Sentences with phrase «used spectroscopic observations»

In 2010, Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University and Charlie Conroy of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used spectroscopic observations to discover that eight massive elliptical galaxies had given birth to an even greater proportion of small stars than the Milky Way did.

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The team inferred the presence of high - energy electrons using IRIS high - resolution ultraviolet imaging and spectroscopic observations of those footpoint brightenings.

Measurements of surface chemical composition, either by direct sampling (as has been done on Earth, the moon, and Mars) or through spectroscopic observations, can be used to estimate elemental abundances and the degree of chemical differentiation that occurred as the planets condensed from the solar nebula.

A team of astronomers, led by Thomas Beatty of Pennsylvania State University, used the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) to perform a spectroscopic study of the planet's atmosphere in the near - infrared and conducted the observation as the planet passed behind its parent star.

By using advanced high contrast imagers, it is possible to conduct high resolution spectroscopy on imageable exoplanets, after the star light is first suppress... ▽ More Spectroscopic observations are extremely important for determining the composition, structure, and surface gravity of exoplanetary atmospheres.

I have used the theory to interpret spectroscopic observations and interactions of relevance in colloid science.

Using the twin telescopes of the Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii, the researchers were able to gather spectroscopic data from the afterglow of the supernova and observations of its host galaxy to better understand what might be driving this oddity.

Here, we use observations from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST, also called the Guoshoujing Telescope at Xinglong observatory, China) 33 to show that superflare stars are generally characterized by larger chromospheric emissions than other stars, including the Sun.

Current research in the Hida Observatory of Kyoto University has emphasis on the followings; (a) Study of solar MHD processes with spectroscopic and spectro - polarimetric observations using the 60 cm Domeless Solar Vacuum Tower Telescope (DST) combining with data from space solar missions (such as Hinode).