Sentences with phrase «searches for extrasolar planets by»
Along with Alycia Weinberger and Ian Thompson, Alan Boss has been running the Carnegie Astrometric Planet Search (CAPS) program, which searches for extrasolar planets by the astrometric method, where the planet's presence is detected indirectly through the wobble of the host star around the center of mass of the system.
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Its specialty will be time - domain spectroscopy — useful for observing accretion by galactic black holes, surveys of distant supernovae and even searches for extrasolar planets.
Extrasolar planets are targets for SETI investigations The count of exoplanets, those outside the Solar System, now has reached the multi-hundreds, with mucho mas inevitably to be counted.Working through financial troubles, SETI is again searching for intelligent life in the great Out There.So paraphrasing the relevant question posed by Enrico Fermi: If they're out there, why aren't they here?The answer may be simple.
The system, cataloged as OGLE -2005-BLG-169, was discovered in 2005 by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE), the Microlensing Follow - Up Network (MicroFUN), and members of the Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) collaborations — groups that search for extrasolar planets through gravitational microlensing.