Astrophysical: Exoplanets

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    The IAC discovers a new super-Earth in a nearby planetary system
    An international scientific team led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has identified a new super-Earth orbiting the star HD 176986, a K-type...
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    The IAC discovers a planetary nebula that destroyed its solar system
    An 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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    The IAC leads the first scientific results of NIRPS, the new infrared exoplanet hunter
    The 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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    The 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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    The life of stars and their planets
    We 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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    The Multiplanet System TOI-421
    We 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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    The nature of ASASSN-24fw's occultation: modelling the event as dimming by optically thick rings around a substellar companion
    ASASSN-24fw, monitored by the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae, underwent a rapid and deep dimming event beginning in late 2024 and lasting until 2025...
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    The Occurrence of Rocky Habitable-zone Planets around Solar-like Stars from Kepler Data
    We 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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    The PLATO 1.0 mission
    PLATO 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...