Astrophysical: Exoplanets

  • Talk
    Hunting exoplanets with the ESPRESSO spectrograph
    The search for extrasolar planets is one of the fastest-growing fields of astronomy. This rapid growth was both made possible by the development of...
  • Publication
    Hyades Member K2-136c: The Smallest Planet in an Open Cluster with a Precisely Measured Mass
    K2-136 is a late-K dwarf (0.742 ± 0.039 M ⊙) in the Hyades open cluster with three known, transiting planets and an age of 650 ± 70 Myr. Analyzing K2 photometry...
  • 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...
  • Publication
    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...
  • Gallery
    Inauguration of the ARTEMIS telescope
    Images of 20 June at the IAC headquarters and at the Teide Observatory, during the inauguration of the ARTEMIS telescope.
  • Talk
    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...
  • News
    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...
  • Talk
    Kyoto 3.8m segmented telescope project
    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...
  • Talk
    Light elements in stars with exoplanets
    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...