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1. SPECULOOS, a search for terrestrial planets transiting the nearest ultra-cool stars (Speaker: Michael Gillon)

   ... from one to a few days. Thanks to this proximity, the transits of habitable planets are much more probable and frequent than for ... tiny size of these stars (about 1 Jupiter radius) makes the transits of Earth-sized planets deep enough for a ground-based detection. ...

   Anonymous - 2013-10-06 10:27

2. Learning from hot Jupiters

   ... the wavelengths of starlight that are observed as the planet transits, or passes in front of, its host star. These methods provide estimates ... effect — a physical phenomenon that occurs when a planet transits its host star and changes the appearance of the starlight produced as ...

   siteadmin - 2012-11-01 18:09

3. Waking up to a new year

   ... periodic dips of light each time a planet crosses, or transits, the star. But there are other periodic stellar phenomena that can ... smaller dips in the data midway between the planetary transits.  The group was able to detect the light given off by the planet ...

   siteadmin - 2013-08-19 14:33

4. Brown Bag Lunch Talk--Hypervelocity Stars (Speaker: Idan Ginsburg, CfA)

   ... HVSs may house planets that should be detectable as transits. The discovery of such a transit has important consequences for ...

   Anonymous - 2013-04-02 21:09

5. Searching for solar systems like our own

   ... systems. The group analyzes changes in starlight as a planet transits, or eclipses, its star. These signals can give scientists clues to a ...

   siteadmin - 2013-04-10 16:21

6. Winn, Joshua N.

   ... Light Curve Project. XI. Submillimagnitude photometry of two transits of the bloated planet WASP-4b," J.N. Winn, M.J. Holman, J.A. Carter, ...

   Anonymous - 2013-03-20 13:24

7. Building a list of Earth candidates

   ... located at an angle that makes it impossible to view their transits from Earth. It’s highly likely that a planet that is smaller and ...

   siteadmin - 2013-02-26 18:50

8. In a first, astronomers detect strong winds on an exoplanet

   ... subtle changes in the wavelength of light when a planet transits its star. As HD209458b transited last August, its parent star left ...

   siteadmin - 2013-02-26 18:50

9. A far-off solar system

   ... sunspots using the light of these stars. Each time a planet transits — or crosses in front of — such a star, it blocks a bit of ...

   siteadmin - 2012-11-01 18:09