Darwin -— an experimental astronomy mission to search for extrasolar planets (2009)
Cockell, Charles S., Herbst, Tom, Léger, Alain, Absil, O., Beichman, Charles, Benz, Willy, ...
As a response to ESA call for mission concepts for its Cosmic Vision 2015–2025 plan, we propose a mission called Darwin. Its primary goal is the study of terrestrial extrasolar planets and the...
Darwin---an experimental astronomy mission to search for extrasolar planets (2009)
Cockell, Charles S, Herbst, Tom, Léger, Alain, Absil, Olivier, Beichman, Charles, Benz, Willy, ...
As a response to ESA call for mission concepts for its Cosmic Vision 2015--2025 plan, we propose a mission called Darwin. Its primary goal is the study of terrestrial extrasolar planets and the...
Moutou, Claire, Hebrard, Guillaume, Bouchy, Francois, Eggenberger, Anne, Boisse, Isabelle, Bonfils, Xavier, ...
We report the detection of the primary transit of the extra-solar planet HD 80606 b, thanks to photometric and spectroscopic observations performed at Observatoire de Haute-Provence, simultaneously...
Behind the Scenes of the Discovery of Two Extrasolar Planets: ESO Large Programme 666 (2008)
Minniti, Dante, Naef, Claudio, Udalski, Andrzej, Pont, Frédéric, Moutou, Claire, Santos, Nuno, ...
This is the story of the Large Programme 666, dedicated to discover sub-stellar objects (extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs), and to measure their masses, radii, and mean densities. We hunt selected...
Security in Distributed Metadata Catalogues (2008)
Abstract. Catalogue Services provide the discovery and location mechanisms that allow users and applications to locate data on Grids. Replication is a highly desirable feature in these services,...
Security in distributed metadata catalogues (2008)
Catalogue Services provide the discovery and location mechanisms that allow users and applications to locate data on Grids. Replication is a highly desirable feature in these services, since it...
A Generic DRM Framework for J2ME Applications (2008)
Recently, a new generation of mobile phones with support for Java has been taking widespread acceptance by the market, creating a business potential for downloadable Java Games and enterprise...
Dynamic Deployment of Services on Mobile Agents Systems (2007)
Mobile agents are avery interesting paradigm for structuring distributed applications. By using them, distributed...
Dynamic Deployment of Services on Mobile Agents Systems (2007)
Nuno Santos, Paulo Marques, Luis Silva
Abstract. Mobile agents are a very interesting paradigm for structuring distributed applications. By using them, distributed applications can implement part of their functionality as a set of...
Pont, Frederic, Moutou, Claire, Gillon, Michael, Udalski, Andrzej, Bouchy, Francois, Fernandes, Joao, ...
Transiting planets are essential to study the structure and evolution of extra-solar planets. For that purpose, it is important to measure precisely the radius of these planets. Here we report new...
Implementação de um compressor JPEG em FPGA (2007)
Santos, Nuno, Silva, Pedro, Esteves, António
Este documento descreve a implementação com pipeline de um compressor JPEG em FPGA. Para isso, apresenta-se a funcionalidade e implementação dos blocos principais da arquitectura do compressor. O...
Pont, Frederic, Moutou, Claire, Gillon, Michael, Udalski, Andrzej, Bouchy, Francois, Fernandes, Joao, ...
Transiting planets are essential to study the structure and evolution of extra-solar planets. For that purpose, it is important to measure precisely the radius of these planets. Here we report new...
The "missing link": a 4-day period transiting exoplanet around OGLE-TR-111 (2006)
Pont, Frederic, Bouchy, Francois, Queloz, Didier, Santos, Nuno, Melo, Claudio, Mayor, Michel, ...
We report the discovery of a transiting hot Jupiter around OGLE-TR-111, from our radial velocity follow-up of OGLE transiting candidates in Carina. The planet has a mass of 0.53 +- 0.11 M_J and a...
Distributed Metadata with the AMGA Metadata Catalog (2006)
Catalog Services play a vital role on Data Grids by allowing users and applications to discover and locate the data needed. On large Data Grids, with hundreds of geographically distributed sites,...
Exploring high performance distributed file storage using LDPC codes (2006)
Gaidioz, Benjamin, Koblitz, Birger, Santos, Nuno
We explore the feasibility of implementing a reliable, high performance, distributed storage system on a commodity computing cluster. Files are distributed across storage nodes using erasure coding...
Guillot, Tristan, Santos, Nuno, Pont, Frédéric, Iro, Nicolas, Melo, Claudio, Ribas, Ignasi
Nine extrasolar planets with masses between 110 and 430M are known to transit their star. The knowledge of their masses and radii allows an estimate of their composition, but uncertainties on...
Guillot, Tristan, Santos, Nuno, Pont, Frédéric, Iro, Nicolas, Melo, Claudio, Ribas, Ignasi
Nine extrasolar planets with masses between 110 and 430M are known to transit their star. The knowledge of their masses and radii allows an estimate of their composition, but uncertainties on...
Guillot, Tristan, Santos, Nuno, Pont, Frédéric, Iro, Nicolas, Melo, Claudio, Ribas, Ignasi
Nine extrasolar planets with masses between 110 and 430M are known to transit their star. The knowledge of their masses and radii allows an estimate of their composition, but uncertainties on...
Guillot, Tristan, Santos, Nuno, Pont, Frédéric, Iro, Nicolas, Melo, Claudio, Ribas, Ignasi
Nine extrasolar planets with masses between 110 and 430M are known to transit their star. The knowledge of their masses and radii allows an estimate of their composition, but uncertainties on...
