Introduction of MuSCAT for exoplanet studies and its initial results
NASA's Kepler mission has made a revolution in discovering a large number of transiting exoplanets. Moreover K2, TESS, and PLATO will provide more transiting...
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...
The 3.8m optical and infrared telescope, which is Japan's first segmented mirror telescope, is now being constructed using the world's first super high...
The surface abundance of lithium on the Sun is 140 times less than protosolar, yet the temperature at the base of the surface convective zone is not hot enough...
Living with a red dwarf: X-ray and UV emissions of red dwarf stars and effects on hosted planets and their suitability for life
Red Dwarf (dM) stars are the most numerous stars in our Galaxy. These faint, cool, long-lived, and low mass stars make up > 80% of all stars in the Universe...
Atmospheric compositions can provide powerful diagnostics of formation and migration histories of planetary systems. In this talk, I will present the results of...
Massive collision in the planetary system Kepler 107
Two of the planets which are orbiting the star Kepler 107 could be the result of an impact similar to that which affected the Earth to produce the Moon. An...
The main goal of the MASTER-Net project is to produce a unique fast sky survey with all sky observed over a single night down to a limiting magnitude of 21...