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Stellar elemental abundances are important for understanding the fundamental properties of a star or stellar group, such as age and evolutionary history, as well as the composition of an orbiting planet. However, as abundance measurement…

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We present a sample of 9 nearby F-type stars with detailed spectroscopic analyses to investigate the Basel Stellar Library (BaSeL) in two photometric systems simultaneously, UBV Johnson and uvby Stromgren. The sample corresponds to…

The proposed global astrometry mission {\it GAIA}, recently recommended within the context of ESA's Horizon 2000 Plus long-term scientific program, appears capable of surveying the solar neighborhood within $\sim$ 200 pc for the astrometric…

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Although not designed as an astrometric instrument, Kepler is expected to produce astrometric results of a quality appropriate to support many of the astrophysical investigations enabled by its photometric results. On the basis of data…

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Kepler is a NASA mission designed to detect exoplanets and characterize the properties of exoplanetary systems. Kepler also includes an asteroseismic programme which is being conducted through the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium…

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Study of exoplanets is one of the main goals of present research in planetary sciences and astrobiology. Analysis of huge planetary data from space missions such as CoRoT and Kepler is directed ultimately at finding a planet similar to…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 Madhu Kashyap Jagadeesh , S. B. Gudennavar , Urmi Doshi , M. Safonova

Gaia will be ESA's milestone astrometric mission, and is due for launch at the end of 2013. Gaia will repeatedly map the whole sky measuring about one billion sources to V=20-22 mag. Its data products will be {\mu}as accuracy astrometry,…

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We propose to use a modest fraction of the re-purposed Kepler mission time and apertures to greatly increase the quantity and quality of our knowledge of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) rotation and shape. NEAs are important for understanding…

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The inference of stellar parameters (such as radius and mass) through asteroseismic forward modelling depends on the number, accuracy, and precision of seismic and atmospheric constraints. ESA's Gaia space mission is providing precise…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-09 Benard Nsamba , Achim Weiss , Juma Kamulali

Context. We report the exploitation of a sample of epoch astrometry for 157 000 asteroids, the same object in the Gaia Data Release 3, extended over the time coverage planned for the Gaia DR4, which is not expected before the end of 2025.…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Gaia Collaboration , P. David , F. Mignard , D. Hestroffer , P. Tanga

Astrometry is a powerful technique to study the populations of extrasolar planets around nearby stars. It gives access to a unique parameter space and is therefore required for obtaining a comprehensive picture of the properties,…

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Searching for exoplanets with different methods has always been the focus of astronomers over the past few years. Among multiple planet detection techniques, astrometry stands out for its capability to accurately determine the orbital…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-22 Dong-Hong Wu

The search for biosignatures in potentially habitable exoplanets is one of the major astrophysics' drivers for the coming decades, and the prime science goal of the HWO NASA mission, a large UV-Optical-IR space telescope to be launched in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Elodie Choquet , Lisa Altinier , Nicolás Godoy , Alexis Lau , Arthur Vigan , David Mary

High-precision astrometry at the sub-microarcsecond level opens up a window to study Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars, and to determine their masses. It thus promises to play an important role in exoplanet science…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 Markus Janson , Alexis Brandeker , Celine Boehm , Alberto Krone Martins

CONTEXT: In the interpretation of stellar jet observations, the physical parameters are usually determined from emission line ratios, obtained from spectroscopic observations or using the information contained in narrow band images. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. De Colle , C. del Burgo , A. C. Raga

Context: Massive amounts of spectroscopic data obtained by stellar surveys are feeding an ongoing revolution in our knowledge of stellar and Galactic astrophysics. Analysing these data sets to extract the best possible astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 J. E. Martínez Fernández , S. Özdemir , R. Smiljanic , M. L. L. Dantas , A. R. da Silva

We present a comprehensive multivariate statistical analysis of 517 exoplanets from the NASA Exoplanet Archive to identify potentially habitable worlds and quantify detection bias in current surveys. Using eight key parameters (planetary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-24 Caleb Traxler , Samuel Townsend , Abby Mori , Grace Newman , Kaitlyn Morenzone

Precise exoplanet characterization requires precise classification of exoplanet host stars. The masses of host stars are commonly estimated by comparing their spectra to those predicted by stellar evolution models. However,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Benjamin T. Montet , John Asher Johnson

Studies of exoplanetary atmospheres have found no definite correlations between observed high altitude aerosols and other system parameters. This could be, in part, because of the lack of homogeneous exoplanet samples for which specific…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Chima D. McGruder , Mercedes López-Morales , Rafael Brahm , Andrés Jordán