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Delrez, Laetitia; Gillon, Michaël.; Queloz, Didier; Demory, Brice-Olivier; Almleaky, Yaseen; de Wit, Julien; Jehin, Emmanuël.; Triaud, Amaury H. M. J.; Barkaoui, Khalid; Burdanov, Artem; Burgasser, Adam J.; Ducrot, Elsa; McCormac, James; Murray, Catriona; Silva Fernandes, Catarina; Sohy, Sandrine; Thompson, Samantha J.; Van Grootel, Valérie; Alonso, R.; Benkhaldoun, Zouhair; Rebolo, R.
Bibliographical reference
Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 10700, id. 107001I 21 pp. (2018).
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2018
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Description
We present here SPECULOOS, a new exoplanet transit search based on a
network of 1m-class robotic telescopes targeting the 1200 ultracool
(spectral type M7 and later) dwarfs bright enough in the infrared (K-mag
<= 12.5) to possibly enable the atmospheric characterization of
temperate terrestrial planets with next-generation facilities like the
James Webb Space Telescope. The ultimate goals of the project are to
reveal the frequency of temperate terrestrial planets around the
lowest-mass stars and brown dwarfs, to probe the diversity of their bulk
compositions, atmospheres and surface conditions, and to assess their
potential habitability.
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The search for life in the universe has been driven by recent discoveries of planets around other stars (known as exoplanets), becoming one of the most active fields in modern astrophysics. The growing number of new exoplanets discovered in recent years and the recent advance on the study of their atmospheres are not only providing new valuable
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