We lack a reliable scenario for the formation and evolution of stars and their planetary systems, involving key factors such as magnetic fields and turbulence...
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PublicationThe life of stars and their planets
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PublicationThe Multiplanet System TOI-421
We report the discovery of a warm Neptune and a hot sub-Neptune transiting TOI-421 (BD-14 1137, TIC 94986319), a bright (V = 9.9) G9 dwarf star in a visual...
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PublicationThe Occurrence of Rocky Habitable-zone Planets around Solar-like Stars from Kepler Data
We present the occurrence rates for rocky planets in the habitable zones (HZs) of main-sequence dwarf stars based on the Kepler DR25 planet candidate catalog...
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PublicationThe PLATO 1.0 mission
PLATO 2.0 has recently been selected for ESA's M3 launch opportunity (2022/24). Providing accurate key planet parameters (radius, mass, density and age) in...
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TalkThe Search for Earth 2.0
The discovery and characterization of exoplanets have the potential to offer the world one of the most impactful findings ever in the history of astronomy?the...
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PublicationThe searches for Earth-like planets
Several techniques are achieving nowadays the precision levels required to detect few-Earth-mass planets, but still a fruitful path needs to be explored in...
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TalkThe SuperWASP follow-up telescope
SuperWASP is the UK's leading extra-solar planet detection program, having detected 22 of the 52 transiting planets known to date. This stems from the...
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PublicationThe TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. I. Ten TESS Planets
Hot Jupiters-short-period giant planets-were the first extrasolar planets to be discovered, but many questions about their origin remain. NASA's Transiting...
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PublicationThe TESS Grand Unified Hot Jupiter Survey. II. Twenty New Giant Planets
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission promises to improve our understanding of hot Jupiters by providing an all-sky, magnitude-limited...