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An Earth-sized exoplanet with a Mercury-like composition
Earth, Venus, Mars and some extrasolar terrestrial planets1 have a mass and radius that is consistent with a mass fraction of about 30% metallic core and 70% silicate mantle2. At the inner frontier of the Solar S...
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A dedicated mission to investigate exoplanetary atmospheres represents a major milestone in our quest to understand our place in the universe by placing our Solar System in context and by addressing the suitab...
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Erratum to: “Exoplanet discoveries with the CoRoT space observatory”
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A transiting giant planet with a temperature between 250 K and 430 K
About 70 of the more than 400 known extrasolar planets transit their central star, making it possible to observe their atmospheres and determine various key parameters. The transiting extra-solar planets so fa...
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Exoplanets: The Road to Earth Twins
Recent HARPS discoveries have demonstrated that very quiet stars exist, with intrinsic radial-velocity variations below 1 m s−1. These results allow us in particular to characterize an emerging new population of ...
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ESPRESSO: A High Resolution Spectrograph for the Combined Coudé Focus of the VLT
In the frame of the call for proposal for the E-ELT instrumentation studies, the CODEX team carried out the feasibility study for a spectrograph for extremely stable Doppler measurements. The CODEX project and...
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ESPRESSO Science Software
We present concepts for the software that will be used by scientists to prepare and launch their observations with ESPRESSO, then reduce and analyse their data. The ESPRESSO science software is mainly divided ...
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From ESPRESSO to CODEX
CODEX and ESPRESSO are concepts for ultra-stable, high-resolution spectrographs at the E-ELT and VLT, respectively. Both instruments are well motivated by distinct sets of science drivers. However, ESPRESSO wi...
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High Resolution and High Precision-Spectroscopy with HARPS
Extra-solar planet search at a level of precision below 1 ms$-1$ sets strong requirements to the quality and stability of the wavelength solution. It also forces us to understand the effects of instrumental stabi...
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Codex
Many talks in this conference have shown the power of high resolution spectroscopy, coupled to high precision. A new spectrograph, fed by an Extremely Large Telescope, will have such a huge collecting power th...
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Pushing Down the Limits of the Radial Velocity Technique
We present results from the first three years of operations of the HARPS spectrograph installed on the ESO-3.6m telescope at La Silla Observatory, Chile. This instrument, primarily built to detect extrasolar p...
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A Correlation Between the Activity Level and the Radial-velocity for Solar-type Stars?
In this paper we present preliminary results suggesting the existence of a correlation between the systemic radial velocity of solar-type stars and their activity level.