Discoveries using the telescopes on Mauna Kea

[TomK]

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Originally posted by airportparking

http://phys.org/news/2016-09-thy-star-planet.html

Speckle interferometry

Here ya go SBH et. all.

With the confirmation that no other companion star resides in the vicinity of TRAPPIST-1, the research team's result validates not only that transiting planets are responsible for the periodic dips seen in the star's brightness but that they are indeed Earth-size and may likely to be rocky worlds.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-09-thy-star-planet.html#jCp

The space-based observations from the Kepler spacecraft will provide extremely precise measurements of the planet transit shapes allowing for more refined radius and orbital period determination. Noting variations in the mid-time of the transit events can also help astronomers determine the planet masses. Additionally, the new observations will be searched for more transiting planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system.

One of the new instruments will be delivered this fall to the 3.5-meter WIYN telescope located at Kitt Peak National Observatory outside of Tucson, Arizona, where it will be used by the NN_EXPLORE guest observer research program. The other is being developed for the Gemini Observatory North telescope located on Mauna Kea in Hawaii

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-09-thy-star-planet.html#jCp

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I have no idea why you posted that, it has nothing to do with Puna or Hawaii. However, to try and get this back on topic, the earth-like planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1 were confirmed by UKIRT, on Mauna Kea, a few months ago.

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/promising-wo...dwarf-star

And if it's "speckle interferometry" that dazzled you, I hope you understand this is a technique that is several decades old.

https://www.osapublishing.org/josa/abstr...56-10-1372