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- Victoria, British Columbia,
Research Centre: Advanced Electronics and Photonics, Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nanotechnology
Industry: Astronomy, Space technology
- Ottawa, Ontario
Research Centre: Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics
Industry: Astronomy
- Ottawa, Ontario
Research Centre: Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics
An international team of researchers have found an infrequent variation in the brightness of a forming star. This 18-month recurring twinkle is not only an unexpected phenomenon for scientists, but its repeated behavior suggests the presence of a hidden planet. This discovery is an early win for the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) Transient Survey, just one-and-a-half years into its three-year mandate to monitor eight galactic stellar nurseries for variations in the brightness of forming stars. This novel study is critical to understanding how stars and planets are assembled. The survey is led by Doug Johnstone, Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada and Greg Herczeg, Professor at Peking University (China), and is supported by an international team of astronomers from Canada, China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and the United Kingdom.
- Victoria, British Columbia
Research Centre: Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics