The CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) was selected on October 19, 2012, as the first small mission (S-mission) in the ESA Science Programme and...
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PublicaciónThe CHEOPS mission
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CharlaThe 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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CharlaThe CoRoT satellite and its surprising exoplanets
Up to now more than 400 extrasolar planets have been discovered, about 60 of them are transiting. Transiting extra-solar planets are particularly interesting...
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PublicaciónThe Earth as an object of astrophysical interest in the search for extrasolar planets
The potential discovery of Earth-like planets around other stars will need, apart from a sophisticated technological development, the design of techniques for...
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PublicaciónThe EChO science case
The discovery of almost two thousand exoplanets has revealed an unexpectedly diverse planet population. We see gas giants in few-day orbits, whole multi-planet...
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PublicaciónThe effect of stellar contamination on low-resolution transmission spectroscopy: needs identified by NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program Study Analysis Group 21
Study Analysis Group 21 (SAG21) of NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group was organized to study the effect of stellar contamination on space-based...
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CharlaThe 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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PublicaciónThe life of stars and their planets
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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PublicaciónThe 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...