Sentence examples for mass objects from inspiring English sources

Peering through the veils of dust and gas, it reveals not just stars but many more planetary mass objects than expected.

We find that black hole – black hole binaries observed in gravitational waves will be dominated by the nearly equal mass objects, the black hole – neutron star binaries will mostly be the ones with the mass ratio q < 0.5.

"This kind of isolated giant planet, which apparently forms on time scales of less than a few million years, offers a challenge to our understanding of the formation processes of planetary mass objects," the discovery team, led by Dr. Maria Rosa Zapatero Osorio of the Astrophysics Institute of the Canary Islands, wrote in the current issue of the journal Science.

Open image in new window Fig. 7 Large mass objects in high inclination orbits.

"Now that we've discovered these planetary mass objects with their own little infant planetary systems, the definition of the word 'planet' has blurred even more," Jayawardhana says.

"Our discovery sheds new light on the ubiquity of isolated planetary mass objects," says Oasa about her work, the basis for a Ph.D. thesis approved last month.

The analysis of the stellar spectrum confirms that it is a very high mass object that probably experienced in the past several shell emission episodes.

Reporting this week at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Calgary, Canada, astronomer Ray Jayawardhana of the University of Toronto described how he and colleagues used the European Southern Observatory's telescopes in Chile to take the temperature of four planetary mass objects--or planemos--located about 450 light-years away.

Some of the newest low-mass objects may be too small for even feeble deuterium fusion.

"The formation of young, free-floating planetary-mass objects is difficult to explain by our current models of how planets form," she said.

The delta-v applied by the charge exchange neutral flux is greatest on high area-to-mass objects.