Correlations between the stellar, planetary, and debris components of exoplanet systems observed by Herschel [PDF]
J.P.M., C.E., J.M. and B.M. are partially supported by Spanish grant AYA 2011-26202. This work was supported by the European Union through ERC grant number no.
Lestrade, J.-F. +85 more
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Understanding exoplanet formation, structure and evolution in 2010 [PDF]
AbstractIn this short review, we summarize our present understanding (and non-understanding) of exoplanet formation, structure and evolution, in the light of the most recent discoveries. Recent observations of transiting massive brown dwarfs seem to remarkably confirm the predicted theoretical mass-radius relationship in this domain.
G. Chabrier, J. Leconte, and I. Baraffe
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A catalogue of exoplanet atmospheric retrieval codes [PDF]
Exoplanet atmospheric retrieval is a computational technique widely used to infer properties of planetary atmospheres from remote spectroscopic observations.
MacDonald, Ryan J., Batalha, Natasha E.
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Mineralogy, Structure, and Habitability of Carbon-Enriched Rocky Exoplanets: A Laboratory Approach [PDF]
Carbon-enriched rocky exoplanets have been proposed around dwarf stars as well as around binary stars, white dwarfs and pulsars. However, the mineralogical make up of such planets is poorly constrained. We performed high-pressure high-temperature laboratory experiments ($P$ = 1$-$2 GPa, $T$ = 1523$-$1823 K) on carbon-enriched chemical mixtures to ...
Hakim, K. +6 more
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Using dimers to measure biosignatures and atmospheric pressure for terrestrial exoplanets [PDF]
We present a new method to probe atmospheric pressure on Earth-like planets using (O-O) dimers in the near-infrared. We also show that dimer features could be the most readily detectable biosignatures for Earth-like atmospheres and may even be detectable
Misra, A. +3 more
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The Unistellar Exoplanet Campaign: Citizen Science Results and Inherent Education Opportunities [PDF]
This paper presents early results from and prospects for exoplanet science using a citizen science private/public partnership observer network managed by the SETI Institute in collaboration with Unistellar.
Unistellar Citizen Scientists, +11 more
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The hundreds of exoplanets that have been discovered in the past two decades offer a new perspective on planetary structure. Instead of being the archetypal examples of planets, those of our Solar System are merely possible outcomes of planetary system formation and evolution, and conceivably not even terribly common outcomes (although this remains an ...
Spiegel, David S. +2 more
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Enhanced constraints on the interior composition and structure of terrestrial exoplanets [PDF]
Exoplanet interior modelling usually makes the assumption that the elemental abundances of a planet are identical to those of its host star. Host stellar abundances are good proxies of planetary abundances, but only for refractory elements. This is particularly true for terrestrial planets, as evidenced by the relative differences in bulk chemical ...
H S Wang +5 more
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exoplanet-dev/exoplanet: exoplanet v0.3.2
Fixes a documentation bug introduced in v0.3.
Dan Foreman-Mackey +5 more
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Abiotic ozone and oxygen in atmospheres similar to prebiotic earth [PDF]
The search for life on planets outside our solar system will use spectroscopic identification of atmospheric biosignatures. The most robust remotely detectable potential biosignature is considered to be the detection of oxygen (O2) or ozone (O3 ...
Domagal-Goldman, Shawn D. +9 more
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