Sentences with phrase «planetary nature of»

Giant transiting exoplanets are easily mimicked by false positives, so spectroscopic follow - up observations are needed to establish the planetary nature of the transit detections, and easily reveal blended multiple stellar systems.

We detected the transit light - curve signature in the course of the TrES multi-site transiting planet survey, and confirmed the planetary nature of the companion via multicolor photometry and precise radial velocity measurements.

Archival and follow - up photometry, the Gaia parallax, radial velocities, Doppler tomography, and adaptive optics imaging were used to confirm the planetary nature of the companion and characterize the system.

We confirmed the planetary nature of the transiting companion using this mass limit and Doppler tom... ▽ More We present the discovery of KELT - 21b, a hot Jupiter transiting the $ V = 10.5 $ A8V star HD 332124.

We identified the initial transit signal in the KELT - North survey data and established the planetary nature of the companion through precise follow - up photometry, high - resolution spectroscopy, precise radial velocity measurements, and high - resolution adaptive optics imaging.

We confirmed the planetary nature of the transiting companion using this mass limit and Doppler tomographic observations to verify that the companion transits HD 332124.

The initial transit signal was identified in KELT - North survey data, and the planetary nature of the occulter was established using a combination of follow - up photometry, high - resolution imaging, high - resolution spectroscopy, and precise radial velocity measurements.

Detailed light curve analysis with BLENDER validates the planetary nature of Kepler - 421b to > 4 sigmas confidence.

But other observations need to confirm the true planetary nature of these candidate events, because the observed dips may also be due to an eclipsing binary star in the background whose light blends with the foreground star studied by Kepler.

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«In a future mission, we could fly through those plumes and tell a lot about the chemistry and nature of the surface» and possibly a liquid ocean below, Bob Pappalardo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who wasn't involved in the work, told Business Insider — all without having to drill through the moon's miles - thick ice shell.

But there is also the promise of a unified planetary society living in harmony with nature, using the natural resources of the earth for the benefit of all the earth's living creatures, and opening up prospects of human adventures never before possible.

I refer to the notion of a planetary society living at peace with nature and with God organized in such a way as to provide all persons with equal access to the available means of human fulfillment.

But today we need new visions of a perfected social order, a planetary society in which all men have equal access to the means of human fulfillment in a world brotherhood at peace with nature and with God.

Whereas the ancients simply had to obey the dictates of their gods (as known within their traditions), we now find that, as a very important part of nature ourselves, an increasing measure of responsibility lies upon our species for the future of all planetary life.

This credo and strategy must be developed in alliance with secular futurists and other persons who are committed to a vision of a planetary brotherhood, living at peace with nature and with God, in which all people have equal access to the material resources of the world.

Whereas the Biosphere in its essence is complexity linked but divergent and diffused, the Noosphere combines in itself the properties of a planetary zone (or sphere) and those of a sort of higher individuality endowed with something in the nature of a super-consciousness.)

I can only give expression to my own intuition that this possible emergence of a new consciousness should be given shape by a utopian vision of a planetary brotherhood at peace with nature and with God, united with all of life in the enjoyment of its potentialities.

Imagine men awakening at last, under the influence of the ever - tightening planetary embrace, to a sense of universal solidarity based on their profound community, evolutionary in its nature and purpose.

Africanus replies by holding forth on the natures of the various heavens, beginning with the sphere of the fixed stars and proceeding to each of the planetary spheres in descending order, until he comes to our sublunary region of mutability.

The first author of this research Dr David Frew, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Physics said: «measuring distances to Galactic «planetary nebulae» has been an intractable problem for many decades, because of the extremely diverse nature of both the nebulae themselves and their central stars.

Judge Coffin says the nature, facts and drivers of climate change will be central to the case — including whether there is a threshold at which the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere reaches a tipping point locking in irreversible planetary damage.

Life could have started and thrived under those conditions, says planetary scientist David Grinspoon of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

Now, in the 11 September issue of Nature, planetary scientists have explained why.

«Nature has provided us with huge numbers of planetary systems,» said Kempton, an assistant professor of physics at Grinnell College in Iowa.

