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Article
The PLATO 2.0 mission
PLATO 2.0 has recently been selected for ESA’s M3 launch opportunity (2022/24). Providing accurate key planet parameters (radius, mass, density and age) in statistical numbers, it addresses fundamental questio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Milli-arcsecond Astrophysics with VSI, the VLTI Spectro-imager in the ELT Era
Nowadays, compact sources relatively warm like surfaces of nearby stars, circumstellar environments of stars from early stages to the most evolved ones and surroundings of active galactic nuclei can be investi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Prospects for Near-infrared Characterisation of Hot Jupiters with the VLTI Spectro-imager (VSI)
Since the discovery of the first exoplanet around 51 Pegasi, the study of planetary systems receives an increasing attention, with the development and test of more and more detection techniques. Among the dire...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Planet Detection Around M Dwarfs: New Constraints on Planet Formation Models
The dependence of planetary statistics on the physical conditions during the initial stages of the system (i.e. in the proto-planetary disk) represent an essential constraint on planetary formation mechanisms....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
In Quest of Very Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs with Near-IR Surveys
Deep large scale near-infrared surveys have started revolutionizing the study of very low mass stars and brown dwarfs (hereafter VLMS and BD) by producing, for the first time, statistically significant samples...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Molecular Envelopes of Planetary Nebulae
We report the results of an extensive survey of molecular gas in planetary nebulae (PNe) using the millimeter lines of CO. The observations provide a range of information on the kinematics, the structure, and ...
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Article
Inhibition of giant-planet formation by rapid gas depletion around young stars
ALTHOUGH stars form from clouds of gas and dust, there are insig-nificant amounts of gas around ordinary (Sun-like) stars. This suggests that hydrogen and helium, the primary constituents of planets such as Ju...
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Article
DENIS: A deep near-infrared survey of the southern sky
The DENIS project is the first attempt to carry out a complete digitized survey of the southern sky in the range 1–2.5µm. The main objectives of the programme and the main specifications of the camera and of the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
DENIS: A Deep Near-Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky
The DENIS project is the first attempt to carry out a complete digitized survey of the southern sky in the range 1–2.5 μm. The main objectives of the programme and the main specifications of the camera and of the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Spatio-Kinematic Structure of the CO Envelopes in Evolved Planetary Nebulae
We report high angular resolution map** of the CO (J=2→1 and 1→0) lines in three evolved planetary nebulae (PNe): NGC 6781, NGC 6772, and VV 47. The CO 2→1 observations of the ring-like nebula NGC 6781 provide ...