Astrology
... • Sun sign compatibility? No correlation with 3000 couples marrying or 500 divorcing. • Choice of profession: No correlation with Sun sign for 6000 politicians or 17,000 scientists • Horoscope of mass murderer sent to 150 people. 94% said it described them well. • 3000 specific predictions about cel ...
... • Sun sign compatibility? No correlation with 3000 couples marrying or 500 divorcing. • Choice of profession: No correlation with Sun sign for 6000 politicians or 17,000 scientists • Horoscope of mass murderer sent to 150 people. 94% said it described them well. • 3000 specific predictions about cel ...
Astrology
... • Sun sign compatibility? No correlation with 3000 couples marrying or 500 divorcing. • Choice of profession: No correlation with Sun sign for 6000 politicians or 17,000 scientists • Horoscope of mass murderer sent to 150 people. 94% said it described them well. • 3000 specific predictions about ...
... • Sun sign compatibility? No correlation with 3000 couples marrying or 500 divorcing. • Choice of profession: No correlation with Sun sign for 6000 politicians or 17,000 scientists • Horoscope of mass murderer sent to 150 people. 94% said it described them well. • 3000 specific predictions about ...
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... Some protoplanetary disks may spawn many carbon planets simply because they are especially rich in carbon overall, and planet formation proceeds by a carbon-rich condensation sequence. The planets around the pulsar PSR 1257+12 (Wolszczan & Frail 1992) might have been formed in a carbon-rich nebula c ...
... Some protoplanetary disks may spawn many carbon planets simply because they are especially rich in carbon overall, and planet formation proceeds by a carbon-rich condensation sequence. The planets around the pulsar PSR 1257+12 (Wolszczan & Frail 1992) might have been formed in a carbon-rich nebula c ...
On disc driven inward migration of resonantly coupled planets with
... mass. The ratio of semi-major axes a1 /a2 of the planets decreases until the planets “lock” into a 2:1 commensurability with n2 ≈ 2n1 at a time t ≈ 400 orbits. Both planets then subsequently migrate inwards a further 10% maintaining this ratio, showing the resonance to be robust. Figure 1 also shows ...
... mass. The ratio of semi-major axes a1 /a2 of the planets decreases until the planets “lock” into a 2:1 commensurability with n2 ≈ 2n1 at a time t ≈ 400 orbits. Both planets then subsequently migrate inwards a further 10% maintaining this ratio, showing the resonance to be robust. Figure 1 also shows ...
The Galactic Halo The Galactic Disk Height and Thickness of MW
... Shapley’s Center of the Galaxy " To find the center of the Galaxy, Shapley measured the distance to each cluster using RR Lyrae stars and produced a three dimensional plot of the clusters’ positions. The center of the Galaxy was then identified by the average position of the clusters. " We now know ...
... Shapley’s Center of the Galaxy " To find the center of the Galaxy, Shapley measured the distance to each cluster using RR Lyrae stars and produced a three dimensional plot of the clusters’ positions. The center of the Galaxy was then identified by the average position of the clusters. " We now know ...
Program and abstracts in one word document
... High contrast imaging: a view on extrasolar planetary systems beyond the snow line Although very successful (more than 350 planets discovered up to now) indirect methods for extrasolar planet detection (radial velocity, transits) are sensitive to planets quite close to their hosts. Moreover, accurat ...
... High contrast imaging: a view on extrasolar planetary systems beyond the snow line Although very successful (more than 350 planets discovered up to now) indirect methods for extrasolar planet detection (radial velocity, transits) are sensitive to planets quite close to their hosts. Moreover, accurat ...
Planetary Radii Across Five Orders of Magnitude in Mass and Stellar
... We are still in the early days of a revolution in the field of planetary sciences that was triggered by the discovery of planets around other stars. Exoplanets now number over 200, with masses as small as 5–7 M (Rivera et al. 2005; Beaulieu et al. 2006). Comparative planetology, which once include ...
... We are still in the early days of a revolution in the field of planetary sciences that was triggered by the discovery of planets around other stars. Exoplanets now number over 200, with masses as small as 5–7 M (Rivera et al. 2005; Beaulieu et al. 2006). Comparative planetology, which once include ...
hot CNO cycle
... power is 8 x 1037 erg s-1, but only 1.3 x 1035 erg s-1 is escaping from the surface - small compared with the accretion luminosity. ...
... power is 8 x 1037 erg s-1, but only 1.3 x 1035 erg s-1 is escaping from the surface - small compared with the accretion luminosity. ...
Planetary Formation - Scholarly Commons @ Ouachita
... Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/honors_theses Part of the Physical Processes Commons, and the The Sun and the Solar System Commons ...
... Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/honors_theses Part of the Physical Processes Commons, and the The Sun and the Solar System Commons ...
Gilmore - Astrometry and Astrophysics in the Gaia sky
... distances to 1% for 18 million stars to 2.5 kpc distances to 10% for 150 million stars to 25 kpc rare stellar types and rapid evolutionary phases in large numbers parallax calibration of all distance indicators e.g. Cepheids and RR Lyrae to LMC/SMC ...
... distances to 1% for 18 million stars to 2.5 kpc distances to 10% for 150 million stars to 25 kpc rare stellar types and rapid evolutionary phases in large numbers parallax calibration of all distance indicators e.g. Cepheids and RR Lyrae to LMC/SMC ...
