Sentences with phrase «teams of astronomers announced»
Between August 24 and September 18, 2006, two teams of astronomers announced the discovery and direct imaging of a brown dwarf companion to this star (press release; Luhman et al, 2006; and Mugrauer et al 2006 — more below).
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In 1996, two teams of astronomers announced the possible detection of a planetary transit eclipse of the close binary pair CM Draconis Aab, which has yet to be confirmed (further details below).
At the January 2002, 199th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC, two teams of astronomers announced that the cold dust in Vega's circumstellar disk is at least partly gathered into large clumps, in a characteristic shape that suggests the gravitational influence of a giant planet in an eccentric orbit (Abstracts for sessions 66.04 and 66.05, and CfA press release).
In 1996, two teams of astronomers announced the possible detection of a planetary transit eclipse of the close binary pair CM Draconis Aab (Guinan et al, 1998; Martin and Deeg, 1996; and Guinan et al, 1996).
Between August 24 and September 18, 2006, two teams of astronomers announced the discovery and direct imaging of a spectral type - T, methane brown dwarf companion (T7.5 + / - 0.5) to this star (PSU press release; Luhman et al, 2006; and Mugrauer et al 2006).
In 1998, two teams of astronomers announced, shockingly, that the expansion rate of space is increasing over time.
Last month, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of the first alien world that could host life on its surface.
In June a team of astronomers announced that new images of the sun's surface could explain why our star brightens and dims over the course of an 11 - year cycle.
On October 16, 2012, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of a planet with around 1.13 + / - 0.09 Earth - masses in a very hot and tight, circular orbit around Alpha Centauri B, using the European Southern Observatory's the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument on the 3.6 - metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile.
On February 21, 2007, another team of astronomers announced that they had taken an infrared spectrum of the planet with the Spitzer Space Telescope (SSC news release; and CfA press release — more below).
On October 16, 2012, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of a planet with around 1.13 + / - 0.09 Earth - masses in a very hot and tight, circular orbit around Alpha Centauri B, using the European Southern Observatory's High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) instrument on the 3.6 - metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile.
On March 5, 2015, a team of astronomers announced that numerical simulations constrain the size of planetary candidate Alpha Centauri Bb (with orbital period P = 3.24 days; and semi-major axis a = 0.042 AU) to less than 2.7 Earth - masses at an inclination of 45 to 53 degrees relative to Stars» AB orbital plane (Plavchan et al, 2015).
On May 21, 2002, another team of astronomers announced the discovery of a stellar companion B in a wide orbit (Lowrance et al, 2002 — details below).
On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of a «super-Earth» class planet in a tight orbit around this star with with two other gas planets in outer orbits (ESO press release and Bouchy et al, 2009 — more details below).
On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of one «super-Earth» type planet in a tight orbit around this star with two other gas giant planets in outer orbits (ESO press release and Bouchy et al, 2009).
On December 1, 2010, a team of astronomers announced the results of the first analysis of the atmosphere of a super-Earth planet, GJ 1214 b, using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope.
On December 16, 2009, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of a super-Earth in an inner orbit using the «transit method» of planetary detection using «a fleet of ground - based telescopes no larger than those many amateur astronomers have in their backyards» as part of the MEarth Project (CfA news release).
On January 6, 2010, a team of astronomers announced their discovery of a «super-Earth» class planet in a tight orbit around this star (Keck press release and Howard et al, 2010 — more details below).
On June 16, 2008, a team of astronomers announced at the 2008 Extra Solar Super-Earths Workshop in France their discovery of three «super-Earth» class planets in tight orbits around this star (ESO press release; Barnes et al, 2009; and Mayor et al, 2008 and 2009 — more details below).
On March 4, 2014, a team of astronomers announced that analysis of new and older radial - velocity data from nearby red dwarf stars revealed two super-Earths «b» and «c» with minimum earth - masses of 4.4 (+3.7 / -2.4) and 8.7 (+5.8 / -4.7), respectively, at average orbital distances of 0.080 (+0.014 / -0.004) and 0.176 (+0.009 / -0.030) AU, respectively, from host star Gl 682, with orbital eccentricities of 0.08 (+0.19 / -.08) and 0.010 (+0.19 / -0.10) and periods around 17.5 and 57.3 days, respectively (UH news release; and Tuomi et al, 2014).
