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

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astro-ph.EP2017★ 8 cited

Isotopic ratios in outbursting comet C/2015 ER61

Bin Yang, Damien Hutsemekers, Yoshiharu Shinnaka +7

Isotopic ratios in comets are critical to understanding the origin of cometary material and the physical and chemical conditions in the early solar nebula. Comet C/2015 ER61 (PANST…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 85 cited

Stellar parameters for TRAPPIST-1

Valerie Van Grootel, Catarina S. Fernandes, Michaël Gillon +10

TRAPPIST-1 is an ultracool dwarf star transited by seven Earth-sized planets, for which thorough characterization of atmospheric properties, surface conditions encompassing habitab…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 34 cited

High-precision multi-wavelength eclipse photometry of the ultra-hot gas giant exoplanet WASP-103 b

L. Delrez, N. Madhusudhan, M. Lendl +14

We present sixteen occultation and three transit light curves for the ultra-short period hot Jupiter WASP-103 b, in addition to five new radial velocity measurements. We combine th…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 22 cited

SPECULOOS exoplanet search and its prototype on TRAPPIST

Artem Burdanov, Laetitia Delrez, Michaël Gillon +1

One of the most significant goals of modern science is establishing whether life exists around other suns. The most direct path towards its achievement is the detection and atmosph…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 80 cited

The Main Belt Comets and Ice in the Solar System

Colin Snodgrass, Jessica Agarwal, Michael Combi +11

We review the evidence for buried ice in the asteroid belt; specifically the questions around the so-called Main Belt Comets (MBCs). We summarise the evidence for water throughout…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 36 cited

The Castalia Mission to Main Belt Comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro

C. Snodgrass, G. H. Jones, H. Boehnhardt +41

We describe Castalia, a proposed mission to rendezvous with a Main Belt Comet (MBC), 133P/Elst-Pizarro. MBCs are a recently discovered population of apparently icy bodies within th…