Astrophysical: Exoplanet astronomy

  • News
    CARMENES exoplanet hunter scientific meeting
    The 19th scientific meeting of CARMENES, a collaboration of more than 100 scientists from 11 Spanish and German institutions aimed at studying extrasolar...
  • Publication
    Characterization of a Set of Small Planets with TESS and CHEOPS and an Analysis of Photometric Performance
    The radius valley carries implications for how the atmospheres of small planets form and evolve, but this feature is visible only with highly precise...
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    Didier Queloz, Physics Nobel Prize Winner 2019, Is Developing an Advanced Terrestrial Planet Hunter for the Isaac Newton Telescope
    The Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) and the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC) warmly congratulate James Peebles (Princeton University...
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    ESPRESSO and CARMENES discover two potentially habitable exo-Earths around a star near the Sun
    An international scientific team led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered the presence of two planets with Earth-like...
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    ESPRESSO confirms the nearest exo-Earth with unprecedented precision
    An international team, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias participated, as well as institutions in Spain, Italy, Portugal...
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    Evidence for Low-level Dynamical Excitation in Near-resonant Exoplanet Systems
    The geometries of near-resonant planetary systems offer a relatively pristine window into the initial conditions of exoplanet systems. Given that near-resonant...
  • Event
    ExoClock project
    From 6 to 9 June, IACTEC is hosting the consortium meeting of the European Space Agency's Ariel mission, dedicated to the characterisation of exoplanet...
  • Publication
    Free-floating Planet Mass Function from MOA-II 9 yr Survey toward the Galactic Bulge
    We present the first measurement of the mass function of free-floating planets (FFPs), or very wide orbit planets down to an Earth mass, from the MOA-II...
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    Gliese 12 b: A Temperate Earth-sized Planet at 12 pc Ideal for Atmospheric Transmission Spectroscopy
    Recent discoveries of Earth-sized planets transiting nearby M dwarfs have made it possible to characterize the atmospheres of terrestrial planets via follow-up...