Sentences with phrase «technique called gravitational»

Using a technique called gravitational microlensing, scientists will hunt for exoplanets that orbit far from their host star and for free - floating exoplanets that wander between the stars.

The planet was discovered through a technique called gravitational microlensing.

The astronomers used the technique called gravitational lensing to find the giant but invisible structure.

Through a technique called gravitational microlensing in which the light from a background object is bent by gravity around a foreground object.

To better «weigh» voids, Penn graduate student Joseph Clampitt and his mentor Jain recently adapted a technique called gravitational lensing.

Additionally, the Planck collaboration performed one more check, using a technique called gravitational lensing to scour the CMB for evidence of how clumpy the universe was in its early life.

Not exact matches

Mayor and his colleagues showed instead that it was possible, through a technique called astrometry, to detect the slight wobble in a star's light caused by the gravitational pull of an orbiting planet.

To do this, they used a technique called weak gravitational lensing.

The composite image of 23,000 galaxy pairs was created through a technique called weak gravitational lensing.

(Many exoplanets have also been discovered using another technique called the radial velocity method, which looks for the gravitational influence of a planet on its star.)

This technique is called gravitational microlensing.