[astro-ph.IM] We are just beginning to explore the billion-year evolution from nascent planets in disks to mature planetary systems. Recent discoveries hint at demographic and atmospheric differences between young planets […]
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Posted inExoplanets, -moons, -comets
Characterising Transiting Exoplanets At Long Orbital Period: Lessons Learned For PLATO From 10 Years Of Monitoring The HIP41378 System
[astro-ph.EP] The upcoming launch of the PLATO mission will open a new area of exoplanetary research by probing transiting exoplanets at long orbital periods around bright stars.
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The GAPS Programme at TNG LXXIV. A Reanalysis Of The Planetary Systems TOI-1272 And TOI-1694 With HARPS-N And Retraction Of The Planetary Interpretation Of TOI-1272 c
[astro-ph.EP] Hot Neptunes are close-in exoplanets that occupy a sparsely populated region of parameter space known as the “hot-Neptune desert”.
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Machine Learning And Deep Learning For Exoplanet Detection And Atmospheric Characterization With JWST And The Upcoming Ariel Mission
[astro-ph.IM] The detection and atmospheric characterization of exoplanets have entered a new data-intensive era driven by the James Webb Space Telescope and the upcoming Ariel mission.
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NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Binaries Project
Some stars have planets. Others are orbited by brown dwarfs, balls of gas too massive to be planets, but too low-mass to be stars. Astronomers love these brown dwarf-star pairs […]
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Long-Period Comets’ Orbits Reflect Close Passage by Star HD 7977
The Gaia mission has allowed researchers to understand the motions of stars like never before, even revealing possible interactions between our Solar System and nearby stars.
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VLT Beyond 2030 and Call for White Papers
The VLT Beyond 2030 conference gathered participants from the community and ESO experts to present and discuss science and technological ideas for the future of both the Very Large Telescope […]
Posted inAstrobiology (general), Astrochemistry, Astrogeology, Astronomy & Telescopes, Policy, Reports, Roadmaps, & Plans
Input Sought: Review of Progress Toward the Decadal Survey Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s
The National Academies’ decadal survey, Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s (Astro2020), identifies the most compelling science challenges and frontiers in astronomy and astrophysics and presents […]
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Imaging & Spectroscopy
A Decade Of Monitoring The HIP 41378’s Planetary System
Multi-planetary systems provide key constraints on planet formation and evolution, as their architecture encodes the dynamical history of planets formed within a common protoplanetary disk.
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Direct Imaging Discovery of Giant Exoplanet β Pictoris d: A Decade-Long Game of Hide-and-Seek
We report the direct imaging discovery of a third exoplanet in the β Pictoris system. We detect β Pictoris d in non-coronagraphic observations obtained with VLT/ERIS as well as multi-epoch […]