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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NewsA planet in the process of formation found round the nearby young star AU Mic
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PublicationA Possible Alignment Between the Orbits of Planetary Systems and their Visual Binary Companions
Astronomers do not have a complete picture of the effects of wide-binary companions (semimajor axes greater than 100 au) on the formation and evolution of...
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NewsA study shows that “water worlds” could be as common as Earths
Research led by the University of Chicago and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has shown the existence of exoplanets with water and rock around...
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PublicationEvidence for Low-level Dynamical Excitation in Near-resonant Exoplanet Systems
The geometries of near-resonant planetary systems offer a relatively pristine window into the initial conditions of exoplanet systems. Given that near-resonant...
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PublicationHyades Member K2-136c: The Smallest Planet in an Open Cluster with a Precisely Measured Mass
K2-136 is a late-K dwarf (0.742 ± 0.039 M ⊙) in the Hyades open cluster with three known, transiting planets and an age of 650 ± 70 Myr. Analyzing K2 photometry...
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PublicationJoint Analysis of Multicolor Photometry: A New Approach to Constrain the Nature of Multiple-star Systems Hosting Exoplanet Candidates
We present a new method to assess the properties of transiting planet candidates by multicolor photometry. By analyzing multicolor transit/eclipse light curves...
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PublicationLimits on the Spin-Orbit Angle and Atmospheric Escape for the 22 Myr Old Planet AU Mic b
We obtained spectra of the pre-main-sequence star AU Microscopii during a transit of its Neptune-sized planet to investigate its orbit and atmosphere. We used...
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NewsThe synchronized dance of a system of six planets is revealed
An international collaboration, with participation by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has found a system of six exoplanets orbiting a central...
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PublicationThe TESS-Keck Survey. II. An Ultra-short-period Rocky Planet and Its Siblings Transiting the Galactic Thick-disk Star TOI-561
We report the discovery of TOI-561, a multiplanet system in the galactic thick disk that contains a rocky, ultra-short-period planet. This bright (V = 10.2)...