Half of Kepler’s giant exoplanet candidates are false positivesPublished 2 December, 2015 in Outreach
An international team led by Alexandre Santerne from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), made a 5-year radial velocity1 campaign of Kepler’s giant exoplanet candidates, using the SOPHIE...
read more ❯ Rocky exoplanet with atmosphere detected in the neighborhood of the Solar SystemPublished 11 November, 2015 in Outreach
Nuno Cardoso Santos, from the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), participated in the discovery of the “exoVenus” GJ 1132b, announced today in Nature.
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read more ❯ Stellar atmosphere can be used to predict the composition of rocky exoplanetsPublished 17 September, 2015 in Outreach
In two recently published articles1,2, researchers from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) show that the ratio of some heavy elements in a star, like Magnesium (Mg), Silicon...
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