Astrophysical: Exoplanets

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    The CHEOPS mission
    The CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite (CHEOPS) was selected on October 19, 2012, as the first small mission (S-mission) in the ESA Science Programme and...
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    The CHEOPS mission measures the properties of one of the hottest and most extreme extrasolar planets
    CHEOPS, the new exoplanet mission of the European Space Agency (ESA), in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating, has observed a...
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    The CHEOPS mission, in which the IAC is participating, observes its first exoplanets
    CHEOPS, the new exoplanet mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) in coordination with Switzerland, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...
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    The CoRoT exoplanet program: status & results
    The CoRoT space mission aims at detecting planets with the transit method. In operation for more than 6 years, the instrument has monitored a couple of ten...
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    The CoRoT satellite and its surprising exoplanets
    Up to now more than 400 extrasolar planets have been discovered, about 60 of them are transiting. Transiting extra-solar planets are particularly interesting...
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    The densest “Neptune” ever observed
    An international team of researchers, with participation from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, has discovered an extremely dense Neptune-sized planet...
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    The Detection and Investigation of Exoplanets with MASTER Global Network Telescopes
    The paper presents the method for detecting exoplanets in the image archive obtained by telescopes of the MASTER Global Network since 2002. The unique archive...
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    The Discovery and Follow-up of Four Transiting Short-period Sub-Neptunes Orbiting M Dwarfs
    Sub-Neptunes with radii of 2–3 R ⊕ are intermediate in size between rocky planets and Neptune-sized planets. The orbital properties and bulk compositions of...
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    The Earth as an object of astrophysical interest in the search for extrasolar planets
    The potential discovery of Earth-like planets around other stars will need, apart from a sophisticated technological development, the design of techniques for...