Astrophysical: 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...
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    The PLATO mission
    PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is ESA's M3 mission designed to detect and characterise extrasolar planets and perform asteroseismic...
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    The Polar Orbit of TOI-2374 b, a Planet in the Neptunian Ridge
    The "Neptunian ridge" is a recently identified peak in the frequency of planets with sizes between that of Neptune and Saturn orbiting their host stars with...
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    The Search for Earth 2.0
    The discovery and characterization of exoplanets have the potential to offer the world one of the most impactful findings ever in the history of astronomy?the...
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    The searches for Earth-like planets
    Several techniques are achieving nowadays the precision levels required to detect few-Earth-mass planets, but still a fruitful path needs to be explored in...