On March 4, 2014, a team of astronomers announced that analysis of new and older radial - velocity data from nearby red dwarf stars revealed two super-Earths «b» and «c.» Planet b has around 4.4 (+3.7 / -2.4) Earth - masses and an average orbital distance of 0.080 (+0.014 / -0.004) AU from host star Gl 682.
On 2007, a team of astronomers announced the discovery of a Neptune - class planet in an inner orbit, based on data from the HRS spectrograph on the Hobby - Eberly Telescope (Endl et al, 2008; and their web page on GJ 176 — more below).
In 1997, a team of astronomers announced the tentative discovery of a giant planet companion «b» to Aldebaran A (more details below).
On March 4, 2014, a team of astronomers announced that analysis of new and older radial - velocity data from nearby red dwarf stars revealed a planet with a minimum of 32 (max 49) Earth - masses at an average orbital distance of 0.97 AU from host star Gl 229, with an orbital period around 471 days (UH news release; and Tuomi et al, 2014).
Not exact matches
San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane and an international team of researchers have announced the discovery of a new rocky planet that could potentially have liquid water on its surface.
Two teams of astronomers made headlines in November after announcing they had photographed planets orbiting regular stars other than our own sun.
A year ago a team of Canadian astronomers announced that Vega, like a bigamous bank teller, has unsuspected peculiarities.
In fact, at the same meeting another team of astronomers led by William Dawson of the University of California, Davis, announced the discovery of the Musket Ball Cluster, somewhat closer to Earth, which also consists of two smaller clusters in the process of merging.
Now, an international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a very young hot Jupiter orbiting in the immediate vicinity of a star that is barely two million years old — the stellar equivalent of a week - old infant.
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.
The international team led by astronomers from Peking University in China and from the University of Arizona announce their findings in the scientific journal Nature on Feb. 26.
Back in 1994, a team led by astronomer Lewis Snyder of the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign announced preliminary evidence of the simplest type of amino acid, glycine, but the finding did not stand up to closer examination (New Scientist magazine, 11 June 1994, p 4).
[3] In early 2016, a team of astronomers, also led by Michaël Gillon announced the discovery of three planets orbiting TRAPPIST - 1.
(The potentially habitable super-Earth announced by a team of astronomers in September and later questioned by a rival team does not appear to transit, limiting the possibility of such detailed study.)
The team, led by astronomer and lead investigator David Jewitt of the University of California, Los Angeles, announced their conclusion yesterday.
The discovery was announced on May 17, 2016, in a Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) electronic telegram by University of California at Berkeley research astronomer Mike Wong, who led the team that analyzed the Hubble data.
Planet «b» - In 1996, a team of astronomers (including Eric Williams, Heather M. Hauser, and Phil Shirts) led by Geoffrey W. Marcy and R. Paul Butler announced the discovery of a Jupiter - class planet around Upsilon Andromedae (ups And) A using highly sensitive radial - velocity methods (Butler and Marcy, 1997.
Using this technique, a team of astronomers has just announced the detection of a rocky planet in this range.
Following on the heels of the unexpected discovery of a heavyweight «Mega-Earth» that was reported in a previous AmericaSpace article earlier this week, an international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of two nearby «Super-Earth» worlds orbiting an 11 - billion - year - old red sub-dwarf star at a distance of 12.7 light - years away.
On January 16, 2002, a team of astronomers (including (Debra A. Fischer, Geoffrey W. Marcy, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt, and Gregory W. Henry) announced the discovery of a planetary companion «b,» whose mass has been estimated at a minimum of 20 percent that of Jupiter (exoplanets.org; and Fischer et al, 2003, in pdf) with a similar diameter.
In 2000, a team of astronomers (Nick N. Gorkavyi, Sara Heap, Leonid Ozernoy, Tanya A. Taidakova, and John Mather) announced that modelling of the asymmetric circumstellar disk infalling into Vega suggests that there may be a planet twice the mass of Jupiter at an orbital distance of about 50 to 60 AU from the star — up to one and a half times the «average» orbital distance of Pluto in the Solar System (N.N. Gorkavyi et al, 2000 and more discussion).
