In a recent preprint, Pepper et al. (2002) evaluate the sensitivity of photon-noise limited transit searches for habitable planets. They conclude that these...
Simulations Predicting the Ability of Multi-color Simultaneous Photometry to Distinguish TESS Candidate Exoplanets from False Positives
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is currently concluding its 2 yr primary science mission searching 85% of the sky for transiting exoplanets...
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...
Spectroscopic analysis of a large sample of L and T dwarfs.
A comprehensive understanding of sub-stellar objects (brown dwarfs and extrasolar giant planets) and their population characteristics (e.g. IMF, formation...
SPECULOOS Northern Observatory: Searching for Red Worlds in the Northern Skies
SPECULOOS is a ground-based transit survey consisting of six identical 1 m robotic telescopes. The immediate goal of the project is to detect temperate...
Breakthrough Starshot is an initiative by the Breakthrough Foundation to prove ultra-fast ultra-light nanospacecraft can be launched by laser radiation pressure...
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...
Stellar structure and exoplanet studies in the Kepler and SONG era
NASA's Kepler Satellite was successfully launched into space on 6 March 2009. The goal of this mission is ambitious and exciting. Using Kepler we expect to...
Strategies to recognize false alarms in transit experiments: experiences from the STARE project
In this contribution, we study the different stellar configurations that can produce signals resembling those produced by a transiting planet. We list several...