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The transiting long-period exoplanets are the most interesting follow-up targets for the next-generation instruments, using the most sophisticated observational techniques. However, the scarcity in their transit events often leads to larger…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Suman Saha

ESA's Ariel mission will be uniquely suited to performing population-level studies of exoplanets. Most of these studies consist of quantifying trends between an Ariel-measured quantity, y, and an a priori planetary property, x; for example,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Nicolas B. Cowan , Ben Coull-Neveu

Much of the science from the exoplanets detected by the TESS mission relies on precisely predicted transit times that are needed for many follow-up characterization studies. We investigate ephemeris deterioration for simulated TESS planets…

We present the progress of work to streamline and simplify the process of exoplanet observation by citizen scientists. International collaborations such as ExoClock and Exoplanet Watch enable citizen scientists to use small telescopes to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-21 Oisín Creaner , Anna Preis , Cormac Ryan , Nika Gorchakova

We investigate the effect of observing cadence on the precision of radius ratio values obtained from transit light curves by performing uniform Markov Chain Monte Carlo fits of 46 exoplanets observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-07 Julio Hernandez Camero , Cynthia S. K. Ho , Vincent Van Eylen

The ExoEcho project is designed to study the photodynamics of exoplanets by leveraging high-precision transit timing data from ground- and space-based telescopes. Some exoplanets are experiencing orbital decay, and transit timing variation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-13 Xinyue Ma , Wenqin Wang , Zixin Zhang , Cong Yu , Dichang Chen , Jiwei Xie , Shangfei Liu , Li Zhou , Bo Ma

Observations of 43 complete transits of the hot Jupiter exoplanet HAT-P-32b using the MicroObservatory 0.15-m robotic telescope network covering a period of 7 years are presented. Compared with the most recent ephemeris for the system, the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-17 Martin J F Fowler , Frank F. Sienkiewicz , Robert T. Zellem , Mary E. Dussault

Detecting and characterising exoplanet atmospheres remains challenging because atmospheric signals can be comparable to residual noise and instrumental/astrophysical systematics. Spectral features span from a few ppm for small planets up to…

A new generation of exoplanet research beckons and with it the need for simulation tools that accurately predict signal and noise in transit spectroscopy observations. We developed ExoSim: an end-to-end simulator that models noise and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Subhajit Sarkar , Enzo Pascale , Andreas Papageorgiou , Luke J. Johnson , Ingo Waldmann

The Exoplanet Euclid Legacy Survey (ExELS) proposes to determine the frequency of cold exoplanets down to Earth mass from host separations of ~1 AU out to the free-floating regime by detecting microlensing events in Galactic Bulge. We show…

ArielRad, the Ariel radiometric model, is a simulator developed to address the challenges in optimising the space mission science payload and to demonstrate its compliance with the performance requirements. Ariel, the Atmospheric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-15 Lorenzo V. Mugnai , Enzo Pascale , Billy Edwards , Andreas Papageorgiou , Subhajit Sarkar

- Aims: We intended to quantify the impact of stellar multiplicity on the presence and properties of exoplanets. - Methods: We investigated all exoplanet host stars at less than 100 pc using the latest astrometric data from Gaia DR3 and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-25 J. González-Payo , J. A. Caballero , J. Gorgas , M. Cortés-Contreras , M. -C. Gálvez-Ortiz , C. Cifuentes

NASA Citizen Scientists have used Exoplanet Transit Interpretation Code (EXOTIC) to reduce 40 sets of time-series images of WASP-12 taken by privately owned telescopes and a 6-inch telescope operated by the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard…

Disintegrating/evaporating rocky exoplanets can be observed not only as transiting planets, but also in a grazing, non-transiting regime, where the solid body of the planet does not transit, but part of the comet-like tail can transit. In…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-19 Zoltán Garai

Transit events of extrasolar planets offer a wealth of information for planetary characterization. However, for many known targets, the uncertainty of their predicted transit windows prohibits an accurate scheduling of follow-up…

One core goal of the Kepler mission was to determine the frequency of Earth-like planets that orbit Sun-like stars. Accurately estimating this planet occurrence rate requires both a well-vetted list of planets and a clear understanding of…

We present ExoMiner++, an enhanced deep learning model that builds on the success of ExoMiner to improve transit signal classification in 2-minute TESS data. ExoMiner++ incorporates additional diagnostic inputs, including periodogram, flux…

Ariel has been selected as the next ESA M4 science mission and it is expected to be launched in 2028. During its 4-year mission, Ariel will observe the atmospheres of a large and diversified population of transiting exoplanets. A key factor…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 A. Brucalassi , M. Tsantaki , L. Magrini , S. Sousa , C. Danielski , K. Biazzo , G. Casali , M. Van der Swaelmen , M. Rainer , V. Adibekyan , E. Delgado-Mena , N. Sanna

Since the first discovery of an extra-solar planet around a main-sequence star, in 1995, the number of detected exoplanets has increased enormously. Over the past two decades, observational instruments (both onboard and on ground-based…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-26 Gloria Guilluy , Alessandro Sozzetti , Paolo Giacobbe , Aldo S. Bonomo , Giuseppina Micela

We refined the ephemeris of seven transiting exoplanets HAT-P-6b, HAT-P-12b, HAT-P-18b, HAT-P-22b, HAT-P-32b, HAT-P-33b, and HAT-P-52b. We observed 11 transits from eight observatories in different filters for HAT-P-6b and HAT-P-32b. Also,…