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Bedding TR Mosser B Huber D Montalbán J Beck P Christensen-Dalsgaard J Elsworth YP García RA Miglio A Stello D White TR De Ridder J Hekker S Aerts C Barban C Belkacem K Broomhall AM Brown TM Buzasi DL Carrier F Chaplin WJ Di Mauro MP Dupret MA Frandsen S Gilliland RL Goupil MJ Jenkins JM Kallinger T Kawaler S Kjeldsen H Mathur S Noels A Aguirre VS Ventura P 《Nature》2011,471(7340):608-611
Red giants are evolved stars that have exhausted the supply of hydrogen in their cores and instead burn hydrogen in a surrounding shell. Once a red giant is sufficiently evolved, the helium in the core also undergoes fusion. Outstanding issues in our understanding of red giants include uncertainties in the amount of mass lost at the surface before helium ignition and the amount of internal mixing from rotation and other processes. Progress is hampered by our inability to distinguish between red giants burning helium in the core and those still only burning hydrogen in a shell. Asteroseismology offers a way forward, being a powerful tool for probing the internal structures of stars using their natural oscillation frequencies. Here we report observations of gravity-mode period spacings in red giants that permit a distinction between evolutionary stages to be made. We use high-precision photometry obtained by the Kepler spacecraft over more than a year to measure oscillations in several hundred red giants. We find many stars whose dipole modes show sequences with approximately regular period spacings. These stars fall into two clear groups, allowing us to distinguish unambiguously between hydrogen-shell-burning stars (period spacing mostly ~ 50 seconds) and those that are also burning helium (period spacing ~ 100 to 300 seconds). 相似文献
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Lissauer JJ Fabrycky DC Ford EB Borucki WJ Fressin F Marcy GW Orosz JA Rowe JF Torres G Welsh WF Batalha NM Bryson ST Buchhave LA Caldwell DA Carter JA Charbonneau D Christiansen JL Cochran WD Desert JM Dunham EW Fanelli MN Fortney JJ Gautier TN Geary JC Gilliland RL Haas MR Hall JR Holman MJ Koch DG Latham DW Lopez E McCauliff S Miller N Morehead RC Quintana EV Ragozzine D Sasselov D Short DR Steffen JH 《Nature》2011,470(7332):53-58
When an extrasolar planet passes in front of (transits) its star, its radius can be measured from the decrease in starlight and its orbital period from the time between transits. Multiple planets transiting the same star reveal much more: period ratios determine stability and dynamics, mutual gravitational interactions reflect planet masses and orbital shapes, and the fraction of transiting planets observed as multiples has implications for the planarity of planetary systems. But few stars have more than one known transiting planet, and none has more than three. Here we report Kepler spacecraft observations of a single Sun-like star, which we call Kepler-11, that reveal six transiting planets, five with orbital periods between 10 and 47?days and a sixth planet with a longer period. The five inner planets are among the smallest for which mass and size have both been measured, and these measurements imply substantial envelopes of light gases. The degree of coplanarity and proximity of the planetary orbits imply energy dissipation near the end of planet formation. 相似文献
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K C Sahu S Casertano M Livio R L Gilliland N Panagia M D Albrow M Potter 《Nature》2001,411(6841):1022-1024
Gravitational microlensing offers a means of determining directly the masses of objects ranging from planets to stars, provided that the distances and motions of the lenses and sources can be determined. A globular cluster observed against the dense stellar field of the Galactic bulge presents ideal conditions for such observations because the probability of lensing is high and the distances and kinematics of the lenses and sources are well constrained. The abundance of low-mass objects in a globular cluster is of particular interest, because it may be representative of the very early stages of star formation in the Universe, and therefore indicative of the amount of dark baryonic matter in such clusters. Here we report a microlensing event associated with the globular cluster M22. We determine the mass of the lens to be 0.13(+0.03)(-0.02) solar masses. We have also detected six events that are unresolved in time. If these are also microlensing events, they imply that a non-negligible fraction of the cluster mass resides in the form of free-floating planetary-mass objects. 相似文献
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Haploinsufficiency of CBFA2 causes familial thrombocytopenia with propensity to develop acute myelogenous leukaemia. 总被引:21,自引:0,他引:21
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Use of 2 cattle carcass areas was determined for radio-collared coyotes ( Canis latrans ) in northwest Texas from January 1999 to January 2000. When 0-3 dead cattle were located at the carcass areas, resident and transient coyotes visited the carcass areas 4% and 8% of the time, respectively. However, when 30-35 dead cattle were located at 1 carcass area due to a disease epizootic, resident and transient coyotes had increased visitation rates of 19% and 63%, respectively. Resident coyotes traveled as far as 12.2 km from the center of their home ranges, suggesting that carcass areas influenced residents over a 468-km 2 area. Transient coyotes traveled from as far as 20.5 km away, suggesting that carcass areas influenced transients over a 1320-km 2 area. Our results indicate that carcass areas can influence coyotes over large areas and may concentrate both resident and transient coyotes in relatively small areas, at least for short periods. 相似文献
