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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NewsThe CHEOPS mission measures the properties of one of the hottest and most extreme extrasolar planets
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NewsThe 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)...
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TalkThe CoRoT exoplanet program: status & results
The CoRoT space mission aims at detecting planets with the transit method. In operation for more than 6 years, the instrument has monitored a couple of ten...
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TalkThe CoRoT satellite and its surprising exoplanets
Up to now more than 400 extrasolar planets have been discovered, about 60 of them are transiting. Transiting extra-solar planets are particularly interesting...
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NewsThe densest “Neptune” ever observed
An international team of researchers, with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has discovered an extremely dense Neptune-sized planet...
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PublicationThe Earth as an object of astrophysical interest in the search for extrasolar planets
The potential discovery of Earth-like planets around other stars will need, apart from a sophisticated technological development, the design of techniques for...
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PublicationThe EChO science case
The discovery of almost two thousand exoplanets has revealed an unexpectedly diverse planet population. We see gas giants in few-day orbits, whole multi-planet...
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PublicationThe effect of stellar contamination on low-resolution transmission spectroscopy: needs identified by NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program Study Analysis Group 21
Study Analysis Group 21 (SAG21) of NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program Analysis Group was organized to study the effect of stellar contamination on space-based...
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NewsThe European Research Council has awarded one of its prestigious “ERC Advanced Grants” to IAC’s SUBSTELLAR project
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded an ERC Advanced Grant, funding for the development of research projects at the frontiers of knowledge, to the...