Water Emissions - In September of 2002, a team of astronomers (including Cristiano Cosmovici of the Institute for Cosmic and Planetary Science) announced at the Second European Workshop on Exo / Astrobiology that they had detected water «maser» emissions from three of 17 star systems suspected of hosting planets, including Upsilon Andromedae, using the 32 - meter Medicina radio telescope near Bologna.
On May 21, 2002, a team of astronomers (Patrick J. Lowrance, J. Davy Kirkpatrick, and Charles A. Beichman) announced that Upsilon Andromedae has a dim stellar companion B that shares the same common proper motion as Star A. Upsilon Andromedae B currently is separated from Star A by around 750 AUs.
An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a potentially - habitable Super-Earth around the nearby red dwarf star Gliese 832.
Planets «b, c, and d» - On December 14, 2009, a team of astronomers (Steven S. Vogt; Robert A. Wittenmyer, R. Paul Butler, Simon O'Toole, Gregory W. Henry, Eugenio J. Rivera, Stefano Meschiari, Gregory Laughlin, C. G. Tinney, Hugh R. A. Jones, Jeremy Bailey, Brad D. Carter, and Konstantin Batygin) announced the discovery of one innermost orbiting super-Earth and two outer - orbiting, Neptune - class planets (with at least 5.1, 18.2, and 24.0 Earth - masses, respectively) in moderately circular, inner orbits around 61 Virginis with periods of 4.2, 38.0, and 124.0 days, based on radial - velocity observations over 4.6 years with the Keck Observatory's High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) and the Anglo - Australian Telescope (U.C. Santa Cruz news release; AAO press release; Keck press release; the Lick - Carnegie Exoplanet Survey Team's «Systemic Console;» and Vogt et al, 20team of astronomers (Steven S. Vogt; Robert A. Wittenmyer, R. Paul Butler, Simon O'Toole, Gregory W. Henry, Eugenio J. Rivera, Stefano Meschiari, Gregory Laughlin, C. G. Tinney, Hugh R. A. Jones, Jeremy Bailey, Brad D. Carter, and Konstantin Batygin) announced the discovery of one innermost orbiting super-Earth and two outer - orbiting, Neptune - class planets (with at least 5.1, 18.2, and 24.0 Earth - masses, respectively) in moderately circular, inner orbits around 61 Virginis with periods of 4.2, 38.0, and 124.0 days, based on radial - velocity observations over 4.6 years with the Keck Observatory's High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) and the Anglo - Australian Telescope (U.C. Santa Cruz news release; AAO press release; Keck press release; the Lick - Carnegie Exoplanet Survey Team's «Systemic Console;» and Vogt et al, 20Team's «Systemic Console;» and Vogt et al, 2009).
On December 13, 2005, a team of astronomers (led by Lynne Allen) announced the discovery of a new planetary body between one - fifth to one half the size of Pluto, found during routine operation of the Canada - France Ecliptic Plane Survey (CFEPS) as part of the Legacy Survey on the Canada France Hawaii Telescope (CFEPS press release).
The discovery, jointly announced by a team of scientists from the University of Cambridge and astronomers associated with the Dark Energy Survey — a multinational collaboration of research institutes in the U.S. and Europe — could help scientists unravel the mysterious dark matter that constitutes over 84 percent of all matter in the universe.
In 1996, a team of astronomers (including Geoffrey W. Marcy and R. Paul Butler) announced the discovery of a Jupiter - class planet around 70 Virginis using highly sensitive radial - velocity methods (Marcy and Butler, 1996).
A team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a new moon located in the far reaches of our Solar System, orbiting the little - known dwarf planet Makemake.
In 1996, a team of astronomers (including Eric Williams, Heather M. Hauser, and Phil Shirts) led by Geoffrey W. Marcy and R. Paul Butler announced the discovery of a Jupiter - class planet around Star A using highly sensitive radial - velocity methods (Butler et al, 1997).