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most citedThe PLATO 2.0 Mission

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24 papers

astro-ph.SR2025

Selection and characterisation of the M-dwarf targets in the PLATO Input Catalogue

L. Prisinzano, M. Montalto, G. Piotto +33

The ESA's PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of Stars (PLATO) mission aims to detect planets orbiting around dwarfs and subgiant stars with spectral type F5 or later, including M-…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 93 cited

SWEET-Cat updated. New homogenous spectroscopic parameters

S. G. Sousa, V. Adibekyan, E. Delgado-Mena +14

Context: Exoplanets have now been proven to be very common. The number of its detections continues to grow following the development of better instruments and missions. One key ste…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 10 cited

Planets around evolved intermediate-mass stars in open clusters II. Are there really planets around IC4651No9122, NGC2423No3 and NGC4349No127?

E. Delgado Mena, C. Lovis, N. C. Santos +10

(shorter version)The aim of this work is to search for planets around intermediate-mass stars in open clusters by using RV data obtained with HARPS from an extensive survey with mo…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 17 cited

Disentangling planetary and stellar activity features in the CoRoT-2 light curve

G. Bruno, M. Deleuil, J. -M. Almenara +7

[Abridged] Context. Stellar activity is an important source of systematic errors and uncertainties in the characterization of exoplanets. Most of the techniques used to correct for…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 21 cited

An extreme planetary system around HD219828. One long-period super Jupiter to a hot-neptune host star

N. C. Santos, A. Santerne, J. P. Faria +19

With about 2000 extrasolar planets confirmed, the results show that planetary systems have a whole range of unexpected properties. We present a full investigation of the HD219828 s…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 32 cited

EPIC211089792 b: an aligned and inflated hot jupiter in a young visual binary

A. Santerne, G. Hébrard, J. Lillo-Box +71

In the present paper we report the discovery of a new hot Jupiter, EPIC211089792 b, first detected by the Super-WASP observatory and then by the K2 space mission during its campaig…

astro-ph.EP2016★ 1 cited

An extensive radial velocity survey toward NGC 6253

M. Montalto, C. H. F. Melo, N. C. Santos +6

The old and metal rich open cluster NGC 6253 was observed with the FLAMES multi-object spectrograph during an extensive radial velocity campaign monitoring 317 stars with a median…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 46 cited

Detecting ring systems around exoplanets using high resolution spectroscopy: the case of 51Pegb

N. C. Santos, J. H. C. Martins, G. Boué +13

In this paper we explore the possibility that the recently detected reflected light signal of 51\,Peg\,b could be caused by a ring system around the planet. We use a simple model t…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 34 cited

Further constraints on the optical transmission spectrum of HAT-P-1b

M. Montalto, N. Iro, N. C. Santos +5

We report on novel observations of HAT-P-1 aimed at constraining the optical transmission spectrum of the atmosphere of its transiting Hot-Jupiter exoplanet. Ground-based different…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 88 cited

Evidence for a spectroscopic direct detection of reflected light from 51 Peg b

J. H. C. Martins, N. C. Santos, P. Figueira +11

The detection of reflected light from an exoplanet is a difficult technical challenge at optical wavelengths. Even though this signal is expected to replicate the stellar signal, n…

astro-ph.EP2015★ 34 cited

The EChO science case

Giovanna Tinetti, Pierre Drossart, Paul Eccleston +347

The discovery of almost 2000 exoplanets has revealed an unexpectedly diverse planet population. Observations to date have shown that our Solar System is certainly not representativ…

astro-ph.SR2014★ 41 cited

Spectroscopic parameters for solar-type stars with moderate/high rotation. New parameters for 10 planet-hosts

M. Tsantaki, S. G. Sousa, N. C. Santos +5

Planetary studies demand precise and accurate stellar parameters as input to infer the planetary properties. Different methods often provide different results that could lead to bi…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 52 cited

Improvements on analytic modelling of stellar spots

M. Montalto, G. Boué, M. Oshagh +3

In this work we present the solution of the stellar spot problem using the Kelvin-Stokes theorem. Our result is applicable for any given location and dimension of the spots on the…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 132 cited

Impact of occultations of stellar active regions on transmission spectra: Can occultation of a plage mimic the signature of a blue sky?

M. Oshagh, N. C. Santos, D. Ehrenreich +4

Transmission spectroscopy during planetary transits, which is based on the measurements of the variations of planet-to-star radius ratio as a function of wavelength, is a powerful…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 27 cited

The SOPHIE search for northern extrasolar planets: VI. Three new hot Jupiters in multi-planet extrasolar systems

C. Moutou, G. Hebrard, F. Bouchy +21

We present high-precision radial-velocity measurements of three solar-type stars: HD 13908, HD 159243, and HIP 91258. The observations were made with the SOPHIE spectrograph at the…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 1.3k cited

The PLATO 2.0 Mission

H. Rauer, C. Catala, C. Aerts +159

PLATO 2.0 has recently been selected for ESA's M3 launch opportunity (2022/24). Providing accurate key planet parameters (radius, mass, density and age) in statistical numbers, it…

astro-ph.EP2013★ 117 cited

New and updated stellar parameters for 90 transit hosts. The effect of the surface gravity

A. Mortier, N. C. Santos, S. G. Sousa +5

Context. Precise stellar parameters are crucial in exoplanet research for correctly determining of the planetary parameters. For stars hosting a transiting planet, determining of t…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 70 cited

SOAP-T: A tool to study the light-curve and radial velocity of a system with a transiting planet and a rotating spotted star

M. Oshagh, I. Boisse, G. Boué +4

We present an improved version of SOAP (Boisse et al. 2012) named "SOAP-T", which can generate the radial velocity variations and light-curves for systems consisting of a rotating…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 53 cited

A new analysis of the WASP-3 system: no evidence for an additional companion

M. Montalto, J. Gregorio, G. Boue' +7

In this work we investigate the problem concerning the presence of additional bodies gravitationally bounded with the WASP-3 system. We present eight new transits of this planet an…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 123 cited

Comparing HARPS and Kepler surveys: The alignment of multiple-planet systems

P. Figueira, M. Marmier, G. Boué +6

Aims. We study a subset of the planetary population characterized both by HARPS and Kepler surveys. We compare the statistical properties of planets in systems with m.sin i >5-10 M…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 46 cited

Degeneracy in the characterization of non-transiting planets from transit timing variations

Gwenaël Boué, Mahmoudreza Oshagh, Marco Montalto +1

The transit timing variation (TTV) method allows the detection of non-transiting planets through their gravitational perturbations. Since TTVs are strongly enhanced in systems clos…

astro-ph.SR2012★ 19 cited

Metallicities for 6 nearby open clusters from high-resolution spectra of giant stars. [Fe/H] values for a planet search sample

N. C. Santos, C. Lovis, J. Melendez +3

We present a study of the stellar parameters and iron abundances of 18 giant stars in 6 open clusters. The analysis was based on high-resolution and high-S/N spectra obtained with…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 10 cited

Transit-timing measurements with the model-independent barycenter method: Application to the LHS 6343 system

M. Oshagh, G. Boué, N. Haghighipour +3

We present a model-independent technique for calculating the time of mid-transits. This technique, named "barycenter method", uses the light-curve's symmetry to determine the trans…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 14 cited

Exoplanets transmission spectroscopy: accounting for eccentricity and longitude of periastron. Superwinds in the upper atmosphere of HD209458b?

M. Montalto, N. C. Santos, I. Boisse +3

Context: Several studies have so far placed useful constraints on planetary atmospheric properties using transmission spectrsocopy, and in the case of HD209458b even the radial vel…