Struve's own research involved
spectroscopic observations of stars and gas in the Milky Way.
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Spectroscopic observations of Vesta's surface indicate that it is covered with volcanic basalt, leading researchers to conclude that Vesta's interior once melted.
With AKARI, we performed near - infrared (2.5 - 4.5 um)
spectroscopic observations of 34 regions in M 82 including its northern and southern halos.
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Spectroscopic observations of the white dwarf allowed us to measure the abundances of the rocky material as it is being accreted and filtered through the star's atmosphere in real time,» Melis said.
The Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) is an HST instrument providing the capability for infrared imaging and
spectroscopic observations of astronomical targets.
New results include Hubble Space Telescope
spectroscopic observations of the TRAPPIST - 1 earth - sized planets (planets bcdefg).
In order to identify false positives and confirm transiting exoplanets, we have assembled a follow - up network (KELT - FUN) to conduct imaging with higher spatial resolution, cadence, and photometric precision than the KELT telescopes, as well as
spectroscopic observations of the candidate host stars.
The appearance of the plumes in this graphic is based on
spectroscopic observations of oxygen and hydrogen in the auroral emissions.
The team inferred the presence of high - energy electrons using IRIS high - resolution ultraviolet imaging and
spectroscopic observations of those footpoint brightenings.
Not exact matches
But telescopic and
spectroscopic observation, and increasingly exact calculations, are transforming this comfortable spectacle into a vision that is very much more unsettling, one which in all probability will profoundly affect our moral outlook and religious beliefs when it has passed from the minds
of a few initiates into the mass - consciousness
of Mankind as a whole: immensities
of distance and size, huge extremes
of temperature, torrents
of energy...
This intriguing fingerprint quickly triggered additional
observations by teams
of astronomers worldwide who obtained observing time with additional space observatories including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA's Nuclear
Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR).
Such
observations are pushing the
spectroscopic powers
of even the Hubble Space Telescope to its limits.
«Other
spectroscopic instruments have flown in space before but none have had this programmable multi-object capability that enables
observation of up to 100 objects simultaneously, which means much more scientific investigating can get done in less time.
«Astronomers find evidence
of water clouds in first spectrum
of coldest brown dwarf: Difficult
spectroscopic observations reveal properties
of the coldest known object outside
of our solar system.»
In 2010, Pieter van Dokkum
of Yale University and Charlie Conroy
of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used
spectroscopic observations to discover that eight massive elliptical galaxies had given birth to an even greater proportion
of small stars than the Milky Way did.
Materials known to exist at Pluto's surface from ground - based
spectroscopic observations include highly volatile cryogenic ices
of N2 and CO, along with somewhat less volatile CH4 ice, as well as H2O and C2H6 ices and more complex tholins that are inert at Pluto surface temperatures.
Measurements
of surface chemical composition, either by direct sampling (as has been done on Earth, the moon, and Mars) or through
spectroscopic observations, can be used to estimate elemental abundances and the degree
of chemical differentiation that occurred as the planets condensed from the solar nebula.
Spectroscopic observations revealed that the planet is only about three to four times the size
of the star — but its hydrogen emissions are almost as bright as the emission emanating from the star.
The results
of follow - up
observations (see Table 2) are a mixture
of results from photometric follow - up (Deeg et al. 2009), which identifies contaminating» diluted EB's that are more than about 2 distant from the third star - which usually coincides with the observing target -, and from
spectroscopic (radial velocity) results, which can only identify signals from sources that fall into the spectrograph's entry slit; that is, they have to be very close (less than 1 - 2) to the target.
The number
of planets discovered at 500 nm (black curve) that could also be detected at longer wavelengths (colored curves), as desired for
spectroscopic observations, as a function
of telescope aperture size and for two different assumed inner working angles.
Recently, Hallinan et al. (2015) reported simultaneous radio and optical
spectroscopic observations (obtained with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope and the Double Spectrograph (DBSP) on the 5.1 - m Hale telescope, respectively)
of auroral emissions
of an object at the end
of the stellar main sequence (i.e. at the boundary between stars and brown dwarfs).
The latter would enable the most detailed possible analysis, providing a crucial link with remote
spectroscopic observations and the compositions
of meteorites in order to develop a much wider understanding
of these small bodies, their properties, and what they can tell us about the evolution
of the solar system.
Spectroscopic observations taken with the GTC - 10.4 m telescope reveal a broad (FWHM ~ 1100 km / s), double - peaked H alpha emission line from which we constrain the radial velocity semi-amplitude
of the donor to be K2 > 250 km / s.
