Astrophysical: Exoplanet astronomy

  • 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...
  • News
    Gliese 486 b: a Rosetta stone for the study of exoplanets
    An international scientific team , with the participation of the Institutito de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has measured the mass and radius of an Earth-like...
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    Ground-based photometric follow-up for exoplanet detections with the PLATO mission
    Detections of transiting planets from the upcoming PLATO mission are expected to face significant contamination from contaminating eclipsing binaries, resulting...
  • News
    IAC discovers a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a nearby red dwarf
    An international team, led by a student from Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has detected a super-Earth orbiting in the habitable zone of GJ 3998, a...
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    Identification of the Top TESS Objects of Interest for Atmospheric Characterization of Transiting Exoplanets with JWST
    JWST has ushered in an era of unprecedented ability to characterize exoplanetary atmospheres. While there are over 5000 confirmed planets, more than 4000...
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    James Webb telescope reveals an exoplanet atmosphere as never seen before
    NASA's space telescope has produced a molecular and chemical portrait of the atmospheric constituents of exoplanet WASP-39 b, a Saturn-sized behemoth that orbit...
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    KELT-24b: A 5M <SUB>J</SUB> Planet on a 5.6 day Well-aligned Orbit around the Young V = 8.3 F-star HD 93148
    We present the discovery of KELT-24 b, a massive hot Jupiter orbiting a bright (V = 8.3 mag, K = 7.2 mag) young F-star with a period of 5.6 days. The host star...