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Detection of two new exoplanets with Kepler, SOPHIE and HARPS-N
29 April 2013
An international team of astronomers, including Alexandre Santerne of the EXOEarths team, identified and characterized two new exoplanets, thanks to combined observations from the Kepler space telescope, plus SOPHIE and HARPS-N spectrographs.
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PortugueseA new analytical formula for the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect
1 February 2013
Researchers from the EXOEarths team developed a new analytical expression for the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect, which helps to better model the radial velocity anomalies caused by the presence of transiting planets.
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EnglishPlanet Found in Nearest Star System to Earth
17 October 2012
A European team, led by a member of the EXOEarths team, detected a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system - the nearest to the Sun.
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