The goal
of the survey was to characterize planets orbiting low - mass stars, but our IRTF / SpeX and Palomar / TripleSpec
spectroscopic observations revealed that 49 %
of our targets were actually giant stars or hotter dwarfs reddened by interstellar extinction.
However, we also specifically show how high - contrast AO and speckle imaging
observations detect companions at larger separations ($ \ theta \ geq $ 0.02 - 0.05») that are missed by the
spectroscopic technique, provide additional information for characterizing the companion and its potential contamination (e.g., PA, separation, $ \ Delta $ m), and cover a wider range
of primary star effective temperatures.
A team
of astronomers, led by Thomas Beatty
of Pennsylvania State University, used the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) to perform a
spectroscopic study
of the planet's atmosphere in the near - infrared and conducted the
observation as the planet passed behind its parent star.
By using advanced high contrast imagers, it is possible to conduct high resolution spectroscopy on imageable exoplanets, after the star light is first suppress... ▽ More
Spectroscopic observations are extremely important for determining the composition, structure, and surface gravity
of exoplanetary atmospheres.
Archive centers may wish to utilize this system to quantify classes
of formerly arbitrary spectral classification strings found in classification catalogs corresponding to datasets
of pointed
spectroscopic observations in their holdings.
Abstract:
Spectroscopic observations are extremely important for determining the composition, structure, and surface gravity
of exoplanetary atmospheres.
«We are looking at several cubic miles
of lava in rapidly emplaced flows,» said Davies, who has developed models to predict the volume
of magma erupted based on
spectroscopic observations.
MATISSE is a four - way beam combiner, meaning it combines the light collected from up to four
of the Unit Telescopes or up to four
of the Auxiliary Telescopes that make up the VLTI, performing both
spectroscopic and imaging
observations.
I have used the theory to interpret
spectroscopic observations and interactions
of relevance in colloid science.
The
spectroscopic, imaging and polarimetric
observations that SPICA will b... ▽ More The SPICA mid and far - infrared telescope will address fundamental issues in our understanding
of star formation and ISM physics in galaxies.
To further investigate, astronomers led by Nanda Rea
of the University
of Amsterdam sought help from NASA's Chandra and Nuclear
Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, to follow up with the
observations.
Using the twin telescopes
of the Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii, the researchers were able to gather
spectroscopic data from the afterglow
of the supernova and
observations of its host galaxy to better understand what might be driving this oddity.
Potential topics include: (1) Advanced numerical modelling
of magnetic flux tubes / loops in the low solar atmosphere (2) Forward modelling
of spectroscopic and narrowband EUV
observations of the low solar atmosphere, (3) Solar Rotational Tomography
of EUV and / or coronagraph coronal
observations, (4) Automated detection and prediction
of coronal mass ejections, (5) Analysis
of solar wind turbulence
observations by in situ spacecraft, (6) Eclipse instrumentation,
observations and data analysis.
Accurate measurement
of GRB 000131's redshift required
spectroscopic observations.
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.
The
spectroscopic, imaging and polarimetric
observations that SPICA will be able to collect will help in clarifying the complex physical mechanisms which underlie the baryon cycle
of galaxies.
The baffling and strange behaviours
of black holes have become somewhat less mysterious recently, with new
observations from NASA's Explorer missions Swift and the Nuclear
Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR.
Current research in the Hida Observatory
of Kyoto University has emphasis on the followings; (a) Study
of solar MHD processes with
spectroscopic and spectro - polarimetric
observations using the 60 cm Domeless Solar Vacuum Tower Telescope (DST) combining with data from space solar missions (such as Hinode).
[23] The 1800s saw
spectroscopic studies
of the Sun advance, and Joseph von Fraunhofer made the first
observations of absorption lines in the spectrum, the strongest
of which are still often referred to as Fraunhofer lines.
By re-observing the photometric transit, we attempt to determine the transit parameters to high precision, and, by
spectroscopic observations, to estimate the properties
of the host star and determine the mass
of the transiting object by means
of radial - velocity measurements.
The evidence for this is a mountain
of spectroscopic data about the behaviour
of the greenhouse gases from laboratory
observations, ground level
observations, high altitude aircraft
observations and more recently satellite
observations.
The «clear sky radiative forcing due to CO2» (3.7 W / m ^ 2 for a doubling per Myhre et al. 1998b and IPCC TAR) is not a measured entity based on empirical data from actual physical
observations or reproducible experimentation, but rather an estimated value based on laboratory studies
of spectroscopic data.