Deciphering Spectral Fingerprints of Habitable Extrasolar Planets (2009)
Kaltenegger, L., Selsis, F., Fridlund, M., Lammer, H., Beichman, Ch., Danchi, W., ...
In this paper we discuss how we can read a planets spectrum to assess its habitability and search for the signatures of a biosphere. After a decade rich in giant exoplanet detections, observation...
Kaltenegger, L., Eiroa, C., Ribas, I., Paresce, F., Leitzinger, M., Odert, P., ...
In this paper we present and discuss the criteria for selecting potential target stars suitable for the search for Earth like planets, with a special emphasis on the stellar aspects of habitability....
The Science Case for PILOT III: the Nearby Universe (2009)
Lawrence, J. S., Ashley, M. C. B., Bailey, J., Navascues, D. Barrado Y, Bedding, T., Bland-Hawthorn, J., ...
PILOT (the Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope is a proposed 2.5 m optical/infrared telescope to be located at DomeC on the Antarctic plateau. The atmospheric conditions at Dome C...
The Science Case for PILOT I: Summary and Overview (2009)
Lawrence, J. S., Ashley, M. C. B., Bailey, J., Navascues, D. Barrado Y, Bedding, T., Bland-Hawthorn, J., ...
PILOT (the Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope) is a proposed 2.5 m optical/infrared telescope to be located at Dome C on the Antarctic plateau. Conditions at Dome C are known to...
Darwin —- a mission to detect and search for life on extrasolar planets (2009)
Cockell, C. S., Léger, A., Fridlund, M., Herbst, T. M., Kaltenegger, L., Absil, O., ...
The discovery of extrasolar planets is one of the greatest achievements of modern astronomy. The detection of planets that vary widely in mass demonstrates that extrasolar planets of low mass exist....
Darwin-A Mission to Detect and Search for Life on Extrasolar Planets (2009)
Cockell, C S, Léger, A, Fridlund, M, Herbst, T M, Kaltenegger, L, Absil, Olivier, ...
The discovery of extrasolar planets is one of the greatest achievements of modern astronomy. The detection of planets that vary widely in mass demonstrates that extrasolar planets of low mass exist....
Technology for a Mid-IR Flagship Mission to Characterize Earth-like Exoplanets (2009)
Lawson, PR, Absil, Olivier, Akeson, RL, Bally, J, Barry, Raphaëlle, Beichman, CA, ...
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The Science Case for PILOT III: the Nearby Universe. (2009)
Lawrence, J.S., Ashley, M.C.B., Bailey, J., Navascues, D.B.Y., Bedding, T.R., Bland-Hawthorn, J., ...
Original article can be found at: http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/138/paper/AS08051.htm Copyright CSIRO. DOI: 10.1071/AS08051
The science case for PILOT I: summary and overview (2009)
Lawrence, J. S., Ashley, M. C. B., Bailey, J., Navascues, D., Barrado. Y., Bedding, T. R., ...
PILOT (the Pathfinder for an International Large Optical Telescope) is a proposed 2.5-m optical/infrared telescope to be located at Dome C on the Antarctic plateau. Conditions at Dome C are known to...
Target star catalog for Darwin: Nearby Stellar sample for a search for terrestrial planets (2008)
Kaltenegger, L., Eiroa, C., Fridlund, C. V. M.
In order to evaluate and develop mission concepts for a search for Terrestrial Exoplanets, we have prepared a list of potential target systems. In this paper we present and discuss the criteria for...
The Serpens Molecular Cloud (2008)
Eiroa, C., Djupvik, A. A., Casali, M. M.
The Serpens cloud has received considerable attention in the last years, in particular the small region known as the Serpens cloud core where a plethora of star formation related phenomena are found....
DARWIN - A Mission to Detect, and Search for Life on, Extrasolar Planets (2008)
Cockell, C. S., Leger, A., Fridlund, M., Herbst, T., Kaltenegger, L., Absil, O., ...
The discovery of extra-solar planets is one of the greatest achievements of modern astronomy. The detection of planets with a wide range of masses demonstrates that extra-solar planets of low mass...
q1 Eri: a solar-type star with a planet and a dust belt (2008)
Liseau, R., Risacher, C., Brandeker, A., Eiroa, C., Fridlund, M., Nilsson, R., ...
Only very few solar-type stars exhibiting an infrared excess and harbouring planets are known to date. Indeed, merely a single case of a star-planet-disk system has previously been detected at...
