Optical and near-infrared day-side emission from exoplanets
Observations of the secondary eclipse of an exoplanet, the moment the planet moves behind its star, allow us measure the radiation emitted by the exoplanet...
Partially ionized plasmas are found across the Universe in many different astrophysical environments. They constitute an essential ingredient of the solar...
PASS - a Permanent All Sky Survey for the detection of transits
A project to survey the entire visible sky for the presence of transits by extrasolar planets is presented. The experiment would consist of one or two fixed...
PLATO: The ESA Cosmic Vision planetray system characterizer
I present a general overview of the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) space mission. PLATO was approved by ESA’s Science Programme Committee...
Revealing planet migration and detection of terrestrial planets with improved spectroscopic tools
Spectroscopic observations of stars do not only provide us with valuable information about the stars themselves, but over the last years such observations have...
Rocky exoplanets and their host stars may have similar composition
Newly formed stars have protoplanetary discs around them. A fraction of the material in the disc condenses into planet-forming chunks, and the rest finally...
SARA SEAGER: “En 10 años tendremos la capacidad de encontrar vida en un exoplaneta”
Esta profesora, del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT), lidera el desarrollo de una nueva generación de telescopios espaciales para la detección de...
Scanning the population of planetary systems around stars with wide brown dwarf companions
Stars with wide brown dwarf companions that host exoplanets are extremely rare, as only four were reported to date. Different theories propose that planets can...
Search for weak periodic signals buried in noisy time series using modern Bayesian methods: secondary eclipses in Kepler light curves
Detection and characterisation of weak periodic signals from noisy time series is a common problem in many different fields of astrophysics. Here I detail one...