Astrophysical: Exoplanets

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    ESPRESSO and CARMENES discover two potentially habitable exo-Earths around a star near the Sun
    An international scientific team led by researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has discovered the presence of two planets with Earth-like...
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    ESPRESSO confirms Proxima b with unprecedented precision
    An international team, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias participated, as well as institutions in Spain, Italy, Portugal...
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    ESPRESSO confirms the nearest exo-Earth with unprecedented precision
    An international team, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias participated, as well as institutions in Spain, Italy, Portugal...
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    Evidence for Low-level Dynamical Excitation in Near-resonant Exoplanet Systems
    The geometries of near-resonant planetary systems offer a relatively pristine window into the initial conditions of exoplanet systems. Given that near-resonant...
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    Evidence for TiO in the Atmosphere of the Hot Jupiter HAT-P-65 b
    We present the low-resolution transmission spectra of the puffy hot Jupiter HAT-P-65b (0.53 M Jup, 1.89 R Jup, T eq = 1930 K), based on two transits observed...
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    Evidence of water found in the atmosphere of an ultra-hot gas giant
    Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international scientific team, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...
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    ExoMol line lists - LIV. Empirical line lists for AlH and AlD and experimental emission spectroscopy of AlD in A<SUP>1</SUP>Π (v = 0, 1, 2)
    New ExoMol line lists AloHa for aluminium hydride (AlH and AlD) are presented improving the previous line lists WYLLoT. The revision is motivated by the recent...
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    Exoplanet Detection and the CoRoT Mission
    We give an overview over the different techniques to detect planets in other stars. A special emphasis is given to the transit method and the French/European...