21 July 2017
A new way to search for gravitational waves?
... the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, the team have suggested that astrometric data from ESA’s space-astrometry mission Gaia, could help fill the gap in the search for more GWs. Gaia is an ambitious mission...
February 2016
How to Build Planets
... radial velocity method, is one of three main ‘indirect’ techniques used to detect planets, the others being the astrometry and transit methods. The radial velocity method has been the prominent technique used by astronomers to find...
April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
... astronomical status quo. About the author David Galadí-Enríquez is a Spanish astrophysicist. He completed his PhD on astrometry and photometry of stellar open clusters at the University of Barcelona in 1998. He has been involved in studies and...
14 September 2016
Gaia's first map hints at big things to come
... and move across our Galaxy,” said Alvaro Giménez, ESA’s Director of Science. “Gaia is at the forefront of astrometry, charting the sky at precisions that have never been achieved before.” The precision that Giménez...
28 June 2017
The existence of orbiting supermassive black holes finally confirmed
... technical achievement over this 12-year period using the VLBA to achieve sufficient resolution and precision in the astrometry to actually see the orbit happening," said UNM Professor Greg Taylor. "It's a bit of a triumph in technology to have been...
17 December 2021
New study shows that 99.9% of the mass at the centre of our galaxy is due to black hole
... rotation of the black hole.” The team's research; “The mass distribution in the Galactic Centre from interferometric astrometry of multiple stellar orbits” will be published in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
