Sentences with phrase «planetary properties of»

It contains catalogs such as the Nearby Stars Catalog or the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog describing the stellar and planetary properties of the nearby stellar system within 10 parsecs and the properties of the potentially exoplanets, respectively.

Not exact matches

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.)

The history of science provides many examples of this combination of analogy and innovation in the creation of models which were useful in generating theories.4 The «Bohr model» of the atom, in which «planetary» electrons revolve in orbits around a central nucleus, resembles the solar system in certain of its dynamical properties; but the key assumption of quantum jumps between orbits had no classical parallel at all.

The telescope's 18 gold - coated mirror segments will allow astronomers to search for the universe's oldest galaxies, observe the formation of stars and measure the physical and chemical properties of planetary systems.

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.

The moon appears to be a tranquil place, but modeling done by University of New Hampshire and NASA scientists suggests that, over the eons, periodic storms of solar energetic particles may have significantly altered the properties of the soil in the moon's coldest craters through the process of sparking — a finding that could change our understanding of the evolution of planetary surfaces in the solar system.

The scientists» findings could help to increase the understanding of the basic properties of granular gases such as soot agglomeration in flue gases on Earth or in astrophysical phenomena such as cosmic dust in planetary rings in space.

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

These properties make the Dry Valleys so unusual that they more closely resemble Mars than they do most of Earth, and therefore make a great research station for planetary scientists who can't yet buy a ticket to Mars.

The improved understanding gives researchers new insight about the basic properties of silica and other materials, and could ultimately lead to improved models of planetary formation and composition and new approaches for designing future materials with improved functionality, such as strength.

He is a leading researcher in planetary cratering and in the physical properties of the smaller bodies of the solar system (asteroids, comets, planetary satellites, the planet Mercury).

Title: Planetary Systems Around Cool Stars: a Window Towards Characterization of Small Planets Abstract: Due to their favourable mass - radius ratios, current technical means enable characterization of the bulk properties of small planets around low - mass stars efficiently.

I study the statistical properties of extrasolar planetary systems around stars of different masses, and combine these results with numerical simulations to better understand their origins and habitability.

He continues to analyze data from that mission to understand the properties of planets and planetary systems.

Until we have detected a larger number of them, the properties and possible habitability of the near-most planetary systems will remain mysterious.»

This observational result, which uses the achromatic property of planetary transit signals that is not investigated by the Kepler observations, provides an independent indication that Kepler's false positive rate is low.

The MIPS instrument team has documented the incidence, properties, and evolution of planetary debris disks around nearby stars.

I am an Associate Professor in the Lunar and Planetary Lab, and my research focuses on the atmospheric properties of extrasolar planets.

In combinations with other methods of planet detection, direct imaging and spectroscopy will allow us to eventually: 1) fully map out the architecture of typical planetary systems and 2) study the atmospheric properties of exoplanets in depth.

«Since both stars and the planets in our Solar System produce radio emission, detailed study of the radio emission properties of these brown dwarfs may enable us to distinguish where the boundary between stellar and planetary behavior occurs in these not - quite - stars, not - quite - planets,» Osten explained.

As the Academies notes in their recent decadal survey,» [t] he search for exoplanets is one of the most exciting subjects in all of astronomy...» The report went on to recommend «a program to explore the diversity and properties of planetary systems around other stars, and to prepare for the long - term goal of discovering and investigating nearby, habitable planets.»

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.

The organizers can not accept liability for personal accident, loss or damage to private property, which may be incurred as a result of the participation in the European Planetary Science Congress 2018.

These include using the same model used to detect the planet instead to fit synthetic, planet - free data (with realistic covariance properties, and time sampling identical to the real data), and checking whether the «planet» is still detected; comparing the strength of the planetary signal with similar Keplerian signals injected into the original observations; performing Bayesian model comparisons between planet and no - planet models; and checking how robust the planetary signal is to datapoints being removed from the observations.

Abstract: In this brief communication we provide the rationale for, and the outcome of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) resolution vote at the XXIX - th General Assembly in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 2015, on recommended nominal conversion constants for selected solar and planetary properties.

The well - determined planetary properties and unusually large mass also make this planet an important benchmark for theoretical models of super-Jupiter formation.

The problem addressed by the resolution is a lack of established conversion constants between solar and planetary... ▽ More In this brief communication we provide the rationale for, and the outcome of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) resolution vote at the XXIX - th General Assembly in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 2015, on recommended nominal conversion constants for selected solar and planetary properties.

Physical properties of the planetary systems WASP - 45 and WASP - 46 from simultaneous multi-band photometry

The Planetary gongs represent a natural harmonic series based on the orbital properties of the Sun, the Earth, the Moon and the other planets.

The idealized GCMs described above are flexible and general enough that it is relatively straightforward to convert them into GCMs for other planets, for example, with different planetary rotation rates and radii and with different thermodynamic properties of the atmosphere, condensable species, and surface.

I have sought the best empirical evidence to show how changes in incoming solar radiation, accounted for by intrinsic solar magnetic modulation of the irradiance output as well as planetary modulation of the seasonal distribution of sunlight, affects the thermal properties of land and sea, including temperatures.

Research areas included the structure of Earth, Moon, and other planetary bodies; the atmospheres of Earth and the other planets; the origin and evolution of the solar system; the properties of interplanetary plasma; Sun - Earth relations; and the structure and evolution of stars.

Likely in addition to a Soli - Lunar tidal effect, there exists a planetary modulation of the heliosphere, of the cosmic ray flux reaching the Earth and / or of the electric properties of the ionosphere.

The black line, reconstructed from ISCCP satellite data, «is a purely statistical parameter that has little physical meaning as it does not account for the non-linear relations between cloud and surface properties and planetary albedo and does not include aerosol related albedo changes such as associated with Mt. Pinatubo, or human emissions of sulfates for instance» (Real Climate).

Dlugach, Z.M., and M.I. Mishchenko, 2005: The effect of aerosol shape in retrieving optical properties of cloud particles in the planetary atmospheres from the photopolarimetric data Jupiter.

http://www.vukcevic.talktalk.net/A&P.htm Neither of two drivers is in any respect connected to any property of the solar activity (TSI, magnetic etc) or even less to the planetary configuration.