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20202026
most citedPhotometry and Performance of SPECULOOS-South

41 citations · 129 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

MIRA: a data management and education platform connecting students to robotic telescopes

Peter P. Pedersen, Lionel Garcia, Mahshid Alimi +3

Hands-on telescope experience is often used to drive student engagement in astronomy education, but scaling access to larger groups of students is operationally challenging. Conseq…

astro-ph.IM2026

Astra: an open-source fully autonomous robotic observatory control software

Peter P. Pedersen, David Degen, Lionel Garcia +12

Robotic and autonomous observatories are critical for modern time-domain and high-cadence astronomical surveys. The operation of these facilities requires complex software coordina…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

SPECULOOS: five years hunting terrestrial planets around ultra-cool dwarfs

Sebastián Zúñiga-Fernández, Michael Gillon, SPECULOOS consortium

The SPECULOOS (Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars) project aims to detect temperate terrestrial planets transiting nearby ultracool dwarfs, including late M-dw…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 7 cited

Infrared photometry with InGaAs detectors: First light with SPECULOOS

Peter P. Pedersen, Didier Queloz, Lionel Garcia +15

We present the photometric performance of SPIRIT, a ground-based near-infrared InGaAs CMOS-based instrument (1280 by 1024 pixels, 12 micron pitch), using on-sky results from the SP…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 16 cited

Detection of an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting the nearby ultracool dwarf star SPECULOOS-3

Michaël Gillon, Peter P. Pedersen, Benjamin V. Rackham +81

Located at the bottom of the main sequence, ultracool dwarf stars are widespread in the solar neighbourhood. Nevertheless, their extremely low luminosity has left their planetary p…

astro-ph.EP2024

nuance: Efficient detection of planets transiting active stars

Lionel Garcia, Daniel Foreman-Mackey, Catriona A. Murray +3

The detection of planetary transits in the light curves of active stars, featuring correlated noise in the form of stellar variability, remains a challenge. Depending on the noise…