Sentence examples for transit observations from inspiring English sources
Transit observations from Earth may help reach that goal.
Transit observations reveal the sizes of extrasolar planets as well as their orbital periods.
Planetary radii will be determined from PLATO transit observations.
Combining Kepler's initial transit observations with traditional radial velocity measurements, the scientists have been able to calculate that the two planets are just slightly less massive than Saturn.
Finally we discuss in Section 6 a new innovative idea how one can test the atmospheric evolution theories addressed in Section 5 by transit observations of Earth-size exoplanets, which are exposed to higher SXR/EUV fluxes of dwarf stars.
Transit observations in 1874 and 1882 allowed this value to be refined further.
Most planets that have been discovered are within a couple of AU from their host star because the most used methods (radial-velocity and transit) require observation of several orbits to confirm that the planet exists and there has only been enough time since these methods were first used to cover small separations.
Most managed to observe at least part of the transit, but successful observations were made in particular by Jeremiah Dixon and Charles Mason at the Cape of Good Hope.
Thus, transit follow-up observations of exoplanets discovered by ESA's currently studied PLATO mission in the UV-range of terrestrial exoplanets around M-type stars with space observatories such as the WSO-UV would provide a unique opportunity to shed more light on the early evolution of Earth-like planets, including those of our own Solar System.
According to modern calculations, observers in much of Italy and along the eastern Mediterranean should have been able to view the last stage of the transit, but no such observations were recorded.
Jeremiah Horrocks, who observed the 1639 Venus transit, had used his own observations to adjust the parameters of the Keplerian model, predicted the transit, and then built apparatus to observe the transit.
