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Partially Ionized Plasmas in Astrophysics
Partially ionized plasmas are found across the Universe in many different astrophysical environments. They constitute an essential ingredient of the solar...
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PublicationPASS - a Permanent All Sky Survey for the detection of transitsA project to survey the entire visible sky for the presence of transits by extrasolar planets is presented. The experiment would consist of one or two fixed...
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TalkPLATO: The ESA Cosmic Vision planetray system characterizerI present a general overview of the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) space mission. PLATO was approved by ESA’s Science Programme Committee...
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NewsResearch on exoplanets and the Solar System comes to the classroom with the IAC's PETeR projectThe IAC's Educational Project with Robotic Telescopes (PETeR) offers a new edition of its online teacher training entitled ‘ Investigate the Universe with...
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TalkRevealing planet migration and detection of terrestrial planets with improved spectroscopic toolsSpectroscopic observations of stars do not only provide us with valuable information about the stars themselves, but over the last years such observations have...
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NewsRocky exoplanets and their host stars may have similar compositionNewly formed stars have protoplanetary discs around them. A fraction of the material in the disc condenses into planet-forming chunks, and the rest finally...
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NewsSARA SEAGER: “En 10 años tendremos la capacidad de encontrar vida en un exoplaneta”Esta profesora, del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT), lidera el desarrollo de una nueva generación de telescopios espaciales para la detección de...
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PublicationScanning the population of planetary systems around stars with wide brown dwarf companionsStars with wide brown dwarf companions that host exoplanets are extremely rare, as only four were reported to date. Different theories propose that planets can...
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TalkSearch for weak periodic signals buried in noisy time series using modern Bayesian methods: secondary eclipses in Kepler light curvesDetection and characterisation of weak periodic signals from noisy time series is a common problem in many different fields of astrophysics. Here I detail one...