Earth-like planets
Direct imaging of Earth-like planets: why we care about exozodis
... 2. IMPACT OF EXOZODIS ON EXOEARTH IMAGING WITH OPTICAL TELESCOPES The most obvious effect of exozodiacal dust at optical wavelengths on direct observations of Earth-like planets is to increase the ...
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Earth-like planets: science performance predictions for future nulling interferometry missions
... an Earth-like extrasolar planet is very challenging due to the high contrast ( ∼10 7 in the mid-IR, ∼10 10 in the visible) and the small angular separation ( ∼ ...an Earth-Sun system located at 10 ...
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Technology for a Mid-IR Flagship Mission to Characterize Earth-like Exoplanets
... Integrated Modeling High-fidelity modeling is needed to predict the behavior of the observatory when subjected to realistic dynamic disturbances (e.g., from reaction wheels). Such a model would need to be validated with ...
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The transmission spectrum of Earth-size transiting planets
... of Earth-size exoplanets from the ultraviolet (UV) to the near infrared ...few Earth-like planets can be detected with a 30–40 m ...these planets are frequent and they are efficiently ...
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The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets.
... find planets with minimum masses as low as ...candidate planets have been announced by the Kepler Team ( Borucki & the Kepler Team 2010 ...to Earth-like planets, will greatly ...
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Water loss from terrestrial planets orbiting ultracool dwarfs: implications for the planets of TRAPPIST-1
... if planets form in-situ in the HZs of UCDs then it may be difficult to retain water because of the rapid forma- tion timescale and very high impact speeds (Lissauer 2007; Ray- mond, Scalo, & Meadows ...these ...
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Unravelling tidal dissipation in gaseous giant planets
... Saturn-like planets, we apply the method described by Ogilvie ( 2013 ), which uses the frequency-dependent Love number to evaluate the reservoirs of dissipation both in their envelope and their core as a ...
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The Spitzer search for the transits of HARPS low-mass planets. II. Null results for 19 planets
... geted planets does not preclude the possibility that one or several transits were in the data, but were just too shallow to be noticed by the Markov ...RV planets, each transit assuming a circular orbit for ...
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The CORALIE survey for southern extrasolar planets XVII. New and updated long period and massive planets
... So far CORALIE has allowed (or has contributed to) detection of more than eighty extrasolar planet candidates. In this paper we report the discovery of seven long-period and massive plan- ets orbiting HD 27631, HD 98649, ...
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TRAPPIST (TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope)
... TRAPPIST (TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope) E. Jehin, M. Gillon, C. Opitom, J. Manfroid, D. Hutsemékers, L. Delrez, P. Magain Département d'Astrophysique, de Géophysique et d'Océanographie, ...
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A watery Earth
... the Earth and Moon are about ...on Earth, mainly in Australia and Northern Canada that are of similar ages to those on the Moon, but most of the rocks on Earth are ...the Earth is constantly ...
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Oceanic tides from Earth-like to ocean planets
... extrasolar planets, we developed a linear model reducing the physics of tides to the ...idealized Earth and TRAPPIST-1 f planets to constrain the Rayleigh coefficient (σ R ) and illustrate asymptotic ...
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A nearby Earth?
... Our Earth lies 150 million kilometres from the Sun, and every square metre of the side facing the Sun collects about 1400 watts of solar ...the Earth were to orbit Proxima Centauri at a distance of ...
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The rotation of extra-solar planets
... in a given time interval ranging from 0.001 Gyr to 10 Gyr. In Table 2, the estimated ages of the central stars are given, when available. This allows to check whether the planet should be fully tidally evolved. In ...
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An educated search for transiting habitable planets: (Research Note) Targetting M dwarfs with known transiting planets
... Ground-based photometric time series reaching the sub- mmag precision level for a time sampling better than one minute have been obtained in the optical for several transiting planets (e.g., Gillon et al. 2009, ...
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Binary star systems and extrasolar planets
... The Palomar High-precision Astrometric Search for Exoplanet Systems (PHASES) is a search for S-type giant planets orbiting either star in 50 binary systems.. The go[r] ...
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In situ Exploration of the Giant Planets
... these planets atmospheres would thus allow us to test these assumptions and to offer a diagnostic tool of the behavior of H/He at high pressures in giant ...distant planets in our Solar ...from Earth ...
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The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets
... the planets underwent migration in the protoplanetary disk, during which each consecutive pair of planets was locked in 3:2 ...quent planets from exact commensurability might be explained by tidal ...
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Details on DARWIN and the Search for Extrasolar Planets
... combiners like semi-transparent mirrors, at least 50% of the signal is lost at each ...designs, like a beam combina- tion scheme using IO components, should provide much higher ...
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Dim Sun, warm Earth
... presence of stromatolites throughout the history of our world means there must have been warm oceans for them to live in. This is fortunate but puzzling, because our understanding of how stars work suggests that when the ...
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