Planetary transits have proven to be one of the most efficient means of finding planets outside the Solar system, counting over 2500 exoplanet discoveries...
Tests, lessons, and successes of exoplanet transit observations with the GTC
Our group is presently conducting an observational campaign, using the 10-meter Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), to obtain the transmission spectrum of several...
The discovery of earth-like planets is nowadays the main goal of the entire exoplanets field. Despite the recent success of transiting programs, the measurement...
(1) Polarized Line Formation theories: the relevance of partial; (2) TBD; (3) On all things transit.
1) Polarized Line Formation theories: the relevance of partial non-coherence in light scattering. Dr. Sampoorna Malali The basic theoretical tool for diagnosing...
(1) The search for starlight reflected from hot Jupiters (2) Distribución espacial de las poblaciones estelares y del medio interestelar en las galaxias HII
(1) The search for starlight reflected from hot Jupiters. Dr. Florian Rodler To date, more than 300 extrasolar planets have been found, and their atmospheres...
37 new validated planets in overlapping K2 campaigns
We analysed 68 candidate planetary systems first identified during Campaigns 5 and 6 (C5 and C6) of the NASA K2 mission. We set out to validate these systems by...
Thousands of exoplanets have now been discovered with a huge range of masses, sizes and orbits: from rocky Earth-like planets to large gas giants grazing the...
A GTC survey of exoplanet atmosphere with transmission spectroscopy
Transmission spectroscopy has been a powerful tool to decipher the atmospheric compositions of transiting exoplanets. The recent HST survey has shown that...
A Mini-Neptune Orbiting the Metal-poor K Dwarf BD+29 2654
We report the discovery and Doppler mass measurement of a 7.4 days 2.3 R ⊕ mini-Neptune around a metal-poor K dwarf BD+29 2654 (TOI-2018). Based on a high...