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transit: a standalone construct

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transit1 CONSTRUCTTransit (astronomy)HORROCKS · SOLAR TRANSIT

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Astronomy

the passage of one celestial body directly across the face of a larger one, seen as a dark dot.

A transit is the passage of one celestial body directly across the face of a larger one as seen from a given vantage point, so the smaller body appears as a dark dot crossing the bright disk. Jeremiah Horrocks recorded the first observed transit of Venus across the Sun in 1639 (published in 1662 as Venus in sole visa), timing the planet's slow crossing of the solar disk. Charbonneau, Brown, Latham, and Mayor's 2000 Detection of planetary transits across a Sun-like star applied the same geometry to a distant star, showing that the tiny periodic dimming as a planet crosses its host can reveal that planet. Here the word names a brief alignment of bodies in the sky, not an angle-measuring instrument on a tripod or a city's bus and rail network.[1][2]

Unit
One passage of a body across another's disk, bounded by first and last contact
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Observed and timed from the contacts of the crossing, or detected as the periodic dip in a star's brightness while a planet crosses it

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References

  1. Horrocks, J. (1662). Venus in sole visa. In J. Hevelius, Mercurius in sole visus Gedani. Danzig.
  2. Charbonneau, D., Brown, T. M., Latham, D. W., & Mayor, M. (2000). Detection of planetary transits across a Sun-like star. The Astrophysical Journal, 529(1), L45–L48. https://doi.org/10.1086/312457

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