Sentences with phrase «study eclipsing binaries»

David Fleming, a doctoral student at the University of Washington, and colleagues study eclipsing binaries, or those where the orbital plane is so near the line of sight, both stars are seen to cross in front of each other.

In a paper accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal, lead author David Fleming, a UW astronomy doctoral student, studies eclipsing binaries, or those where the orbital plane is so near the line of sight, both stars are seen to cross in front of each other.

Not exact matches

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.

Specifically, eclipsing binary stars can be used to study the stellar mass - radius relationship and to test predictions of theoretical stellar evolution models.

When eclipsing binaries orbit each other closely, within about 10 days or less, the study authors wondered, do tides — the gravitational forces each exerts on the other — have «dynamical consequences» to the star system?