One of the most exciting possibilities enabled by transiting exoplanets is to measure their atmospheric properties through the technique of transmission...
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TalkExploring the diversity of exoplanet atmospheres from the ground with the ACCESS Survey
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TalkFinding extra-solar planets in the presence of stellar jitter
The RV method is responsible for discovering the majority of planets that orbit stars other than our Sun. However, one problem with this technique is that...
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TalkFingerprints of our Neighbors: A Spectral Library for Characterizing the Coldest Stars, Brown Dwarfs and Extrasolar Planets.
Over the past two decades, advances in infrared instrumentation have allowed us to identify a vast and previously unseen population of low-temperature stars...
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PublicationFirst Release of PLATO Consortium Stellar Limb-darkening Coefficients
We release the first grid of stellar limb-darkening coefficients (LDCs) and intensity profiles (IPs) computed by the consortium of the PLAnetary Transits and...
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NewsGliese 486 b: a Rosetta stone for the study of exoplanets
An international scientific team , with the participation of the Institutito de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has measured the mass and radius of an Earth-like...
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PublicationHD 191939: Three Sub-Neptunes Transiting a Sun-like Star Only 54 pc Away
We present the discovery of three sub-Neptune-sized planets transiting the nearby and bright Sun-like star HD 191939 (TIC 269701147, TOI 1339), a K s = 7.18 mag...
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NewsHeaviest element yet detected in an exoplanet atmosphere
An international team of astronomers, in which IAC researchers participate, have discovered barium, the heaviest element ever found in an exoplanet atmosphere...
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PublicationHigh-resolution Emission Spectroscopy of the Ultrahot Jupiter KELT-9b: Little Variation in Day- and Nightside Emission Line Contrasts
The transmission spectrum of the ultrahot Jupiter KELT-9b (T eq ~ 4000 K) exhibits absorption by several metal species. We searched for atomic and molecular...
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TalkHunting exoplanets with the ESPRESSO spectrograph
The search for extrasolar planets is one of the fastest-growing fields of astronomy. This rapid growth was both made possible by the development of...