Astrophysical: Exoplanet astronomy

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    A “rebellious” exoplanet orbits in the opposite direction of its star
    Thanks to the NIRPS infrared spectrograph, built with the involvement of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias , an international team led by the University...
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    An Aligned Sub-Neptune Revealed with MAROON-X and a Tendency Toward Alignment for Small Planets
    We present the Rossiter–McLaughlin measurement of the sub-Neptune TOI-1759A b with MAROON-X. A joint analysis with MuSCAT3 photometry and nine additional TESS...
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    Asteroseismology of iota Draconis and Discovery of an Additional Long-period Companion
    Giant stars as known exoplanet hosts are relatively rare due to the potential challenges in acquiring precision radial velocities and the small predicted...
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    Astronomers discover an ultra-light and super-fast sub-Earth orbiting a red dwarf
    An international team, including researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered an extrasolar planet with half the mass of the...
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    Astronomers find a nearby system of exoplanets with a potentially inhabitable world
    A team of astronomers, led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has found three new planets orbiting a star, one of which might have...
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    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...
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    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...