Sentences with phrase «planet population»

If the Austrian team are right, this has dramatic implications, for example in the studies of planet populations and how the mass of planets relate to their size.

These discoveries from K2 provide a snapshot of planet formation and evolution in cluster environments and thus make excellent laboratories to test differences between field - star and cluster planet populations.

The observed planet population carries an important message of how planets form and what types of planetary systems exist for future scientific exploration.

Abstract: With each new version of the Kepler pipeline and resulting planet candidate catalogue, an updated measurement of the underlying planet population can only be recovered with an corresponding measurement of the Kepler pipeline detection efficiency.

This directly affects the determination of the occurrence rate of Earth - like planets in our Galaxy, as well as other planet population statistics.

This is the inferred planet population from radial velocity, microlensing, and direct imaging.

Landsat 8 will help scientists and policy makers better understand how the growing human population is affecting the planet

So I started a small research project investigating what the Kepler planet population looked like around stars of different masses.

Because K2 - 39b has a short orbital period, its existence makes it seem unlikely that tidal destruction is wholly responsible for the differences in planet populations around subgiant and main - sequence stars.

Since our telescopes and detection programs have only begun being sensitive enough to find a small planet in the habitable zone, it is possible the ones in this sample are not truly representative of the whole planet population, but are just the easiest ones to find.

The inferred planet population needs work as well, since the exact values depend on how these Jupiter - like planets formed.

As the world's human population moves to cities, how cities grow may well determine the fate of the planet

The Hyades is the nearest star cluster to the Sun, has an age of 625 - 750 Myr, and forms one of the fundamental rungs in the distance ladder; understanding the planet population in such a well - studied cluster can help us understand and set constraints on the formation and evolution of planetary systems.

Using probabilities like these, scientists can estimate the planet population of our galaxy from Kepler's observations.

While the two preferred theories of giant planet formation both indicate a single population of planets, the planet populations indicated by each model are somewhat different.