Stars III The Hertzsprung
... • Thus, dust grains redden light from stars and other objects as the light passes ...
... • Thus, dust grains redden light from stars and other objects as the light passes ...
13.1 Introduction 13.2 The Red Giant Branch
... phase is mass loss. As the stellar luminosity and radius increase while a star evolves along the giant branch, the envelope becomes loosely bound and it is relatively easy for the large photon flux to remove mass from the stellar surface via radiation pressure (Lecture 9.2.2) on atoms and grains. Gr ...
... phase is mass loss. As the stellar luminosity and radius increase while a star evolves along the giant branch, the envelope becomes loosely bound and it is relatively easy for the large photon flux to remove mass from the stellar surface via radiation pressure (Lecture 9.2.2) on atoms and grains. Gr ...
Insights into planet formation from debris disks: II. Giant impacts in
... The majority of the processes that contribute to the formation of a planetary system are thought to take place in the massive circumstellar disks that surround young stars called protoplanetary disks. Such disks last for up to around 10 Myr before dispersing through mechanisms that are still debated ...
... The majority of the processes that contribute to the formation of a planetary system are thought to take place in the massive circumstellar disks that surround young stars called protoplanetary disks. Such disks last for up to around 10 Myr before dispersing through mechanisms that are still debated ...
Transit surveys for Earths in the habitable zones of white dwarfs
... The search for habitable planets has focused on stars similar to the Sun as it is the sole example we have of a star with a habitable planet, and nuclear burning provides a long-lived source of energy (Kasting et al. 1993; Lunine et al. 2008). White dwarfs, which are as common as Sun-like stars, may ...
... The search for habitable planets has focused on stars similar to the Sun as it is the sole example we have of a star with a habitable planet, and nuclear burning provides a long-lived source of energy (Kasting et al. 1993; Lunine et al. 2008). White dwarfs, which are as common as Sun-like stars, may ...
Pulsed Accretion in the Young Binary &
... low fractional levels over the course of 10 Myr or less. Accretion would also be enhanced by a smaller binary separation and a smaller orbital period (Ostriker et al. 1992). But recently, White and Ghez (2001) found that the mass accretion rates for primary stars are similar to single stars, which s ...
... low fractional levels over the course of 10 Myr or less. Accretion would also be enhanced by a smaller binary separation and a smaller orbital period (Ostriker et al. 1992). But recently, White and Ghez (2001) found that the mass accretion rates for primary stars are similar to single stars, which s ...
16_Testbank
... cloud becomes so dense that the thermal radiation cannot escape, the temperature rises rapidly, nuclear fusion begins and the dense core becomes a protostar. As the cloud has collapsed from a large size to a small size, it must spin very fast to conserve angular momentum. This results in the formati ...
... cloud becomes so dense that the thermal radiation cannot escape, the temperature rises rapidly, nuclear fusion begins and the dense core becomes a protostar. As the cloud has collapsed from a large size to a small size, it must spin very fast to conserve angular momentum. This results in the formati ...
Untitled - METU Astrophysics Home Page
... calculations of neutron star mass and radii. However, the first observational evidence of a rotation powered pulsar hasn’t come until 1967, when Bell detected radio pulsations from outside the solar system which later was understood to be the first detection of a pulsar by the humankind. Following t ...
... calculations of neutron star mass and radii. However, the first observational evidence of a rotation powered pulsar hasn’t come until 1967, when Bell detected radio pulsations from outside the solar system which later was understood to be the first detection of a pulsar by the humankind. Following t ...
– 1 – 1. Nucleosynthetic Yields From Various Sources
... searches. Thus it was believed that if PISN acutally occur, they would be confined to the early Universe, where 0 metallicity would permit such high mass stars to be formed and to evolve. Such stars, if present, would be tremendously important in chemical evolution because of the very large amount o ...
... searches. Thus it was believed that if PISN acutally occur, they would be confined to the early Universe, where 0 metallicity would permit such high mass stars to be formed and to evolve. Such stars, if present, would be tremendously important in chemical evolution because of the very large amount o ...
white dwarfs, neutron stars, black hole
... our Sun. After the outer layers of the star have swollen into a red supergiant (i.e., a very big red giant), the core begins to yield to gravity and starts to shrink. As it shrinks, it grows hotter and denser, and a new series of nuclear reactions begin to occur, temporarily halting the collapse of ...
... our Sun. After the outer layers of the star have swollen into a red supergiant (i.e., a very big red giant), the core begins to yield to gravity and starts to shrink. As it shrinks, it grows hotter and denser, and a new series of nuclear reactions begin to occur, temporarily halting the collapse of ...
Astrophysical Conditions for Planetary Habitability - Max
... remain speculative, however, until they are observed, and one would not want to count on their existence while defining the requirements for a telescope to search for extrasolar life (Kasting et al., 2014). Recently, Kopparapu et al. (2013) rederived the HZ boundaries using a new 1-D climate model b ...
... remain speculative, however, until they are observed, and one would not want to count on their existence while defining the requirements for a telescope to search for extrasolar life (Kasting et al., 2014). Recently, Kopparapu et al. (2013) rederived the HZ boundaries using a new 1-D climate model b ...