Many of the criticisms offered by the Breakthrough Institute were raised in the original paper that presented the planetary boundaries concept, published in Nature on September 24, 2009.

Something stunted the growth of Mars in the earliest years of the solar system, planetary scientists report today in Nature.

That's not the case with the new cluster, reported in the 13 June issue of Nature by planetary scientist David Nesvorný of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and his colleagues.

A bet the former had with other scientists on the nature of planetary orbits.

The research team looked at some of these as examples, and studied the evolving nature of planetary habitability over astronomical and geological time.

Johan Rockström of Stockholm University and his colleagues are proposing nine «planetary boundaries» in this week's Nature.

«Pre-planetary» and «planetary» nebulae are different in the nature of the light they produce; pre-planetary nebulae reflect light, whereas mature planetary nebulae shine through ionisation (where atoms lose or gain electrons).

Planetary scientists hope that analysis of Phobos's regolith will shed light on the nature of the satellite's deep interior because of the turnover between the surface and the interior over the eons.

«Thus, it is important to understand the time - dependent nature of our planet's interior dynamics in order to better understand the geological forces that affect the planetary surface that is our home.»

The results, published July 30 in Nature, provide insights into the moon's early history, its orbital evolution, and its current orientation in the sky, according to lead author Ian Garrick - Bethell, assistant professor of Earth and planetary sciences at UC Santa Cruz.

«There's basically only one process we know of that will produce a giant elliptical depression... and that's a giant impact,» says M.I.T. planetary scientist Jeffrey Andrews - Hanna, lead author of the report, published in Nature.

«On Pluto, almost the whole game is haze,» says planetary scientist Robert West of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., who wrote a commentary on the new work, also published in the Nov. 16 Nature.

It was described in the journal Nature last year by Delores Hill and William Boynton of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona.

Like other stars of its ilk, the sun will unfurl into nature's premier work of art: a planetary nebula

These findings are published on 2 March 2016 in the journal Nature by a mainly French team including researchers from Géosciences Paris Sud (CNRS / Université Paris - Sud), Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (CNRS / Université Toulouse III — Paul Sabatier / IRD) and the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (CNRS / École polytechnique / UPMC / ENS), together with a researcher from the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (University of Arizona, US).

«Volcanoes may be important in creating the conditions for Mars to be wet,» said Michael Manga, a UC Berkeley professor of earth and planetary science and senior author of a paper appearing in Nature this week and posted online March 19.

In a paper published today in Nature Physics, a research team from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Rochester provides experimental evidence for superionic conduction in water ice at planetary interior conditions, verifying the 30 - year - old prediction.

The study, published online Oct. 5 and appearing in the November issue of Nature Geoscience, comes from Charles Lesher, professor of Earth and Planetary Science at UC Davis and a visiting professor at Aarhus University, and his former PhD student, Eric Brown, now a post-doctoral scholar at Aarhus University.

As such, it strengthens the claims of a recent Lancet Commission on Planetary Health that calls for protecting nature to achieve health outcomes.»

Because of these false positives, a sequence of tests - as originally outlined by Alonso et al. (2004)- is employed, beginning with detailed revisions of the detection light - curves, and continuing for surviving candidates with follow - up observations, to either reject them from the list of planetary candidates or to verify their planetary nature.

Given the stochastic nature of planetary accretion, each realization of a protoplanetary disk will be modeled ~ tens of times in order to provide statistically significant outcomes that will allow us to quantify the confidence of results.

The program honors pioneering planetary geologist Gene Shoemaker, who did so much to help us understand the process of impact cratering on the planets and the nature of the NEO population, and seeks to assist amateur observers, observers in developing countries, and under - funded professional observers contributing to vital NEO research.

The probe will hopefully provide essential data to understanding the nature of planetary habitability.

Using BLENDER together with constraints from other follow - up observations we are able to rule out all blends for the two deeper signals, and provide independent validation of their planetary nature.

It's a fun look at past and present issues in astrophysics and space science, from odd planetary weather, to dark energy, to the nature of time, to our apparent isolation in the cosmos.

«The history of planetary science shows us that we develop theories and models, and nature does not read our papers,» McKay said.