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...
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NewsRocky exoplanets and their host stars may have similar composition
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NewsSARA 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...
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PublicationScanning 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...
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TalkSearch 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...
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PublicationSearching for technosignatures in exoplanetary systems with current and future missions
Technosignatures refer to observational manifestations of technology that could be detected through astronomical means. Most previous searches for...
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TalkSearching for Warm Planets around Ultracool Dwarfs
Ultracool dwarfs represent the low-mass tail of the distribution of primary masses for which planets can be found with the Kepler satellite. Our team has...
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PublicationShould Eddington concentrate on M stars?
In a recent preprint, Pepper et al. (2002) evaluate the sensitivity of photon-noise limited transit searches for habitable planets. They conclude that these...
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PublicationSimulations Predicting the Ability of Multi-color Simultaneous Photometry to Distinguish TESS Candidate Exoplanets from False Positives
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is currently concluding its 2 yr primary science mission searching 85% of the sky for transiting exoplanets...
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