Astrophysical: Eclipses

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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...
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    Two warm Neptunes transiting HIP 9618 revealed by TESS and Cheops
    HIP 9618 (HD 12572, TOI-1471, TIC 306263608) is a bright (G = 9.0 mag) solar analogue. TESS photometry revealed the star to have two candidate planets with...
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    Using the Rossiter–McLaughlin Effect to Observe the Transmission Spectrum of Earth’s Atmosphere
    Due to stellar rotation, the observed radial velocity of a star varies during the transit of a planet across its surface, a phenomenon known as the Rossiter...
  • News
    “Supereclipse”
    On January 21st the Moon will again pass through the Earth0s shadow, acquiring the coppery glow characteristic of lunar eclipses. The eclipse will be visible...