Sentences with phrase «transit times measured»

This often means transit times measured in months, with the associated risks of missing market opportunities.

Not exact matches

«Drastic times call for drastic measures, but it is imperative that our transit system is brought up to a 21st century standard on which all New Yorkers can depend,» Adams declares.
They include physician - assisted death, New York City transit improvements and a measure to loosen the statute of limitations on molestation to give victims more time to sue their abusers.
By measuring these transit timing variations and performing some fearsome modeling of the system, they were able to estimate the planets» masses — and work out their densities.
The first, named CoRoT - 7b after the spacecraft that witnessed the transits, weighs about five Earth - masses, measuring about one - and - a-half times Earth's width.
By measuring the times at which these transits occurred very carefully, we were able to discover that the two planets are locked in an intricate dance of tiny wobbles giving away their masses.»
Measuring the depth of the transit gave the planet's size, which is 1.6 times Earth.
Astronomers using a ground - based telescope have measure the transit of 55 Cancri e for the first time.
The researchers detected a transit each time the star's light dipped, and measured this dimming to determine the planet's size.
A complementary technique used to determine mass, and in turn density of a planet, is by measuring the transit timing variations (TTV).
Multiple planets transiting the same star reveal more: period ratios determine stability and dynamics, mutual gravitational interactions reflect planet masses and orbital shapes, and the fraction of transiting planets obs... ▽ More When an extrasolar planet passes in front of its star (transits), its radius can be measured from the decrease in starlight and its orbital period from the time between transits.
Abstract: When an extrasolar planet passes in front of its star (transits), its radius can be measured from the decrease in starlight and its orbital period from the time between transits.
``... starch from a radiolabeled solid meal containing 50 g potato starch was measured under control conditions and after altering transit time with either loperamide, or magnesium citrate.
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