Astrofísicas: Eclipses

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    Supereclipse
    El próximo día 21 de enero, la Luna volverá a cruzar la sombra de la Tierra, adquiriendo el resplandor cobrizo tan característico de los eclipses lunares. El...
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    System parameters of three short-period cataclysmic variable stars
    Using photometric ULTRACAM observations of three new short-period cataclysmic variables (CVs), we model the primary eclipse light curves to extract the orbital...
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    The centre-to-limb variations of solar Fraunhofer lines imprinted upon lunar eclipse spectra. Implications for exoplanet transit observations
    The atmospheres of exoplanets are commonly studied by observing the transit of the planet passing in front of its parent star. The obscuration of part of the...
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    The GTC exoplanet transit spectroscopy survey. III. No asymmetries in the transit of CoRoT-29b
    Context. The launch of the exoplanet space missions obtaining exquisite photometry from space has resulted in the discovery of thousands of planetary systems...
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    The Mass of the Neutron Star in CYG X-2 (V1341 CYG)
    Cygnus X-2 is one of the brightest and longest known X-ray sources. We present high resolution optical spectroscopy of Cyg X-2 obtained over 4 years which gives...
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    The stable climate of KELT-9b,★
    Even among the most irradiated gas giants, so-called ultra-hot Jupiters, KELT-9b stands out as the hottest planet thus far discovered with a dayside temperature...
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    The TEP Network - A Search for Transits of Extrasolar Planets: Observations of CM Draconis in 1994
    The TEP (Transits of Extrasolar Planets) network undertakes the only current search for terrestrial sized planets around MS-Stars. TEP was formed in 1994 to...
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    Transit timing variation and transmission spectroscopy analyses of the hot Neptune GJ3470b
    GJ3470b is a hot Neptune exoplanet orbiting an M dwarf and the first sub-Jovian planet to exhibit Rayleigh scattering. We present transit timing variation (TTV)...
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    Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission⋆. XXVIII. CoRoT-33b, an object in the brown dwarf desert with 2:3 commensurability with its host star
    We report the detection of a rare transiting brown dwarf with a mass of 59 MJup and radius of 1.1 RJup around the metal-rich, [Fe/H] = +0.44, G9V star CoRoT-33...