Breakthrough Starshot is an initiative by the Breakthrough Foundation to prove ultra-fast ultra-light nanospacecraft can be launched by laser radiation pressure...
Stellar activity blurring our insight into the properties of exoplanets
Stellar magnetic activity generates astrophysical noise on the collected data in the quest for what might be called Earth 2.0. This noise poses obstacles and...
Stellar structure and exoplanet studies in the Kepler and SONG era
NASA's Kepler Satellite was successfully launched into space on 6 March 2009. The goal of this mission is ambitious and exciting. Using Kepler we expect to...
Strategies to recognize false alarms in transit experiments: experiences from the STARE project
In this contribution, we study the different stellar configurations that can produce signals resembling those produced by a transiting planet. We list several...
Study of the planetary system HD 46375 with CoRoT and ground-based support
At the end of 2008, on ideas of teams from the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur (OCA) and IAC, the CoRoT satellite observed the star HD 46375, known to host a non...
Terrestrial- and Neptune-mass Free-Floating Planet Candidates from the MOA-II 9 yr Galactic Bulge Survey
We report the discoveries of low-mass free-floating planet (FFP) candidates from the analysis of 2006-2014 MOA-II Galactic bulge survey data. In this data set...
TESS Asteroseismic Analysis of HD 76920: The Giant Star Hosting an Extremely Eccentric Exoplanet
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission searches for new exoplanets. The observing strategy of TESS results in high-precision photometry of...
TESS Asteroseismology of the Known Red-giant Host Stars HD 212771 and HD 203949
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is performing a near all-sky survey for planets that transit bright stars. In addition, its excellent...
TESS Delivers Five New Hot Giant Planets Orbiting Bright Stars from the Full-frame Images
We present the discovery and characterization of five hot and warm Jupiters—TOI-628 b (TIC 281408474; HD 288842), TOI-640 b (TIC 147977348), TOI-1333 b (TIC...