Talk type: Planetary systems

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    Sniffing Alien Atmospheres: Exoplanet spectrophotometry (from ground-, airborne- and space-based observatories)
    In my presentation I will give a short introduction to the science of extrasolar planets, in particular the technique of transit, eclipse and phasecurve spectro...
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    Spectra of Transiting Extrasolar Planets: Past, Present, and Future
    We review observations of a representative set of extrasolar planets that transit their stars, concentrating on those discovered and characterized by the XO...
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    Spitzer Space Telescope studies of primitive solar system objects
    The Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on Spitzer has observed more than 120 asteroids, several Centaurs and Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs), and satellites of the giant...
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    Stellar activity blurring our insight into the properties of exoplanets
    Stellar magnetic activity generates astrophysical noise on the collected data in the quest for what might be called Earth 2.0. This noise poses obstacles and...
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    Study of the planetary system HD 46375 with CoRoT and ground-based support
    At the end of 2008, on ideas of teams from the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur (OCA) and IAC, the CoRoT satellite observed the star HD 46375, known to host a non...
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    The CoRoT exoplanet program: status & results
    The CoRoT space mission aims at detecting planets with the transit method. In operation for more than 6 years, the instrument has monitored a couple of ten...
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    The exo-planet obliquity as a fingerprint of planetary formation and evolution
    The angle between the stellar spin axis and the orbital planetary angular momentum of a planet, also referred to as the obliquity of the system, is a matter of...
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    The 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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    The Sigma Orionis cluster: from 20 Msun to free-floating planets
    For the first time, we present the low-mass function of the entire young star cluster Sigma Orionis (3 Myr, 352 pc, no internal extinction) from 0.25 Msun...