scans) of the surface brightness of an ultracool brown dwarf.

Using 80 hours of observing time on NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, a team led by Brice - Olivier Demory of the University of Cambridge has crudely mapped the planet's thermal «phase curve» — variations in its brightness as it circles its star.

«It's tremendously exciting that we have a phase curve of a super-Earth,» says Sara Seager, an astronomer and planetary scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.