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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
SPIRou: A nIR Spectropolarimeter/High-precision Velocimeter for the CFHT
SPIRou is a near-infrared (nIR) spectropolarimeter/velocimeter for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) that will focus on two forefront science topics, (i) the quest for habitable Earthlike planets aroun...
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Article
A hot Jupiter orbiting a 2-million-year-old solar-mass T Tauri star
The radial velocities of a young star are measured, revealing the presence of a planet of mass about three-quarters that of Jupiter, orbiting its host star very closely, and thus demonstrating that ‘hot Jupite...
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Aperçu du diagnostic préimplantatoire actuel en France
Le diagnostic préimplantatoire est pratiqué depuis plus de dix ans en France. Durant cette période, environ 2000 tentatives pour des couples à risque ont permis la naissance de plus 300 enfants sains.
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Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission Resolving the nature of transit candidates for the LRa03 and SRa03 fields
CoRoT is a space telescope which aims at studying internal structure of stars and detecting extrasolar planets. We present here a list of transits detected in the light curves of stars ob...
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Erratum to: “Exoplanet discoveries with the CoRoT space observatory”
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Exoplanet discoveries with the CoRoT space observatory
The CoRoT space observatory is a project which is led by the French space agency CNES and leading space research institutes in Austria, Brazil, Belgium, Germany and Spain and also the European Space Agency ESA...
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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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Chapter and Conference Paper
SPHERE: A ‘Planet Finder’ Instrument for the VLT
SPHERE (Spectro-Polarimetric High-contrast Exoplanet Research) is a second generation instrument for the VLT optimized for the very high-contrast imaging around bright stars [J.-L. Beuzit, M. Feldt, K. Dohlen ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
High-resolution Spectroscopy of Faint Stars with Transiting Planets
We present a series of studies based on high-resolution UVES/VLT spectroscopy of several faint stars for which a transit by a giant planet has been detected. The spectra were used to derive accurate stellar pa...