Astrophysical: Exoplanets

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    CARMENES exoplanet hunter scientific meeting
    The 19th scientific meeting of CARMENES, a collaboration of more than 100 scientists from 11 Spanish and German institutions aimed at studying extrasolar...
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    CARMENES: towards the detection of exoearths
    CARMENES (Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exoearths with Near-infrared and optical Échelle Spectrographs) is a next-generation instrument...
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    Chemical Properties of Stars with Giant Planets
    In this paper we review the current situation regarding the study of the metallicity-giant planet connection. We show that planet-host stars are more metal-rich...
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    CHEOPS unexpectedly detects a unique exoplanet
    The exoplanet satellite hunter CHEOPS of the European Space Agency (ESA), in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating along with...
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    Company for the Ultra-high Density, Ultra-short Period Sub-Earth GJ 367 b: Discovery of Two Additional Low-mass Planets at 11.5 and 34 Days
    GJ 367 is a bright (V ≈ 10.2) M1 V star that has been recently found to host a transiting ultra-short period sub-Earth on a 7.7 hr orbit. With the aim of...
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    Concepts for future missions to search for technosignatures
    New and unique opportunities now exist to look for technosignatures (TS) beyond traditional SETI radio searches, motivated by tremendous advances in exoplanet...
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    CoRoT-9b, a Jupiter-like transiting giant planet
    Among the over 450 known exoplanets, the planets that transit their central star stand out, due to the wealth of information that can be gained about both...
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    Correcting Exoplanet Transmission Spectra for Stellar Activity with an Optimized Retrieval Framework
    The chromatic contamination that arises from photospheric heterogeneities, e.g., spots and faculae on the host star presents a significant noise source for...
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    Detailed Chemical Abundances for a Benchmark Sample of M Dwarfs from the APOGEE Survey
    Individual chemical abundances for 14 elements (C, O, Na, Mg, Al, Si, K, Ca, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, and Ni) are derived for a sample of M dwarfs using high...