Sentences with phrase «team of astronomers from»

The survey is led by Doug Johnstone, Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada and Greg Herczeg, Professor at Peking University (China), and is supported by an international team of astronomers from Canada, China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the United Kingdom.

A team of astronomers from the University of Cambridge have identified nine new dwarf satellites orbiting the Milky Way, the largest number ever discovered at once.

Last month an amateur team of astronomers from the La Sagra Sky Survey Observatory in southeast Spain discovered an asteroid roughly 150 feet wide as it -LSB-...]

Discovery of the system's extraordinary properties was made by a team of astronomers from Vanderbilt and Harvard with the assistance of colleagues at Lehigh, Ohio State and Pennsylvania State universities, Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network and the American Association of Variable Star Observers and is described in a paper accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal.

A team of astronomers from Germany and Britain have discovered a new planet, which has the potential to be habitable.

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Measurements taken by a team of astronomers from the Universities of Geneva and Bern are given in the framework of the PlanetS NCCR; the figures come from observations made over sodium spectral lines.

Using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) of radio telescopes, an international team of astronomers from the United States and Taiwan studied the area generally thought to mark the Galactic center.

Now, a new study by a team of astronomers from France, Israel and Hawaii demonstrates a novel approach.

The measurements confirm observations by another team of astronomers from the Netherlands, which detected the polarized bursts using the William E. Gordon Telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

Three new planets classified as habitable - zone super-Earths are amongst eight new planets discovered orbiting nearby red dwarf stars by an international team of astronomers from the UK and Chile.

A team of astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and SOKENDAI (Graduate University of Advanced Studies, Japan) are tracking velocity structures and gaseous metallicities in galaxies in two protoclusters located in the direction of the constellation Serpens.

Not exact matches

In two studies, international teams of astronomers suggest that recent images from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory of two pulsars — Geminga and B0355 +54 — may help shine a light on the distinctive emission signatures of pulsars, as well as their often perplexing geometry.

An international team of astronomers has determined that Centaurus A, a massive elliptical galaxy 13 million light - years from Earth, is accompanied by a number of dwarf satellite galaxies orbiting the main body in a narrow disk.

Now, a team of astronomers has used position and velocity data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey as well as computer simulations of stellar evolution in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC, pictured above), a small satellite galaxy near the Milky Way, to show that these speeding stars may come from there.

So one team of astronomers used data from the Gaia space observatory to simulate the interiors of solar - type stars, which are similar in mass and age to our own sun.

A team of European astronomers says the secret to their cohesion is a cushion of dark matter that protects them from the gravitational tug - of - war outside.

In fact, Swift X-ray and optical observations were carried out two days after FRB 131104, thanks to prompt analysis by radio astronomers (who were not aware of the gamma - ray counterpart) and a nimble response from the Swift mission operations team, headquartered at Penn State.

In 2012 and 2014 a team led by an astronomer from Paris Observatory took a second look at the auroras using the ultraviolet capabilities of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) installed on Hubble.

To solve this problem, astronomers from Daniel Schaerer's research group at the Department of Astronomy of the Faculty of Sciences, and an international team proposed to observe «green pea» galaxies.

A team led by astronomer Kenji Hamaguchi of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, used the XMM - Newton and Chandra x-ray satellites to study a stellar nursery just 550 light - years from Earth.

In the following years, the team that included Dr. Marilyn Latour, an astronomer from the Dr. Remeis - Sternwarte Bamberg, the astronomical institute of Friedrich - Alexander - Universität Erlangen - Nürnberg (FAU), studied these stars in more detail and concluded that they had stumbled upon a new class of variable star.

An international team of astronomers including researchers from the University of British Columbia has discovered a new dwarf planet orbiting in the disk of small icy worlds beyond Neptune.

The team calculates an age of only 400 - 600 million years old, which agrees with the age estimated from its rotation period (a technique pioneered by CfA astronomer Soren Meibom).

A team of British and American astronomers used data from several telescopes on the ground and in space — among them the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope — to study the atmosphere of the hot, bloated, Saturn - mass exoplanet WASP - 39b, about 700 light - years from Earth.

Following up on the discovery, an international team of scientists led by the Swiss astronomer Vincent Bourrier from the Observatoire de l'Université de Genève, used the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study the amount of ultraviolet radiation received by the individual planets of the system.

Other papers in the package also touch on the presence of water ice on Ceres, which had already been reported by the Dawn team and by astronomers observing the dwarf planet from afar.

