Astrophysical: Exoplanets

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    Gliese 12 b: A Temperate Earth-sized Planet at 12 pc Ideal for Atmospheric Transmission Spectroscopy
    Recent discoveries of Earth-sized planets transiting nearby M dwarfs have made it possible to characterize the atmospheres of terrestrial planets via follow-up...
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    Gliese 486 b: a Rosetta stone for the study of exoplanets
    An international scientific team , with the participation of the Institutito de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has measured the mass and radius of an Earth-like...
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    Ground-breaking exoplanet science with the ANDES spectrograph at the ELT
    In the past decade the study of exoplanet atmospheres at high-spectral resolution, via transmission/emission spectroscopy and cross-correlation techniques for...
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    HD 119130 b Is Not an "Ultradense" Sub-Neptune
    We present a revised mass measurement for HD 119130 b (aka K2-292 b), a transiting planet (P = 17 days, R p = 2.63 ‑ 0.10 + 0.11 R ⊕) orbiting a...
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    HD 119130 b Is Not an "Ultradense" Sub-Neptune
    We present a revised mass measurement for HD 119130 b (aka K2-292 b), a transiting planet (P = 17 days, R p = R ⊕) orbiting a chromospherically inactive G dwarf...
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    HD 191939: Three Sub-Neptunes Transiting a Sun-like Star Only 54 pc Away
    We present the discovery of three sub-Neptune-sized planets transiting the nearby and bright Sun-like star HD 191939 (TIC 269701147, TOI 1339), a K s = 7.18 mag...
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    Heaviest element yet detected in an exoplanet atmosphere
    An international team of astronomers, in which IAC researchers participate, have discovered barium, the heaviest element ever found in an exoplanet atmosphere...
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    High-resolution Emission Spectroscopy of the Ultrahot Jupiter KELT-9b: Little Variation in Day- and Nightside Emission Line Contrasts
    The transmission spectrum of the ultrahot Jupiter KELT-9b (T eq ~ 4000 K) exhibits absorption by several metal species. We searched for atomic and molecular...
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    High-resolution Spectroscopic Reconnaissance of a Temperate Sub-Neptune
    The study of temperate sub-Neptunes is the new frontier in exoplanetary science. A major development in the past year has been the first detection of carbon...