Transit timing analysis of CoRoT-1b (2009)
Csizmadia, Sz., Renner, S., Barge, P., Agol, E., Aigrain, S., Alonso, R., ...
CoRoT, the pioneer space-based transit search, steadily provides thousands of high-precision light curves with continuous time sampling over periods of up to 5 months. The transits of a planet...
A Submillimetre Search for Cold Extended Debris Disks in the Beta Pictoris Moving Group (2009)
Nilsson, R., Liseau, R., Brandeker, A., Olofsson, G., Risacher, C., Fridlund, M., ...
The Beta Pictoris Moving Group is a nearby stellar association of young (12Myr) co-moving stars including the classical debris disk star beta Pictoris. Due to their proximity and youth they are...
Rauer, H., Queloz, D., Csizmadia, Sz., Deleuil, M., Alonso, R., Aigrain, S., ...
Aims. The CoRoT space mission continues to photometrically monitor about 12 000 stars in its field-of-view for a series of target fields to search for transiting extrasolar planets ever since 2007....
The spin-orbit angle of the transiting hot jupiter CoRoT-1b (2009)
Pont, F., Endl, M., Cochran, W. D., Barnes, S. I., Sneden, C., MacQueen, P. J., ...
We measure the angle between the planetary orbit and the stellar rotation axis in the transiting planetary system CoRoT-1, with new HIRES/Keck and FORS/VLT high-accuracy photometry. The data indicate...
Leger, A., Rouan, D., Schneider, J., Barge, P., Fridlund, M., Samuel, B., ...
We report the discovery of very shallow (DF/F = 3.4 10-4), periodic dips in the light curve of an active V = 11.7 G9V star observed by the CoRoT satellite, which we interpret as due to the presence...
Leger, A, Rouan, D, Schneider, J, Barge, P, Fridlund, M, Samuel, B, ...
We report the discovery of very shallow (DF/F = 3.4 10-4), periodic dips in the light curve of an active V = 11.7 G9V star observed by the CoRoT satellite, which we interpret as due to the presence...
Planetary transit candidates in COROT-IRa01 field (2009)
Carpano, S., Cabrera, J., Alonso, R., Barge, P., Aigrain, S., ...
Context: CoRoT is a pioneering space mission devoted to the analysis of stellar variability and the photometric detection of extrasolar planets. Aims: We present the list of planetary transit...
The secondary eclipse of CoRoT-1b (2009)
Alonso, R., Alapini, A., Aigrain, S., Auvergne, M., Baglin, A., Barbieri, M., ...
The transiting planet CoRoT-1b is thought to belong to the pM-class of planets, in which the thermal emission dominates in the optical wavelengths. We present a detection of its secondary eclipse in...
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....
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....
Noise properties of the CoRoT data: a planet-finding perspective (2009)
Aigrain, S., Pont, F., Fressin, F., Alapini, A., Alonso, R., Auvergne, M., ...
In this short paper, we study the photometric precision of stellar light curves obtained by the CoRoT satellite in its planet finding channel, with a particular emphasis on the timescales...
Noise properties of the CoRoT data. A planet-finding perspective (2009)
Aigrain, S, Pont, F, Fressin, F, Alapini, A, Alonso, R, Auvergne, M, ...
Deeg, H J, Gillon, Michaël, Shporer, A, Rouan, D, Stecklum, B, Aigrain, S, ...
The motivation, techniques and performance of the ground-based photometric follow-up of transit detections by the CoRoT space mission are presented. Its principal raison d’être arises from the...
Deleuil, M, Deeg, H J, Alonso, R, Bouchy, F, Rouan, D, Auvergne, M, ...
Context: The CoRoT space mission routinely provides high-precision photometric measurements of thousands of stars that have been continuously observed for months. Aims: The discovery and...
Moutou, C, Bruntt, H, Guillot, T, Shporer, A, Guenther, E, Aigrain, S, ...
Aims. The CoRoT satellite has announced its fourth transiting planet (Aigrain et al. 2008, A&A, 488, L43) with space photometry. We describe and analyse complementary observations of this system...
Aigrain, S, Collier Cameron, A, Ollivier, M, Pont, F, Jorda, L, Almenara, J M, ...
CoRoT, the first space-based transit search, provides ultra-high-precision light curves with continuous time-sampling over periods of up to 5 months. This allows the detection of transiting planets...
Aigrain, S., Cameron, A. Collier, Ollivier, M., Pont, F., Jorda, L., Almenara, J. M., ...
CoRoT, the first space-based transit search, provides ultra-high precision light curves with continuous time-sampling over periods, of up to 5 months. This allows the detection of transiting planets...
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...
Alonso, R, Auvergne, M, Baglin, A, Ollivier, M, Moutou, C, Rouan, D, ...
Context: The CoRoT mission, a pioneer in exoplanet searches from space, has completed its first 150 days of continuous observations of ~12 000 stars in the galactic plane. An analysis of the raw data...
