Search Results - "Gillon, Michael"
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A map of the large day–night temperature gradient of a super-Earth exoplanet
Published in Nature (London) (14-04-2016)“…A longitudinal thermal brightness map of the super-Earth exoplanet 55 Cancri e reveals strong day–night temperature contrast, indicating inefficient heat…”
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Temperate Earth-sized planets transiting a nearby ultracool dwarf star
Published in Nature (London) (12-05-2016)“…Three Earth-sized planets—receiving similar irradiation to Venus and Earth, and ideally suited for atmospheric study—have been found transiting a nearby…”
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A combined transmission spectrum of the Earth-sized exoplanets TRAPPIST-1 b and c
Published in Nature (London) (01-09-2016)“…Two exoplanet atmospheres examined This paper reports Hubble Space Telescope observations of the inner two of three Earth-sized exoplanets that were recently…”
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Stellar Parameters for Trappist-1
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-01-2018)“…TRAPPIST-1 is an ultracool dwarf star transited by seven Earth-sized planets, for which thorough characterization of atmospheric properties, surface conditions…”
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Water loss from terrestrial planets orbiting ultracool dwarfs: implications for the planets of TRAPPIST-1
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-01-2017)“…Ultracool dwarfs (UCD; T^sub eff^ < ~3000 K) cool to settle on the main sequence after ~1 Gyr. For brown dwarfs, this cooling never stops. Their habitable…”
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No thick carbon dioxide atmosphere on the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c
Published in Nature (London) (24-08-2023)“…Seven rocky planets orbit the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, providing a unique opportunity to search for atmospheres on small planets outside the Solar System…”
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The Ultracool SpeXtroscopic Survey. I. Volume-limited Spectroscopic Sample and Luminosity Function of M7−L5 Ultracool Dwarfs
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-10-2019)“…We present a volume-limited, spectroscopically verified sample of M7−L5 ultracool dwarfs (UCDs) within 25 pc. The sample contains 410 sources, of which 93%…”
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HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE NEAR-IR TRANSMISSION SPECTROSCOPY OF THE SUPER-EARTH HD 97658B
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-10-2014)“…Recent results from the Kepler mission indicate that super-Earths (planets with masses between 1-10 times that of the Earth) are the most common kind of planet…”
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Updated Spectral Characteristics for the Ultracool Dwarf TRAPPIST-1
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-07-2024)“…Abstract A comprehensive infrared spectroscopic study of star TRAPPIST-1 is a crucial step toward the detailed examination of its planets. While the presence…”
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THE BANANA PROJECT. V. MISALIGNED AND PRECESSING STELLAR ROTATION AXES IN CV VELORUM
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-04-2014)“…As part of the Binaries Are Not Always Neatly Aligned project (BANANA), we have found that the eclipsing binary CV Velorum has misaligned rotation axes. Based…”
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SPECULOOS Northern Observatory: Searching for Red Worlds in the Northern Skies
Published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (01-10-2022)“…Abstract SPECULOOS is a ground-based transit survey consisting of six identical 1 m robotic telescopes. The immediate goal of the project is to detect…”
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WASP-128b: a transiting brown dwarf in the dynamical-tide regime
Published 01-12-2018“…Massive companions in close orbits around G dwarfs are thought to undergo rapid orbital decay due to runaway tidal dissipation. We report here the discovery of…”
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prose: a python framework for modular astronomical images processing
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (09-12-2021)“…ABSTRACT To reduce and analyse astronomical images, astronomers can rely on a wide range of libraries providing low-level implementations of legacy algorithms…”
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TOI-3235 b: A Transiting Giant Planet around an M4 Dwarf Star
Published in Astrophysical journal. Letters (01-03-2023)“…Abstract We present the discovery of TOI-3235 b, a short-period Jupiter orbiting an M dwarf with a stellar mass close to the critical mass at which stars…”
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BEBOP II: sensitivity to sub-Saturn circumbinary planets using radial-velocities
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (23-02-2022)“…ABSTRACT BEBOP is a radial-velocity survey that monitors a sample of single-lined eclipsing binaries, in search of circumbinary planets by using…”
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Hubble Space Telescope search for the transit of the Earth-mass exoplanet α Centauri B b
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-06-2015)“…Results from exoplanet surveys indicate that small planets (super-Earth size and below) are abundant in our Galaxy. However, little is known about their…”
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An upper limit on late accretion and water delivery in the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system
Published in Nature astronomy (01-01-2022)“…The TRAPPIST-1 system contains seven roughly Earth-sized planets locked in a multiresonant orbital configuration 1 , 2 , which has enabled precise measurements…”
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SPITZER TRANSITS OF THE SUPER-EARTH GJ1214b AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ITS ATMOSPHERE
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-03-2013)“…We observed the transiting super-Earth exoplanet GJ1214b using warm Spitzer at 4.5 mu m wavelength during a 20 day quasi-continuous sequence in 2011 May. The…”
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The EBLM project X. Benchmark masses, radii, and temperatures for two fully convective M-dwarfs using K2
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-06-2023)“…ABSTRACT M-dwarfs are the most abundant stars in the galaxy and popular targets for exoplanet searches. However, their intrinsic faintness and complex spectra…”
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(6478) Gault: physical characterization of an active main-belt asteroid
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-07-2021)“…ABSTRACT In 2018 December, the main-belt asteroid (6478) Gault was reported to display activity. Gault is an asteroid belonging to the Phocaea dynamical family…”
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