radial velocity
Britishnoun
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These variations can imitate the subtle radial velocity signals astronomers look for, sometimes making it difficult to determine whether a planet is truly present.
From Science Daily • Nov. 23, 2025
HPF recorded these shifts, known as radial velocity signatures, and astronomers used them to confirm that the star is being influenced by an orbiting planet.
From Science Daily • Nov. 23, 2025
The four exoplanets, known as the sub-Earth exoplanets, were discovered using the radial velocity technique by the MAROON-X instrument.
From Space Scoop • Apr. 23, 2025
One of the four sub-Earth exoplanets discovered is the least massive world ever found using the radial velocity technique.
From Space Scoop • Apr. 23, 2025
That the absolute velocity of these stars is, indeed, rather small may be found from column 10, giving their radial velocity, which in the mean amounts to only three siriometers per stellar year.
From Lectures on Stellar Statistics by Charlier, Carl Vilhelm Ludvig
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