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Welsh WF Orosz JA Carter JA Fabrycky DC Ford EB Lissauer JJ Prša A Quinn SN Ragozzine D Short DR Torres G Winn JN Doyle LR Barclay T Batalha N Bloemen S Brugamyer E Buchhave LA Caldwell C Caldwell DA Christiansen JL Ciardi DR Cochran WD Endl M Fortney JJ Gautier TN Gilliland RL Haas MR Hall JR Holman MJ Howard AW Howell SB Isaacson H Jenkins JM Klaus TC Latham DW Li J Marcy GW Mazeh T Quintana EV Robertson P Shporer A Steffen JH Windmiller G Koch DG Borucki WJ 《Nature》2012,481(7382):475-479
Most Sun-like stars in the Galaxy reside in gravitationally bound pairs of stars (binaries). Although long anticipated, the existence of a 'circumbinary planet' orbiting such a pair of normal stars was not definitively established until the discovery of the planet transiting (that is, passing in front of) Kepler-16. Questions remained, however, about the prevalence of circumbinary planets and their range of orbital and physical properties. Here we report two additional transiting circumbinary planets: Kepler-34 (AB)b and Kepler-35 (AB)b, referred to here as Kepler-34 b and Kepler-35 b, respectively. Each is a low-density gas-giant planet on an orbit closely aligned with that of its parent stars. Kepler-34 b orbits two Sun-like stars every 289?days, whereas Kepler-35 b orbits a pair of smaller stars (89% and 81% of the Sun's mass) every 131?days. The planets experience large multi-periodic variations in incident stellar radiation arising from the orbital motion of the stars. The observed rate of circumbinary planets in our sample implies that more than ~1% of close binary stars have giant planets in nearly coplanar orbits, yielding a Galactic population of at least several million. 相似文献
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Transformation from committed progenitor to leukaemia stem cell initiated by MLL-AF9 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Krivtsov AV Twomey D Feng Z Stubbs MC Wang Y Faber J Levine JE Wang J Hahn WC Gilliland DG Golub TR Armstrong SA 《Nature》2006,442(7104):818-822
Leukaemias and other cancers possess a rare population of cells capable of the limitless self-renewal necessary for cancer initiation and maintenance. Eradication of these cancer stem cells is probably a critical part of any successful anti-cancer therapy, and may explain why conventional cancer therapies are often effective in reducing tumour burden, but are only rarely curative. Given that both normal and cancer stem cells are capable of self-renewal, the extent to which cancer stem cells resemble normal tissue stem cells is a critical issue if targeted therapies are to be developed. However, it remains unclear whether cancer stem cells must be phenotypically similar to normal tissue stem cells or whether they can retain the identity of committed progenitors. Here we show that leukaemia stem cells (LSC) can maintain the global identity of the progenitor from which they arose while activating a limited stem-cell- or self-renewal-associated programme. We isolated LSC from leukaemias initiated in committed granulocyte macrophage progenitors through introduction of the MLL-AF9 fusion protein encoded by the t(9;11)(p22;q23). The LSC were capable of transferring leukaemia to secondary recipient mice when only four cells were transferred, and possessed an immunophenotype and global gene expression profile very similar to that of normal granulocyte macrophage progenitors. However, a subset of genes highly expressed in normal haematopoietic stem cells was re-activated in LSC. LSC can thus be generated from committed progenitors without widespread reprogramming of gene expression, and a leukaemia self-renewal-associated signature is activated in the process. Our findings define progression from normal progenitor to cancer stem cell, and suggest that targeting a self-renewal programme expressed in an abnormal context may be possible. 相似文献
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Many desert perennials are long-lived, but there are few data on ages or population structures of desert plants. We used 2 methods to estimate ages of a population of Yucca brevifolia (Joshua tree) in southwestern Utah from a 14-year census of plant sizes. Plant height at the 1st census ranged from 0.08 m to 6.0 m, and trees grew in height at a mean rate of 3.75 cm ? yr -1 . Plants also increased slowly in basal diameter (0.142 cm ? yr -1 ) and branch length (0.024 m ? yr -1 ), but basal diameter varied greatly from year to year, with many plants decreasing in diameter between sequential censuses. Forms of a nonlinear growth equation (the Richards function) did not fit the data on growth in height, but a simple linear relationship fit the data well. Using height as a linear predictor of age, we estimated that ages of a sample of 69 Joshua trees ranged from 300 years old, with 75% of the trees between 20 and 100 years and 11% over 150 years old. These data support the assumption that Joshua trees are indeed long-lived. 相似文献