Astrophysical: Exoplanets

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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Starshot; the first interstellar probe
    Breakthrough Starshot is an initiative by the Breakthrough Foundation to prove ultra-fast ultra-light nanospacecraft can be launched by laser radiation pressure...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Study of the planetary system HD 46375 with CoRoT and ground-based support
    At the end of 2008, on ideas of teams from the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur (OCA) and IAC, the CoRoT satellite observed the star HD 46375, known to host a non...
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    Terrestrial- and Neptune-mass Free-Floating Planet Candidates from the MOA-II 9 yr Galactic Bulge Survey
    We report the discoveries of low-mass free-floating planet (FFP) candidates from the analysis of 2006-2014 MOA-II Galactic bulge survey data. In this data set...