Astrophysical: Exoplanets

  • Talk
    PLATO: The ESA Cosmic Vision planetray system characterizer
    I present a general overview of the PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO) space mission. PLATO was approved by ESA’s Science Programme Committee...
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    Research on exoplanets and the Solar System comes to the classroom with the IAC's PETeR project
    The IAC's Educational Project with Robotic Telescopes (PETeR) offers a new edition of its online teacher training entitled ‘ Investigate the Universe with...
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    Revealing planet migration and detection of terrestrial planets with improved spectroscopic tools
    Spectroscopic observations of stars do not only provide us with valuable information about the stars themselves, but over the last years such observations have...
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    Rocky exoplanets and their host stars may have similar composition
    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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    SARA 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...
  • Publication
    Scanning 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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    Search 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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    Searching 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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    Searching 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...