The discovery of new planets beyond our solar system, in particular the detection and characterization of other habitable planets similar to the Earth, is a...
Exploration of the Solar System by ESA 2: European exploration of Mars
Series: XXVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics: Solar System Exploration Topic: Exploration of the Solar System by the European Space Agency...
Exploring the diversity of exoplanet atmospheres from the ground with the ACCESS Survey
One of the most exciting possibilities enabled by transiting exoplanets is to measure their atmospheric properties through the technique of transmission...
Exploring the Outer Solar System 1: TNOs: a brief history, dynamical structure, and characteristics of its inhabitants
Series: XXVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics: Solar System Exploration Topic: Exploring the Outer Solar System Lecture 1: TNOs: a brief history...
Exploring the Outer Solar System 2: James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) - Characterizing the outer Solar System
Series: XXVIII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics: Solar System Exploration Topic: Exploring the Outer Solar System Lecture 2: James Webb Space...
Extrasolar Planets: from stellar activity to the new generation of planet-hunting spectrographs
As of today, we know now more than 3000 planets orbiting other stars. The detection of planets through radial velocity gathers special attention in the world of...
Finding extra-solar planets in the presence of stellar jitter
The RV method is responsible for discovering the majority of planets that orbit stars other than our Sun. However, one problem with this technique is that...
Iapetus and Eris: two intriguing cases related to volatile presence on the surface of icy objects in the solar system
The materials from which the bodies in the outer solar system accreted were rich in volatile ices; Pluto and Neptune’s satellite Triton have long been known to...