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A highly unequal-mass eclipsing M-dwarf binary in the WFCAM Transit Survey

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 431:4 (2013) 3240-3257

Authors:

SV Nefs, JL Birkby, IAG Snellen, ST Hodgkin, BM Sipőcz, G Kovács, D Mislis, DJ Pinfield, EL Martin
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Detection of carbon monoxide in the high-resolution day-side spectrum of the exoplanet HD 189733b⋆

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 554 (2013) a82

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RJ de Kok, M Brogi, IAG Snellen, J Birkby, S Albrecht, EJW de Mooij
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Kepler-77b: a very low albedo, Saturn-mass transiting planet around a metal-rich solar-like star

(2013)

Authors:

D Gandolfi, H Parviainen, M Fridlund, AP Hatzes, HJ Deeg, A Frasca, AF Lanza, PG Prada Moroni, E Tognelli, A McQuillan, S Aigrain, R Alonso, V Antoci, J Cabrera, L Carone, Sz Csizmadia, AA Djupvik, EW Guenther, J Jessen-Hansen, A Ofir, J Telting
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The SOAPS project - Spin-orbit alignment of planetary systems: Exoplanets' evolution histories in systems with different architectures

EPJ Web of Conferences 47 (2013)

Authors:

F Faedi, YGM Chew, L Fossati, D Pollacco, A McQuillan, L Hebb, WJ Chaplin, S Aigrain

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The wealth of information rendered by Kepler planets and planet candidates is indispensable for statistically significant studies of distinct planet populations, in both single and multiple systems. Empirical evidences suggest that Kepler's planet population shows different physical properties as compared to the bulk of known exoplanets. The SOAPS project, aims to shed light on Kepler's planets formation, their migration and architecture. By measuring v sini accurately for Kepler hosts with rotation periods measured from their high-precision light curves, we will assess the alignment of the planetary orbit with respect to the stellar spin axis. This degree of alignment traces the formation history and evolution of the planetary systems, and thus, allows to distinguish between different proposed migration theories. SOAPS will increase by a factor of 2 the number of spin-orbit alignment measurements pushing the parameters space down to the SuperEarth domain. Here we present our preliminary results. © Owned by the authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2013.
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The Warming Papers The Scientific Foundation for the Climate Change Forecast

John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Authors:

David Archer, Raymond Pierrehumbert

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Global warming is arguably the defining scientific issue of modern times, but it is not widely appreciated that the ... together the classic scientific papers that are the scientific foundation for the forecast of global warming and its consequences.