The atmospheres of exoplanets are commonly studied by observing the transit of the planet passing in front of its parent star. The obscuration of part of the...
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PublicaciónThe centre-to-limb variations of solar Fraunhofer lines imprinted upon lunar eclipse spectra. Implications for exoplanet transit observations
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PublicaciónThe GTC exoplanet transit spectroscopy survey. III. No asymmetries in the transit of CoRoT-29b
Context. The launch of the exoplanet space missions obtaining exquisite photometry from space has resulted in the discovery of thousands of planetary systems...
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PublicaciónThe Mass of the Neutron Star in CYG X-2 (V1341 CYG)
Cygnus X-2 is one of the brightest and longest known X-ray sources. We present high resolution optical spectroscopy of Cyg X-2 obtained over 4 years which gives...
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PublicaciónThe stable climate of KELT-9b,★
Even among the most irradiated gas giants, so-called ultra-hot Jupiters, KELT-9b stands out as the hottest planet thus far discovered with a dayside temperature...
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PublicaciónThe TEP Network - A Search for Transits of Extrasolar Planets: Observations of CM Draconis in 1994
The TEP (Transits of Extrasolar Planets) network undertakes the only current search for terrestrial sized planets around MS-Stars. TEP was formed in 1994 to...
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PublicaciónTransit timing variation and transmission spectroscopy analyses of the hot Neptune GJ3470b
GJ3470b is a hot Neptune exoplanet orbiting an M dwarf and the first sub-Jovian planet to exhibit Rayleigh scattering. We present transit timing variation (TTV)...
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PublicaciónTransiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission⋆. XXVIII. CoRoT-33b, an object in the brown dwarf desert with 2:3 commensurability with its host star
We report the detection of a rare transiting brown dwarf with a mass of 59 MJup and radius of 1.1 RJup around the metal-rich, [Fe/H] = +0.44, G9V star CoRoT-33...
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PublicaciónTwo warm Neptunes transiting HIP 9618 revealed by TESS and Cheops
HIP 9618 (HD 12572, TOI-1471, TIC 306263608) is a bright (G = 9.0 mag) solar analogue. TESS photometry revealed the star to have two candidate planets with...
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NoticiaUn eclipse al amanecer
Tres años después de la última retransmisión de un eclipse de Luna, la madrugada del domingo 15 al lunes 16 de mayo, el canal Sky-Live.tv seguirá en directo...