Detecting transits from Earth-sized planets around Sun-like stars (2008)
Context. Detecting regular dips in the light curve of a star is an easy way to detect the presence of an orbiting planet. COROT is a Franco-European mission launched at the end of 2006, and one of...
Barge, P., Baglin, A., Auvergne, M., Rauer, H., Leger, A., Schneider, J., ...
Context. The pioneer space mission for photometric planet searches, CoRoT, steadily monitors about 12,000 stars in each of its fields of view; it is able to detect transit candidates early in the...
Alonso, R., Auvergne, M., Baglin, A., Ollivier, M., Moutou, C., Rouan, D., ...
Context. The CoRoT mission, a pioneer in exoplanet searches from space, has completed its first 150 days of continuous observations of ~12000 stars in the galactic plane. An analysis of the raw data...
Bouchy, F., Queloz, D., Deleuil, M., Loeillet, B., Hatzes, A. P., Aigrain, S., ...
We report on the spectroscopic transit of the massive hot-Jupiter CoRoT-Exo-2b observed with the high-precision spectrographs SOPHIE and HARPS. By modeling the radial velocity anomaly occurring...
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...
Arjan Lambertus Mieremet, Dr. M. Fridlund, Estec Noordwijk
for direct exo-planet detection
Bouchy, F., Queloz, D., Deleuil, M., Loeillet, B., Hatzes, A., Aigrain, S., ...
We report on the spectroscopic transit of the massive hot-Jupiter CoRoT-Exo-2b observed with the high-precision spectrographs SOPHIE and HARPS. By modeling the radial velocity anomaly occurring...
Alonso, R., Auvergne, M., Baglin, A., Ollivier, M., Moutou, C., Rouan, D., ...
Context. The CoRoT mission, a pioneer in exoplanet searches from space, has completed its first 150 days of continuous observations of ~12 000 stars in the galactic plane. An analysis of the raw data...
Moutou, C, Bruntt, H, Guillot, T, Shporer, A, Günther, E, Aigrain, S, ...
Deleuil, M, Deeg, H, Alonso, R, Bouchy, F, Rouan, D, Auvergne, M, ...
GENIE: a ground-based European nulling instrument at ESO Very Large Telescope Interferometer (2008)
Gondoin, P., Hartog, R. Den, Fridlund, M., Fabry, P., Stankov, A., Peacock, A., ...
Darwin is one of the most challenging space projects ever considered by the European Space Agency (ESA). Its principal objectives are to detect Earth-like planets around nearby stars, to analyze the...
Potential of space-based infrared Bracewell interferometers for planet detection (2007)
Defrere, Denis, Absil, Olivier, Hanot, Charles, Fridlund, M
The Darwin and TPF-I space missions will be able to study the atmosphere of distant worlds similar to the Earth. Flying these space-based interferometers will however be an extraordinary...
Kaltenegger, L, Fridlund, M., Karlsson, A.
The requirements on space missions designed to study Terrestrial exoplanets are discussed. We then investigate whether the design of such a mission, specifically the Darwin nulling interferometer,...
Characteristics of proposed 3 and 4 telescope configurations for Darwin and TPF-I (2006)
The Darwin and TPF-I missions are Infrared free flying interferometer missions based on nulling interferometry. Their main objective is to detect and characterize other Earth-like planets, analyze...
Detectability of dirty dust grains in brown dwarf atmospheres (2006)
Helling, CH., Woitke, P., Fridlund, M.
Dust clouds influence the atmospheric structure of brown dwarfs, and they affect the heat transfer and change the gas-phase chemistry. However, the physics of their formation and evolution is not...
The discovery of an expanding X-ray source in the HH 154 protostellar jet (2006)
Favata, F., Bonito, R., Micela, G., Fridlund, M., Orlando, S., Sciortino, S., ...
We have performed, in October 2005, a deep Chandra X-ray observation of HH 154. Comparison with the previous (2001) Chandra observation allows to detect proper motion down to the level predicted by...
Report by the ESA-ESO Working Group on Extra-Solar Planets (2005)
Perryman, M., Hainaut, O., Dravins, D., Leger, A., Quirrenbach, A., Rauer, H., ...
Various techniques are being used to search for extra-solar planetary signatures, including accurate measurement of radial velocity and positional (astrometric) displacements, gravitational...
Report by the ESA-ESO Working Group on Extra-Solar Planets (2005)
Perryman, M., Hainhaut, O., Dravins, D., Léger, A., Quirrenbach, A., Rauer, H., ...
Various techniques are being used to search for extra-solar planetary signatures, including accurate measurement of radial velocity and positional (astrometric) displacements, gravitational...
IRSI-DARWIN: How to see through the interplanetary dust cloud (2001)
Landgraf, M., Jehn, R., Flury, W., Fridlund, M., Karlsson, A., L{é}ger, A.
ESA has identified interferometry as one of the major goals of the Horizon 2000+ programme. Infrared interferometers are a highly sensitive astronomical instruments that enable us to observe...