Astrofísicas: Tránsitos

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    A Fourth Planet in the Kepler-51 System Revealed by Transit Timing Variations
    Kepler-51 is a ≲1 Gyr old Sun-like star hosting three transiting planets with radii ≈6–9 R ⊕ and orbital periods ≈45–130 days. Transit timing variations (TTVs)...
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    A morphological description of the Sun observed in Honduras during the total solar eclipse of 11 July 1991
    A morphological description of the solar photosphere, chromosphere, and the corona is presented from a complete sequence of visual and spectroscopic...
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    CHEOPS detecta inesperadamente un exoplaneta único
    El satélite cazador de exoplanetas CHEOPS de la Agencia Espacial Europea (ESA), en el que participa el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) entre otras...
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    Detection of large terrestrial planets around M and K dwarf stars in Orion by transit photometry
    A ground based transit survey of M and K-dwarf stars near the galactic plane should be able to determine the abundance of the lower end of the planetary radius...
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    Eddington's planet finding capabilities
    The capabilities of Eddington for the detection and analysis of extrasolar planets are outlined. The primary goal of the PF (Planet finding) part of the mission...
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    Ground-based photometric follow-up for exoplanet detections with the PLATO mission
    Detections of transiting planets from the upcoming PLATO mission are expected to face significant contamination from contaminating eclipsing binaries, resulting...
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    Hunting for eclipsing Post Common Envelope Binaries from SDSS
    We give an overview of a project aiming to identify new eclipsing post common envelope binaries from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. This work focuses on the...
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    Hyades Member K2-136c: The Smallest Planet in an Open Cluster with a Precisely Measured Mass
    K2-136 is a late-K dwarf (0.742 ± 0.039 M ⊙) in the Hyades open cluster with three known, transiting planets and an age of 650 ± 70 Myr. Analyzing K2 photometry...
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    Migration and Evolution of giant ExoPlanets (MEEP). I. Nine Newly Confirmed Hot Jupiters from the TESS Mission
    Hot Jupiters were many of the first exoplanets discovered in the 1990s, but in the decades since their discovery the mysteries surrounding their origins have...