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most citedHigh-resolution Imaging of Transiting Extrasolar Planetary systems (HITEP). I. Lucky imaging observations of 101 systems in the southern hemisphere

54 citations

22 papers

physics.geo-ph2021★ 3 cited

Datasets of the solar quiet (Sq) and solar disturbed (SD) variations of the geomagnetic field from the mid latitudinal Magnetic Observatory of Coimbra (Portugal) obtained by different methods

Anna Morozova, Rania Rebbah, Paulo Ribeiro

Here we present datasets of daily variation obtained from the geomagnetic field raw observations recorded at the Coimbra Magnetic Observatory (COI, Portugal) in 2007-2017, covering…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 26 cited

Asteroseismic modelling of solar-type stars: A deeper look at the treatment of initial helium abundance

Benard Nsamba, Nuno Moedas, Tiago L. Campante +7

Detailed understanding of stellar physics is essential towards a robust determination of stellar properties (e.g. radius, mass, and age). Among the vital input physics used in the…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 5 cited

Temporal evolution of short-lived penumbral microjets

A. Siu-Tapia, L. R. Bellot Rubio, D. Orozco Suárez +1

Context. Penumbral microjets are elongated jet-like brightenings observed in the chromosphere above sunspot penumbrae. They are transient events that last from a few seconds to sev…

eess.SP2020

Datasets of ionospheric parameters provided by SCINDA GNSS receiver from Lisbon airport area

Tatiana Barlyaeva, Teresa Barata, Anna Morozova

Here we present datasets provided by a SCINDA GNSS receiver installed in the Lisbon airport area from November of 2014 to July of 2019. The installed equipment is a NovAtel EURO4 w…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 8 cited

Transfer Learning in Spatial-Temporal Forecasting of the Solar Magnetic Field

Eurico Covas

Machine learning techniques have been widely used in attempts to forecast several solar datasets. Most of these approaches employ supervised machine learning algorithms which are,…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 3 cited

OGLE-2015-BLG-1649Lb: A gas giant planet around a low-mass dwarf

Masayuki Nagakane, Chien-Hsiu Lee, Naoki Koshimoto +66

We report the discovery of an exoplanet in microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-1649. The planet/host-star mass ratio is and the projected separation normalized…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 40 cited

Transit timing variations in the WASP-4 planetary system

John Southworth, M. Dominik, U. G. Jorgensen +25

Transits in the planetary system WASP-4 were recently found to occur 80s earlier than expected in observations from the TESS satellite. We present 22 new times of mid-transit that…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 15 cited

Fast Fourier-transform calculation of artificial night sky brightness maps

Salvador Bará, Fabio Falchi, Riccardo Furgoni +1

Light pollution poses a growing threat to optical astronomy, in addition to its detrimental impacts on the natural environment, the intangible heritage of humankind related to the…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 10 cited

From Centaurs to comets - 40 years

Nuno Peixinho, Audrey Thirouin, Stephen C. Tegler +4

In 1977, while Apple II and Atari computers were being sold, a tiny dot was observed in an inconvenient orbit. The minor body 1977 UB, to be named (2060) Chiron, with an orbit betw…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 15 cited

Spitzer Microlensing parallax reveals two isolated stars in the Galactic bulge

Weicheng Zang, Yossi Shvartzvald, Tianshu Wang +90

We report the mass and distance measurements of two single-lens events from the 2017 Spitzer microlensing campaign. The ground-based observations yield the detection of finite-sour…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 17 cited

OGLE-2017-BLG-1186: first application of asteroseismology and Gaussian processes to microlensing

Shun-Sheng Li, Weicheng Zang, Andrzej Udalski +102

We present the analysis of the event OGLE-2017-BLG-1186 from the 2017 Spitzer microlensing campaign. This is a remarkable microlensing event because its source is photometrically b…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 27 cited

Physical properties and transmission spectrum of the WASP-74 planetary system from multi-band photometry

L. Mancini, J. Southworth, P. Molliere +32

We present broad-band photometry of eleven planetary transits of the hot Jupiter WASP-74b, using three medium-class telescopes and employing the telescope-defocussing technique. Mo…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 36 cited

Col-OSSOS: Color and Inclination are Correlated Throughout the Kuiper Belt

Michael Marsset, Wesley C. Fraser, Rosemary E. Pike +12

Both physical and dynamical properties must be considered to constrain the origins of the dynamically excited distant Solar System populations. We present high-precision (g-r) colo…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 52 cited

Col-OSSOS: The Colours of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey

Megan E. Schwamb, Wesley C. Fraser, Michele T. Bannister +15

The Colours of the Outer Solar System Origins Survey (Col-OSSOS) is acquiring near-simultaneous , , and photometry of unprecedented precision with the Gemini North Telesc…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 25 cited

Photons without borders: quantifying light pollution transfer between territories

Salvador Bará, Raul C. Lima

The light pollution levels experienced at any given site generally depend on a wide number of artificial light sources distributed throughout the surrounding territory. Since photo…

cs.NE2018★ 9 cited

Optimal Neural Network Feature Selection for Spatial-Temporal Forecasting

Eurico Covas, Emmanouil Benetos

In this paper, we show empirical evidence on how to construct the optimal feature selection or input representation used by the input layer of a feedforward neural network for the…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 46 cited

Neural Network Forecast of the Sunspot Butterfly Diagram

Eurico Covas, Nuno Peixinho, Joao Fernandes

Using neural networks as a prediction method, we attempt to demonstrate that forecasting of the Sun's sunspot time series can be extended to the spatial-temporal case. We employ th…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 26 cited

First simultaneous microlensing observations by two space telescopes: & reveal a brown dwarf in event OGLE-2015-BLG-1319

Y. Shvartzvald, Z. Li, A. Udalski +90

Simultaneous observations of microlensing events from multiple locations allow for the breaking of degeneracies between the physical properties of the lensing system, specifically…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 8 cited

Many new variable stars discovered in the core of the globular cluster NGC 6715 (M54) with EMCCD observations

R. Figuera Jaimes, D. M. Bramich, N. Kains +38

We show the benefits of using Electron-Multiplying CCDs and the shift-and-add technique as a tool to minimise the effects of the atmospheric turbulence such as blending between sta…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 54 cited

High-resolution Imaging of Transiting Extrasolar Planetary systems (HITEP). I. Lucky imaging observations of 101 systems in the southern hemisphere

D. F. Evans, J. Southworth, P. F. L. Maxted +33

(abridged) Context. Wide binaries are a potential pathway for the formation of hot Jupiters. The binary fraction among host stars is an important discriminator between competing fo…

astro-ph.SR2015★ 54 cited

Mass Measurements of Isolated Objects from Space-based Microlensing

Wei Zhu, S. Calchi Novati, A. Gould +78

We report on the mass and distance measurements of two single-lens events from the 2015 \emph{Spitzer} microlensing campaign. With both finite-source effect and microlens parallax…

physics.geo-ph2015★ 8 cited

Can Core Flows inferred from Geomagnetic Field Models explain the Earth's Dynamo?

Nathanaël Schaeffer, Estelina Lora Silva, Maria Alexandra Pais

We test the ability of large scale velocity fields inferred from geomagnetic secular variation data to produce the global magnetic field of the Earth.Our kinematic dynamo calculati…