We evaluate the transit detection capabilities of the STARE experiment in a real observing run. To this end, artificial transits have been added to 480 light...
The Starlight Initiative brings a new view of the night sky and of its value enhancement, claiming the access to starlight as a scientific, environmental, and...
STARS - Seismic Telescope for Astrophysical Research from Space. Report on the phase A study.
STARS is an asteroseismology mission, which, through the acquisition of very accurate light curves, will detect oscillations in a wide variety of stars. This...
Dwarf galaxies offer an opportunity to understand the properties of low metallicity star formation both today and at the earliest times at the epoch of the...
Stars with and without planets: Where do they come from?
A long and thorough investigation of chemical abundances of planet-hosting stars that lasted for more than a decade has finally beared fruit. We explore a...
Starting the first transit survey from space with the CoRoT satellite
Successfully launched on 27 December 2006 CoRoT started, about one month later, the first photometric survey aimed at detecting planetary transits from space...