MarcoPolo-R near earth asteroid sample return mission
MarcoPolo-R is a sample return mission to a primitive Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) proposed in collaboration with NASA. It will rendezvous with a primitive NEA...
Aims: We estimate the minimum length on which solar granulation can be considered to be a Markovian process. Methods: We measure the variation in the bright...
MARVELS-1: A Face-on Double-lined Binary Star Masquerading as a Resonant Planetary System and Consideration of Rare False Positives in Radial Velocity Planet Searches
We have analyzed new and previously published radial velocity (RV) observations of MARVELS-1, known to have an ostensibly substellar companion in a ~6 day orbit...
MASCARA-2 b. A hot Jupiter transiting the mV = 7.6 A-star HD 185603
In this paper we present MASCARA-2 b, a hot Jupiter transiting the mV = 7.6 A2 star HD 185603. Since early 2015, MASCARA has taken more than 1.6 million flux...
MASCARA-3b. A hot Jupiter transiting a bright F7 star in an aligned orbit
We report the discovery of MASCARA-3b, a hot Jupiter orbiting its bright (V = 8.33) late F-type host every 5.55149 ± 0.00001 days in an almost circular orbit (e...
Masgomas-4: Physical characterization of a double-core obscured cluster with a massive and very young stellar population
Context. The discovery of new, obscured massive star clusters has changed our understanding of the Milky Way star-forming activity from a passive to a very...
Mass accretion rates from multiband photometry in the Carina Nebula: the case of Trumpler 14
Context. We present a study of the mass accretion rates of pre-main sequence (PMS) stars in the cluster Trumpler 14 (Tr 14) in the Carina Nebula. Using optical...
Mass and density of the transiting hot and rocky super-Earth LHS 1478 b (TOI-1640 b)
One of the main objectives of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission is the discovery of small rocky planets around relatively bright nearby...
Mass and Radius Determinations for Five Transiting M-Dwarf Stars
We have derived masses and radii for both components in five short-period single-lined eclipsing binary stars discovered by the TrES wide-angle photometric...