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The first “ultrahot Neptune” is discovered
A team of astronomers from the University of Chile, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of La Laguna (ULL)...
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NewsThe IAC discovers a planetary nebula that destroyed its solar systemAn international team of researchers, including staff from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered a planetary nebula that destroyed its...
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NewsThe IAC leads the first scientific results of NIRPS, the new infrared exoplanet hunterThe new infrared spectrograph NIRPS, built with the participation of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and installed on the 3.6-metre telescope at...
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NewsThe IAC participates in a complex observation campaign to unravel the enigmatic 'Neptunian desert'An international scientific team, including members of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has launched an ambitious program to map exoplanets...
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PublicationThe life of stars and their planetsWe lack a reliable scenario for the formation and evolution of stars and their planetary systems, involving key factors such as magnetic fields and turbulence...
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PublicationThe Multiplanet System TOI-421We report the discovery of a warm Neptune and a hot sub-Neptune transiting TOI-421 (BD-14 1137, TIC 94986319), a bright (V = 9.9) G9 dwarf star in a visual...
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PublicationThe Occurrence of Rocky Habitable-zone Planets around Solar-like Stars from Kepler DataWe present the occurrence rates for rocky planets in the habitable zones (HZs) of main-sequence dwarf stars based on the Kepler DR25 planet candidate catalog...
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PublicationThe PLATO 1.0 missionPLATO 2.0 has recently been selected for ESA's M3 launch opportunity (2022/24). Providing accurate key planet parameters (radius, mass, density and age) in...
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PublicationThe PLATO missionPLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is ESA's M3 mission designed to detect and characterise extrasolar planets and perform asteroseismic...