Using archival data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and the XMM - Newton and Chandra X-ray telescopes, a team of astronomers have discovered a gigantic black hole, which is probably destroying and devouring a big star in its vicinity.

The key observation from the new research is that the small dip in the HAT - P - 7 b light curve when the planet passes behind its star «is roughly equivalent to the signal of an Earth - size planet when it passes in front of its parent star,» says Paul Kalas, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, who is not part of the Kepler team.

The new COS observations build and expand on the findings of a 2015 Hubble study by the same team, in which astronomers analyzed the light from one quasar that pierced the base of the bubble.

«Each family member drifts away from the center of the family in a way that depends on its size, with small guys drifting faster and further than the larger guys,» said team leader Marco Delbo, an astronomer from the Observatory of Cote d'Azur in Nice, France.

A team of astronomers has combined new observations of Gliese 667C with existing data from HARPS at ESO's 3.6 - metre telescope in Chile, to reveal a system with at least six planets.

A team of astronomers led by John Webb of the University of New South Wales has been measuring how the light from quasars is absorbed by gas clouds that lie between them and us but are still billions of light - years away, and thus did their absorbing billions of years ago.

Using data captured by ALMA in Chile and from the ROSINA instrument on ESA's Rosetta mission, a team of astronomers has found faint traces of the chemical compound [Freon - 40]--(CH3Cl), also known as methyl chloride and chloromethane, around both the infant star system IRAS 16293 - 2422, about 400 light - years away, and the famous comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (67P / C - G) in our own Solar System.

But a team of astronomers recently discovered something odd enough to make even their most jaded colleagues take notice: a vast fountain of antimatter that appears to be spewing from our galaxy's center.

The first earthly pieces of Vesta were identified only in 1970, when a team of astronomers studying light reflected from the asteroid's surface found that its spectrum — which reveals the minerals present — perfectly matched that of a certain distinct class of meteorite.

An interdisciplinary team of UvA physicists and astronomers proposed to search for primordial black holes in our galaxy by studying the X-ray and radio emission that these objects would produce as they wander through the galaxy and accrete gas from the interstellar medium.

To spot the black hole's event horizon, a team of astronomers — led by Michael Garcia and Ramesh Narayan of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts — watched what happened as a black hole stole gas away from a nearby star.

So using the Hubble Space Telescope, MIT astronomer Julien de Wit and his colleagues, including some members from Grimm's team, observed the four middle planets as they passed in front of the star.

A possible answer comes from a new model of the black hole's feeding behavior, presented by a team led by Roman Shcherbakov, an x-ray astronomer at Harvard University.

Lawrence Rudnick, the astronomer who led the team that found the void, was studying data from the Very Large Array, a network of 27 radio antennas in New Mexico, when he spotted a gap in the constellation Eridanus where radio signals from galaxies appear unusually faint.

Last February a team of astronomers reported detecting an afterglow from a mysterious event called a fast radio burst, which would pinpoint the precise position of the burst's origin, a longstanding goal in studies of these mysterious events.

Upon closer examination of the data — compiled from nearly 500 hours of observation by the 64 - meter Parkes radio telescope in Australia — a team led by astronomer Duncan Lorimer of West Virginia University in Morgantown estimated that the blast actually came from about 3 billion light - years away.

An international team of astronomers, led by Imperial College London, used a new way of combining data from the two European Space Agency satellites, Planck and Herschel, to identify more distant galaxy clusters than has previously been possible.

The Magellanic Clouds, the two largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, appear to be connected by a bridge stretching across 43,000 light years, according to an international team of astronomers led by researchers from the University of Cambridge.

Now, a team of astronomers says they have found another one, not quite as big, orbiting 200 light - years from the center of the Milky Way.

And when matter ejected from the second explosion caught up with the debris from the first, the resulting collision produced an extremely bright flash, which is what astronomers observed with SN 2006gy, the team reports in the 15 November issue of Nature.

Hendrik Hildebrandt from the Argelander - Institut für Astronomie in Bonn, Germany and Massimo Viola from the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands led a team of astronomers [1] from institutions around the world who processed images from the Kilo Degree Survey (KiDS), which was made with ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST) in Chile.

«Last Sunday, after seven years in space traveling nearly three billion miles, Stardust landed in the Great Salt Lake Desert with a treasure from when the solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago,» says astronomer Donald Brownlee of the University of Washington, who led the Stardust team.

The finding, by an international team of astronomers, including Professor Geraint Lewis from the University of Sydney's School of Physics, is announced today in Nature.