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1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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