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  • Thumbnail for Stellar parallax
    a method for determining the distance to the star through trigonometry, the stellar parallax method. Created by the different orbital positions of Earth...
    22 KB (2,777 words) - 09:57, 27 August 2024
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    Remillard, Ronald A.; Orosz, Jerome A. (December 2011), "The Trigonometric Parallax of Cygnus X-1", The Astrophysical Journal, 742 (2): 83, arXiv:1106.3688...
    66 KB (7,278 words) - 14:51, 6 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cosmic distance ladder
    distance measurements in astronomy come from trigonometric parallax, as applied in the stellar parallax method. As the Earth orbits the Sun, the position...
    54 KB (7,874 words) - 17:48, 22 September 2024
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    1088/0004-637X/692/2/1075. S2CID 1431308. Reid, M. J.; et al. (November 2009). "A trigonometric parallax of Sgr B2". The Astrophysical Journal. 705 (2): 1548–1553. arXiv:0908...
    216 KB (21,677 words) - 21:00, 28 September 2024
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    in Gemini Faherty, J.; Walter, F. M.; Anderson, J. (2007). "The trigonometric parallax of the neutron star Geminga". Astrophysics and Space Science. 308...
    14 KB (1,501 words) - 17:42, 29 December 2023
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    Sun (redirect from Solar X-ray astronomy)
    observations of the solar parallax of a planet (more ideally using the transit of Venus) could be used to trigonometrically determine the distances between...
    170 KB (19,226 words) - 23:06, 30 September 2024
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    Dahn, Conard C.; Canzian, Blaise; Guetter, Harry H.; et al. (2007). "Trigonometric Parallaxes of Central Stars of Planetary Nebulae". Astronomical Journal...
    8 KB (727 words) - 19:41, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Luhman 16
    celestial coordinates: RA = 10h 49m 18.723s, Dec = −53° 19′ 09.86″. The trigonometric parallax of Luhman 16 as published by Sahlmann & Lazorenko (2015) is 0.50051±0...
    43 KB (4,286 words) - 05:45, 9 August 2024
  • observation. 1900–1930: first catalogued. After 1930: earliest trigonometric or spectroscopic parallax. Panuzzo, P. (2024). "Discovery of a dormant 33 solar-mass...
    24 KB (1,219 words) - 16:08, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Proxima Centauri
    Good Hope, the Dutch astronomer Joan Voûte measured the star's trigonometric parallax at 0.755″±0.028″ and determined that Proxima Centauri was approximately...
    102 KB (10,216 words) - 06:03, 4 October 2024
  • General Catalogue of Stellar Radial Velocities General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes Interstellar cloud Inter-stellar clouds Interstellar...
    3 KB (262 words) - 12:57, 12 January 2024
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    Alycia J.; Lloyd, James P. (2012). "GJ 1214b revised. Improved trigonometric parallax, stellar parameters, orbital solution, and bulk properties for the...
    17 KB (1,326 words) - 15:33, 21 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lunar distance
    Brown provided a formula for the parallax of the Moon as viewed from opposite sides of the Earth, involving trigonometric terms. This is equivalent to a...
    40 KB (4,225 words) - 01:45, 17 August 2024
  • optical counterparts. For the brightest one (RX J1856-3754), the trigonometric parallax and proper motion are known. The distance to the sources is about...
    16 KB (1,919 words) - 20:19, 4 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of nearest stars
    determine stellar distance to the Sun for objects at these distances is parallax, which measures how much stars appear to move against background objects...
    116 KB (5,343 words) - 04:56, 3 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aberration (astronomy)
    the propagation of light in moving bodies. Aberration is distinct from parallax, which is a change in the apparent position of a relatively nearby object...
    60 KB (8,016 words) - 18:41, 21 May 2024
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    330 ly. The second was the Hipparcos Input Catalogue (1993) with a trigonometric parallax of 5±4 mas, a distance of 200 pc or 650 ly. Given this uncertainty...
    174 KB (18,522 words) - 15:46, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gliese 570
    Librae. In the early 1990s, the European Hipparcos mission measured the parallax of components B and C, suggesting that the system was at a distance of...
    16 KB (1,203 words) - 14:49, 29 September 2024
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    J.T.; Hoffleit, E.D. (1995). "GCTP 3309". The General Catalogue of Trigonometric Stellar Parallaxes (Report) (4th ed.). Yale University Observatory....
    118 KB (11,170 words) - 05:17, 5 October 2024
  • Kelu-1 (category Astronomical X-ray sources)
    10 parsecs). But in 1999 preliminary trigonometric parallax of Kelu-1, measured under USNO faint-star parallax program, was obtained, and it turned out...
    25 KB (2,555 words) - 08:46, 14 February 2024
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