A new instrument being built by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics for use in the Canary Islands will help NASA's planet-scouting Kepler spacecraft confirm and characterize potential ...
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 127, No. 958 (December 2015), pp. 1240-1262 (23 pages) AbstractWe investigate various astrophysical contributions to the statistical ...
An international team of astronomers has released a massive dataset detailing the characteristics of over 1,600 "neighborhood" stars, in an effort to involve the public in the ongoing effort to ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The published radial velocities for a sample of ten suspected spectroscopic binaries were analyzed by means of a computerized period-finding ...
Scientists have discovered a rare six-planet system, HD 110067, where all planets orbit their star in perfect mathematical harmony.