Instituto de Astrofsica de Canarias, E-38200 La Laguna, Tenerife. (2007)
F. Garzon, C. Eiroa, D. De Winter, T. J. Mahoney, F. Favata
Abstract. From simulations of transit observations, it is found that the detectability of extrasolar planets depends only on two parameters: The signal-to-noise ratio during a transit, and the number...
Disks, Planetesimals, and Planets (2007)
F. Garzon, C. Eiroa, D. De Winter, T. J. Mahoney, A. J. Weinberger, E. E. Becklin, ...
Abstract. Using the coronagraph in the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) instrument aboard the Hubble Space Telescope, we have imaged circumstellar disks around stars of age...
Telescope and instrument robotization at Dome C (2007)
Strassmeier, K. G., Agabi, K., Agnoletto, L., Allan, A., Andersen, M. I., Ansorge, W., ...
This article reviews the situation for robotization of telescopes and instruments at the Antarctic station Concordia on Dome C. A brain-storming meeting was held in Tenerife in March 2007 from which...
Gravities and metallicities of stars with protoplanetary disks (2007)
A. Mora, B. Merín, B. Montesinos, C. Eiroa
We present here the motivation and method- ology of an ongoing study of a sample of Herbig Ae/Be and Vega stars surrounded by disks. Stellar gravities and metallicities are computed by comparing the...
A view of young circumstellar disks with the GTC (2006)
A view of young circumstellar disks with the GTC
ISOCAM-CVF spectroscopy of the circumstellar environment of young stellar objects (2005)
Alexander, R. D., Casali, M. M., Andre, P., Persi, P., Eiroa, C.
We present the results of a mid-infrared imaging spectroscopy survey of Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) and their surrounding environment in four low-mass star formation regions: RCrA, Rho Ophiuchi,...
VLA 3.5 cm continuum sources in the Serpens cloud core (2005)
We present VLA 3.5 cm continuum observations of the Serpens cloud core. 22 radio continuum sources are detected. 16 out of the 22 cm sources are suggested to be associated with young stellar objects...
Merín, B., Montesinos, B., Eiroa, C., Solano, E., Mora, A., D'Alessio, P., ...
We present a study of the stellar parameters, distances and spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of HD 34282 and HD 141569, two pre-main sequence Herbig AeBe stars. Both objects have been reported to...
Mora, A., Eiroa, C., Natta, A., Grady, C. A., De Winter, D., Davies, J. K., ...
We present high resolution (lambda / Delta_lambda = 49000) echelle spectra of the intermediate mass, pre-main sequence stars BF Ori, SV Cep, WW Wul and XY Per. The spectra cover the range 3800-5900...
The pre-main-sequence binary HK Ori: spectro-astrometry and EXPORT data (2004)
Baines, D., Oudmaijer, R. D., Mora, A., Eiroa, C., Porter, J. M., Merín, B., ...
In this paper we present multi-epoch observations of the pre-main-sequence binary HK Ori. These data have been drawn from the EXPORT data base and are complemented by high-quality spectro-astrometric...
Merín, B., Montesinos, B., Eiroa, C., Solano, E., Mora, A., D'Alessio, P., ...
We present an study of the stellar parameters, disctance and spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of HD 34282 and HD 141569, two pre-main sequence Herbig AeBe stars. Both objects have been reported...
Mora, A., Eiroa, C., Natta, A., Grady, C. A., Winter, D. De, Davies, J. K., ...
We present high resolution (»/ » = 49 000) échelle spectra of the intermediate mass, pre-main sequence stars BF Ori, SV Cep, WW Wul and XY Per. The spectra cover the range 3800-5900 Å and...
Astrophysical imaging with the Darwin IR interferometer (2003)
Rottgering, H. J. A., D'Arcio, L., Eiroa, C., Labbe, I., Rudnick, G.
The proposed infrared space interferometry mission Darwin has two main aims: (i) to detect and characterize exo-planets similar to the Earth, and (ii) to carry out astrophysical imaging in the...
ISOCAM-CVF spectroscopy of the circumstellar environment of young stellar objects (2003)
Alexander, R. D., Casali, M. M., Andre, P. M., Persi, P., Eiroa, C.
We present the results of a mid-infrared imaging spectroscopy survey of Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) and their surrounding environment in four low-mass star formation regions: RCrA, Rho Ophiuchi,...
ISOCAM-CVF spectroscopy of the circumstellar environment of young stellar objects (2003)
Alexander, R. D., Casali, M. M., Andre, P., Persi, P., Eiroa, C.
We present the results of a mid-infrared imaging spectroscopy survey of Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) and their surrounding environment in four low-mass star formation regions: RCrA, Rho Ophiuchi,...
