Astrophysical: Exoplanet detection methods

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    A planet in the process of formation found round the nearby young star AU Mic

    An international team of scientists, with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered a planet of the size of Neptune...

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    Astronomers find a nearby system of exoplanets with a potentially inhabitable world

    A team of astronomers, led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has found three new planets orbiting a star, one of which might have...

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    ESPRESSO confirms the nearest exo-Earth with unprecedented precision

    An international team, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias participated, as well as institutions in Spain, Italy, Portugal...

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    HD 191939: Three Sub-Neptunes Transiting a Sun-like Star Only 54 pc Away

    We present the discovery of three sub-Neptune-sized planets transiting the nearby and bright Sun-like star HD 191939 (TIC 269701147, TOI 1339), a Ks = 7.18 mag...

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    KELT-24b: A 5M <SUB>J</SUB> Planet on a 5.6 day Well-aligned Orbit around the Young V = 8.3 F-star HD 93148

    We present the discovery of KELT-24 b, a massive hot Jupiter orbiting a bright (V = 8.3 mag, K = 7.2 mag) young F-star with a period of 5.6 days. The host star...

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    SARA SEAGER: “En 10 años tendremos la capacidad de encontrar vida en un exoplaneta”
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    Sucessful test of new technology which should help to discover “other Earths”

    A scientific team, led by the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, confirms the high...

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    The CHEOPS mission measures the properties of one of the hottest and most extreme extrasolar planets

    CHEOPS, the new exoplanet mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating, has observed a...

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    The CHEOPS mission, in which the IAC is participating, observes its first exoplanets

    CHEOPS, the new exoplanet mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) in coordination with Switzerland, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...