Sentences with phrase «planetary properties»

We present fundamental planetary properties of our sample based on a comprehensive analysis of Kepler light curves and ground - based spectroscopy and high - resolution imaging.

All that extra mass creates internal pressures far exceeding terrestrial squeezing, with implications for three life - critical planetary properties: the maintenance of oceans, climatic «thermostats» and magnetic fields.

Over the past decades, astronomers have invoked giant cosmic collisions to explain a wide variety of weird planetary properties.

Stellar and planetary properties of K2 campaign 1 candidates and validation of 18 systems, including a planet receiving earth - like insolation.

«My thinking is that life is just another planetary property, like the planet having an atmosphere, continental drift, volcanoes, a greenhouse effect, the right location with respect to a star,» he says.

We will also explore a large parameter space, investigating how the final planetary system architecture and planetary properties are influenced by the planetesimal disk surface density and size.

I will discuss some recent results and ongoing work in studying volatile evolution in the outer and inner disk, and in linking the results to the planetary properties.

At NSF, we are funding research into the observational characterization of planetary properties, measurements and models of exoplanet atmospheres, and the theory of the formation and evolution of planetary systems.