Planetary transits have proven to be one of the most efficient means of finding planets outside the Solar system, counting over 2500 exoplanet discoveries...
Tests, lessons, and successes of exoplanet transit observations with the GTC
Our group is presently conducting an observational campaign, using the 10-meter Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), to obtain the transmission spectrum of several...
The discovery of earth-like planets is nowadays the main goal of the entire exoplanets field. Despite the recent success of transiting programs, the measurement...
(1) The search for starlight reflected from hot Jupiters (2) Distribución espacial de las poblaciones estelares y del medio interestelar en las galaxias HII
(1) The search for starlight reflected from hot Jupiters. Dr. Florian Rodler To date, more than 300 extrasolar planets have been found, and their atmospheres...
A GTC survey of exoplanet atmosphere with transmission spectroscopy
Transmission spectroscopy has been a powerful tool to decipher the atmospheric compositions of transiting exoplanets. The recent HST survey has shown that...
A possible signature of terrestrial planet formation in the chemical composition of solar twins
It has been recently shown that the chemical composition of the Sun is anomalous when compared to most nearby stars of very similar fundamental parameters, so...
Airglow in the atmospheres of the terrestrial planets
There is a multitude of photochemical processes occurring in a planet's atmosphere. Some of these processes occur with an excess of energy and lead to products...
Alta Resolución Espectral (ARES): ¿Qué distingue a estos instrumentos?
En los ultimos años hemos visto el desarrollo de instrumentación para la búsqueda de exoplanetas por el método de la Velocidad Radial. La tendencia es que cada...
This question is important because a large fraction of planetary nebulae (about 80%) are bipolar or elliptical rather than spherically symmetric. Modern...