Given the very close proximity of their habitable zones, brown dwarfs (BDs) represent high-value targets in the search for nearby transiting habitable planets...
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PublicaciónHabitable Planets Eclipsing Brown Dwarfs: Strategies for Detection and Characterization
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PublicaciónHunting for eclipsing Post Common Envelope Binaries from SDSS
We give an overview of a project aiming to identify new eclipsing post common envelope binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This work focuses on the...
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PublicaciónJupiter as an Exoplanet: UV to NIR Transmission Spectrum Reveals Hazes, a Na Layer, and Possibly Stratospheric H2O-ice Clouds
Currently, the analysis of transmission spectra is the most successful technique to probe the chemical composition of exoplanet atmospheres. However, the...
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BlogMICRORRELATOS CÓSMICOS: El maquillaje
Como novedad de 2021, periódicamente publicaremos “Microrrelatos cósmicos”, una nueva categoría dentro de nuestro blog “C/ Vía Láctea, S/N”. Os invitamos a...
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PublicaciónOnce in a blue moon: detection of `bluing' during debris transits in the white dwarf WD 1145+017
The first transiting planetesimal orbiting a white dwarf was recently detected in K2 data of WD 1145+017 and has been followed up intensively. The multiple...
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EdiciónPARALAJES Luces del Universo
En 2015 celebrábamos el Año Internacional de la Luz, “mensajera” de los fenómenos astrofísicos, así como el 30 aniversario de la inauguración oficial de la sede...
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PublicaciónSecondary eclipses in the CoRoT light curves. A homogeneous search based on Bayesian model selection
Aims: We aim to identify and characterize secondary eclipses in the original light curves of all published CoRoT planets using uniform detection and evaluation...
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NoticiaSupereclipse
El próximo día 21 de enero, la Luna volverá a cruzar la sombra de la Tierra, adquiriendo el resplandor cobrizo tan característico de los eclipses lunares. El...
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PublicaciónSystem parameters of three short-period cataclysmic variable stars
Using photometric ULTRACAM observations of three new short-period cataclysmic variables (CVs), we model the primary eclipse light curves to extract the orbital...