Sentences with phrase «planet candidates identified»

We apply this method to an analysis of the transit timing variations of two stars with multiple transiting planet candidates identified by Kepler.

Adaptive optics images made with ARIES at the MMT of 87 Kepler Objects of Interest place limits on the presence of fainter stars in or near the Kepler... ▽ More The Kepler mission has revolutionized our understanding of exoplanets, but some of the planet candidates identified by Kepler may actually be astrophysical false positives or planets whose transit depths are diluted by the presence of another star.

Abstract: The Kepler mission has revolutionized our understanding of exoplanets, but some of the planet candidates identified by Kepler may actually be astrophysical false positives or planets whose transit depths are diluted by the presence of another star.

The findings increase the number of planet candidates identified so far by Kepler to 1,235.

Not exact matches

We have identified more than 3,000 candidates, and we believe that most of them really are planets.

NASA's planet hunter has identified more than 700 candidate extrasolar worlds that have yet to be confirmed, including some that may be Earth - size

Rowe's team analysed the first two years» worth of data from the Kepler space telescope, which has identified hundreds of confirmed planets as well as thousands of planet candidates.

In addition, the researchers identified 428 candidates as likely «false positives,» or signals generated by something other than a planet.

Since first observing a planet orbiting a star other than our sun in 1992, astronomers have made definitive sightings of about 1000 «exoplanets» and have identified a further 3000 to 4000 candidate exoplanets.

Sifting through Kepler data, astronomers have discovered 130 new extrasolar planets and identified hundreds of planetary candidates, showing that the universe is teeming with planets.

Since then, Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 has identified roughly 117 additional brown dwarf candidates.

Thus, through multiplicity the lioness can be reliably identified in much the same way multiple planet candidates can be found around the same star.

Researchers recently identified three promising planets in the TRAPPIST - 1 system — e, f and g — which orbit in the habitable zone and would make good candidates for Webb to study.

«We determined the weather on these alien worlds by measuring changes as the planets circle their host stars, and identifying the day - night cycle,» said Lisa Esteves, a PhD candidate in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, and lead author of the study published today in The Astrophysical Journal.

The high - amplitude region of depths over 5 % is not covered by candidates in the follow - up program, because the eclipse depth as such identifies these cases as false positives in planet finding, excluding them automatically from follow - up observations.

As of last January, Kepler had identified 2,740 candidate planets, which are steadily being confirmed by follow - up observations from other telescopes.

«We've been able to fully automate our process of identifying planet candidates, which means we can finally assess every transit signal in the entire Kepler dataset quickly and uniformly,» said Jeff Coughlin, Kepler scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, who led the analysis of a new candidate catalog.

False positives in the multi - planet systems are identified and removed, leaving behind a residual population of candidate multi-planet transiting systems expected to have a false - positive rate less than 1 %.

We obtained follow - up optical spectra of 105/141 candidate host stars and 8/16 eclipsing binaries to improve stellar properties and to identify spectroscop... ▽ More We present 151 planet candidates orbiting 141 stars from K2 campaigns 5 - 8 (C5 - C8), identified through a systematic search of K2 photometry.

We identified 156 planet candidates, including one object that was not pre... ▽ More We present an improved estimate of the occurrence rate of small planets orbiting small stars by searching the full four - year Kepler data set for transiting planets using our own planet detection pipeline and conducting transit injection and recovery simulations to empirically measure the search completeness of our pipeline.

Abstract: New transiting planet candidates are identified in sixteen months (May 2009 - September 2010) of data from the Kepler spacecraft.

Abstract: We present 151 planet candidates orbiting 141 stars from K2 campaigns 5 - 8 (C5 - C8), identified through a systematic search of K2 photometry.

We have demonstrated the success of utilizing citizen science, with the discovery of four unknown planet candidates not previously identified by the Kepler team.

Improved vetting metrics are employed, contributing to higher cat... ▽ More New transiting planet candidates are identified in sixteen months (May 2009 - September 2010) of data from the Kepler spacecraft.

We identified 156 planet candidates, including one object that was not previously identified as a Kepler Object of Interest.

The Kepler Space Telescope, which is running out of fueland will end its mission later this year, has discovered 2,649 planets and identified a further 2,724 candidate planets since it launched in 2009.

As of May 2013, scientists had identified roughly 900 confirmed «exoplanets» - planets beyond our solar system - and more than 2,700 planet candidates.

The site is designed for rapidly identifying planet candidates especially with the new two - wheeled ecliptic planet Kepler mission...

We identified six candidate transiting planets from the stellar light curves.

NASA's Kepler space telescope team has identified 219 new planet candidates, 10 of which are near - Earth size and in the habitable zone of their star.

In late September 2003, astrobiologist Maggie Turnbull from the University of Arizona in Tucson identified 37 Geminorum as one of the best candidates for hosting Earth - type life from a shortlist of 30 stars (screened from the 5,000 or so stars that are estimated to be located within 100 ly of Earth) that were presented to a group of scientists from NASA's space - telescope project, the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF), which will search for habitable planets by using visible light with the «signature» of water and / or oxygen from an Earth - type planet after its scheduled launch around 2013, and the ESA's Darwin project involving six space telescopes (Astrobiology MagaPlanet Finder (TPF), which will search for habitable planets by using visible light with the «signature» of water and / or oxygen from an Earth - type planet after its scheduled launch around 2013, and the ESA's Darwin project involving six space telescopes (Astrobiology Magaplanet after its scheduled launch around 2013, and the ESA's Darwin project involving six space telescopes (Astrobiology Magazine).

Follow - up observations of planetary candidates identified by detection of transit - like events are needed both for identification of astrophysical phenomena that mimic planetary transits and for characterization of the... ▽ More The Kepler Mission was launched on March 6, 2009 to perform a photometric survey of more than 100,000 dwarf stars to search for terrestrial - size planets with the transit technique.

Follow - up observations of planetary candidates identified by detection of transit - like events are needed both for identification of astrophysical phenomena that mimic planetary transits and for characterization of the true planets and planetary systems found by Kepler.

Kepler, which NASA said has discovered more than 80 % of all known confirmed exoplanets and candidate planets identified to date, uses what it known as the transit method, which means that it tracks stars over extended periods of time looking for brief periods of dimming.

To validate candidate planets identified by K2, the researchers obtained high - resolution images of the planet - hosting stars from Keck Observatory's near infrared camera (NIRC2), the Gemini and Large Binocular Telescope (among others) as well as high - resolution optical spectroscopy using Keck Observatory's high resolution spectrograph (HIRES) instrument and the AUtomated Planet Fplanet - hosting stars from Keck Observatory's near infrared camera (NIRC2), the Gemini and Large Binocular Telescope (among others) as well as high - resolution optical spectroscopy using Keck Observatory's high resolution spectrograph (HIRES) instrument and the AUtomated Planet FPlanet Finder.

To validate candidate planets identified by K2, the researchers obtained high - resolution images of the planet - hosting stars as well as high - resolution optical spectroscopy data.

Mautner himself has identified several good candidates, as well as gas and dust clouds surrounding fledgling stars, which may form suitable planets, someday.

Batalha is responsible for the selection of the more than 150,000 stars the spacecraft monitors and works closely with team members at Ames to identify viable planet candidates from Kepler photometry.