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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PublicaciónHD 191939: Three Sub-Neptunes Transiting a Sun-like Star Only 54 pc Away
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PublicaciónHigh-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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CharlaHunting 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...
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PublicaciónHyades Member K2-136c: The Smallest Planet in an Open Cluster with a Precisely Measured Mass
K2-136 is a late-K dwarf (0.742 ± 0.039 M ⊙) in the Hyades open cluster with three known, transiting planets and an age of 650 ± 70 Myr. Analyzing K2 photometry...
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GaleríaInauguración del telescopio ARTEMIS
Imágenes del 20 de junio de 2019 en la sede central del IAC y en el Observatorio del Teide, durante la inauguración del telescopio Artemis.
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CharlaIntroduction of MuSCAT for exoplanet studies and its initial results
NASA's Kepler mission has made a revolution in discovering a large number of transiting exoplanets. Moreover K2, TESS, and PLATO will provide more transiting...
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CharlaKyoto 3.8m segmented telescope project
The 3.8m optical and infrared telescope, which is Japan's first segmented mirror telescope, is now being constructed using the world's first super high...
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NoticiaLa misión CHEOPS caracteriza uno de los planetas extrasolares más calientes y extremos
CHEOPS, la nueva misión de exoplanetas de la Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA), en la que participa el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), ha observado un...
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NoticiaLa misión CHEOPS, en la que participa el IAC, observa sus primeros exoplanetas
CHEOPS, la nueva misión de exoplanetas de la Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA) en coordinación con Suiza, en la que participa el Instituto de Astrofísica de...