Bouchy, Francois, Udry, Stephane, Mayor, Michel, Moutou, Claire, Pont, Frederic, Iribarne, Nicolas, ...
Among the 160 known exoplanets, mainly detected in large radial-velocity surveys, only 8 have a characterization of their actual mass and radius thanks to the two complementary methods of detection:...
Bouchy, Francois, Udry, Stephane, Mayor, Michel, Moutou, Claire, Pont, Frederic, Iribarne, Nicolas, ...
Among the 160 known exoplanets, mainly detected in large radial-velocity surveys, only 8 have a characterization of their actual mass and radius thanks to the two complementary methods of detection:...
Bouchy, Francois, Udry, Stephane, Mayor, Michel, Moutou, Claire, Pont, Frederic, Iribarne, Nicolas, ...
Among the 160 known exoplanets, mainly detected in large radial-velocity surveys, only 8 have a characterization of their actual mass and radius thanks to the two complementary methods of detection:...
Bouchy, Francois, Udry, Stephane, Mayor, Michel, Moutou, Claire, Pont, Frederic, Iribarne, Nicolas, ...
Among the 160 known exoplanets, mainly detected in large radial-velocity surveys, only 8 have a characterization of their actual mass and radius thanks to the two complementary methods of detection:...
Bouchy, Francois, Udry, Stephane, Mayor, Michel, Moutou, Claire, Pont, Frederic, Iribarne, Nicolas, ...
Among the 160 known exoplanets, mainly detected in large radial-velocity surveys, only 8 have a characterization of their actual mass and radius thanks to the two complementary methods of detection:...
Bouchy, Francois, Udry, Stephane, Mayor, Michel, Moutou, Claire, Pont, Frederic, Iribarne, Nicolas, ...
Among the 160 known exoplanets, mainly detected in large radial-velocity surveys, only 8 have a characterization of their actual mass and radius thanks to the two complementary methods of detection:...
Bouchy, Francois, Udry, Stephane, Mayor, Michel, Moutou, Claire, Pont, Frederic, Iribarne, Nicolas, ...
Among the 160 known exoplanets, mainly detected in large radial-velocity surveys, only 8 have a characterization of their actual mass and radius thanks to the two complementary methods of detection:...
Bouchy, Francois, Udry, Stephane, Mayor, Michel, Moutou, Claire, Pont, Frederic, Iribarne, Nicolas, ...
Among the 160 known exoplanets, mainly detected in large radial-velocity surveys, only 8 have a characterization of their actual mass and radius thanks to the two complementary methods of detection:...
Metadata Services on the Grid (2005)
this paper we describe an interface for Metadata Services that we have developed based on our experience with testing a number of custom metadata services used by several LHC collaborations at CERN....
The "missing link": a 4-day period transiting exoplanet around OGLE-TR-111 (2004)
Pont, Frederic, Bouchy, Francois, Queloz, Didier, Santos, Nuno, Melo, Claudio, Mayor, Michel, ...
We report the discovery of a transiting hot Jupiter around OGLE-TR-111, from our radial velocity follow-up of OGLE transiting candidates in Carina. The planet has a mass of 0.53 +- 0.11 M_J and a...
The "missing link": a 4-day period transiting exoplanet around OGLE-TR-111 (2004)
Pont, Frederic, Bouchy, Francois, Queloz, Didier, Santos, Nuno, Melo, Claudio, Mayor, Michel, ...
We report the discovery of a transiting hot Jupiter around OGLE-TR-111, from our radial velocity follow-up of OGLE transiting candidates in Carina. The planet has a mass of 0.53 +- 0.11 M_J and a...
The "missing link": a 4-day period transiting exoplanet around OGLE-TR-111 (2004)
Pont, Frederic, Bouchy, Francois, Queloz, Didier, Santos, Nuno, Melo, Claudio, Mayor, Michel, ...
We report the discovery of a transiting hot Jupiter around OGLE-TR-111, from our radial velocity follow-up of OGLE transiting candidates in Carina. The planet has a mass of 0.53 +- 0.11 M_J and a...
Loosely-Coupled, Mobile Replication of Objects with Transactions (2004)
Lu Veiga Nuno, Luís Veiga, Nuno Santos, Ricardo Lebre, Paulo Ferreira
Advances in wireless technology and affordable infoappliances are making mobile computing a reality. However, programmers do have a real hard task while developing mobile distributed applications in...
Lithium in stars with exoplanets (2003)
Israelian, Garik, Santos, Nuno, Mayor, Michel, Rebolo, Rafael
We present a comparison of the lithium abundances of stars with and without planetary-mass companions. New lithium abundances are reported in 79 planet hosts and 38 stars from a comparison sample....
Israelian, Garik, Santos, Nuno, Mayor, Michel, Rebolo, Rafael
The presence of possible blends in the spectral region of the Li resonance line at 6708 A in solar-type metal-rich stars is investigated using high resolution and high signal-to-noise spectroscopic...
A Framework for Smart Proxies and Interceptors in RMI (2002)
Nuno Santos, Paulo Marques, Luis Silva
Abstract. The Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) API shields the developer from the details of distributed programming, allowing him to concentrate on application specific code. But to perform some...
The Security Architecture of the M&M Mobile Agent Framework (2001)
Paulo Marques, Nuno Santos, Luís Silva, Joãog. Silva
In the Mobile Agent programming model, small threads of execution migrate from machine to machine, performing their operations locally. For being able to deploy such a model into real world...