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most citedSeven temperate terrestrial planets around the nearby ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1

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astro-ph.EP2017★ 109 cited

Temporal evolution of the high-energy irradiation and water content of TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets

V. Bourrier, J. de Wit, E. Bolmont +13

The ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 hosts seven Earth-size transiting planets, some of which could harbour liquid water on their surfaces. UV observations are essential to measure…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 19 cited

The Future of Stardust Science

A. J. Westphal, J. C. Bridges, D. E. Brownlee +13

Recent observations indicate that >99% of the small bodies in the Solar System reside in its outer reaches --- in the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud. Kuiper Belt bodies are probably th…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 1.6k cited

Seven temperate terrestrial planets around the nearby ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1

Michael Gillon, Amaury H. M. J. Triaud, Brice-Olivier Demory +27

One focus of modern astronomy is to detect temperate terrestrial exoplanets well-suited for atmospheric characterisation. A milestone was recently achieved with the detection of th…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 368 cited

A seven-planet resonant chain in TRAPPIST-1

Rodrigo Luger, Marko Sestovic, Ethan Kruse +30

The TRAPPIST-1 system is the first transiting planet system found orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf star. At least seven planets similar to Earth in radius and in mass were previously f…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 669 cited

OSIRIS-REx: Sample Return from Asteroid (101955) Bennu

D. S. Lauretta, S. S. Balram-Knutson, E. Beshore +45

In May of 2011, NASA selected the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) asteroid sample return mission as the third…