ISOCAM-CVF spectroscopy of the circumstellar environment of young stellar objects (2003)
Alexander, R. D., Casali, M. M., Andre, P., Persi, P., Eiroa, C.
We present the results of a mid-infrared imaging spectroscopy survey of Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) and their surrounding environment in four low-mass star formation regions: RCrA, Rho Ophiuchi,...
Astrophysical imaging with the Darwin IR Interferometer (2003)
Röttgering, H. J. A., D'Arcio, L., Eiroa, C., Labbé, I., Rudnick, G.
A dynamical study of the circumstellar gas in UX Orionis (2002)
Mora, A., Natta, A., Eiroa, C., Grady, C. A., De Winter, D., Davies, J. K., ...
We present the results of a high spectral resolution study of the circumstellar (CS) gas around the intermediate mass, pre-main sequence star UX Ori. The results are based on a set of 10 echelle...
A Dynamical study of the circumstellar gas in UX Orionis (2002)
Mora, A, Natta, A, Eiroa, C, Grady, CA, De Winter, D, Davies, JK, ...
On the simultaneous optical and near-infrared variability of pre-main sequence stars (2002)
Eiroa, C., Oudmaijer, R. D., Davies, J. K., De Winter, D., Garzon, F., Palacios, J., ...
For a complete understanding of the physical processes causing the photometric variability of pre-main sequence systems, simultaneous optical and near-IR observations are required to disentangle the...
A Dynamical Study of the Circumstellar Gas in UX Orionis (2002)
Mora, A., Natta, A., Eiroa, C., Grady, C. A., De Winter, D., Davies, J. K., ...
EXPORT: optical photometry and polarimetry of Vega-type and pre-main sequence stars (2001)
Oudmaijer, R. D., Palacios, J., Eiroa, C., Collaboration, The EXPORT
This paper presents optical UBVRI broadband photo-polarimetry of the EXPORT sample obtained at the 2.5m Nordic Optical Telescope. The database consists of multi-epoch photo-polarimetry of 68...
A Photometric Catalogue of Southern Emission-Line Stars (2001)
De Winter, D., Maira, A., Thé, P. S., Redondo, I., ...
We present a catalogue of previously unpublished optical and infrared photometry for a sample of 162 emission-line objects and shell stars visible from the southern hemisphere. The data were obtained...
Can Jupiters be found by monitoring Galactic bulge microlensing events from northern sites? (2001)
Tsapras, Y., Street, R. A., Horne, K. (University Of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, UK), Penny, A., Clarke, F., Deeg, H. (Instituto De Astrofísica De Andalucía, Granada, Spain), ...
In1998 the EXPORTteam monitored microlensing event lightcurves using a CCD camera on the IAC 0.8m telescope on Tenerife to evaluate the prospect of using northern telescopes to find microlens...
EXPORT: Near-IR observations of Vega-type and pre-main sequence stars (2001)
Eiroa, C., Garzón, F., Alberdi, A., De Winter, D., Ferlet, R., Grady, C. A., ...
We present near-IR J H K photometric data of sample of 58 main-sequence, mainly Vega-type, and pre-main sequence stars. The data were taken during four observation runs in the period May 1998 to...
EXPORT: Optical photometry and polarimetry of Vega-type and pre-main sequence stars (2001)
Oudmaijer, R. D., Palacios, J., Eiroa, C., Davies, J. K., De Winter, D., Ferlet, R., ...
ISO-SWS Data on Proto-Planetary Systems Candidates (2000)
Palacios, J., Wesselius, P. R., Alberdi, A., Cameron, A., Davies, J. K., Deeg, H. J., ...
The proposal awarded with the La Palma Observatory International Time in 1998 was devoted to the study the formation and properties of planetary systems. The EXPORT group carried out the scheduled...
Stellar parameters for the EXPORT sample: Rotational velocities and effective temperatures. (2000)
Solano, E., Montesinos, B., Mora, A., Alberdi, A., Collier Cameron, A., Davies, J. K., ...
Determination of Spectral Types for the Stars in the EXPORT Sample. (2000)
Merín, B., Montesinos, B., Eiroa, C., Alberdi, A., Collier Cameron, A., Davies, J. K., ...
Mass Function and Distributions of Orbital Elements of Substellar Companions. (2000)
Michel Mayor St'ephane, C. Eiroa, D. De Winter, T. J. Mahoney, Michel Mayor
. The orbital element distributions of giant-planet candidates compared to the equivalent distributions for spectroscopic binaries strongly suggest different formation mechanisms for the two...