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Major Scientific Discovery on Extrasolar Planets. NATURE, the scientific journal, will publish on the 26 January 2006, a major paper on a discovery addressing extra-solar planets. The European Southern Observatory ESO contributed to this publication and has produced a Video Ne...

European and American scientists say they have photographed a planet outside the Solar System for the first time. The European Southern Observatory group said the red image is the first direct shot of a planet around another star. The planet, known as 2M1207b, is about five times the size of Jupiter...

Proving that the mysteries of space attract dollars as well as enthusiasts, astronomer Christopher Tinney has picked up a million-dollar grant to search for worlds beyond our solar system. "It's very pleasing to be successful in such a tough competition" - Dr Christopher Tinney, Ang...

An international team of astronomers led by François Bouchy has announced the discovery of a new transiting extra-solar planet. The planet HD189733b, in the constellation Vulpecula, was detected and studied by the combination of two different methods, radial velocities and photome...

Researchers have discovered a Neptune-mass planet around the M dwarf star Gl 581 (Spectral Type M3V, 0.31 solar masses), using precise Doppler measurements with the HARPS spectrograph at the La Silla Observatory. The observed radial velocities reveal a circular orbit with a p...

The smallest planet circling a main sequence star has been found. High precision, high cadence radial velocity monitoring over the past 8 years at the W. M. Keck Observatory reveals evidence for a third planet orbiting the nearby (4.69 pc) dM4 star GJ 876 (HIP 113020). The r...

Double sun sunset no longer science fiction An international research team from University of Jena (Germany), Nagoya University, and Harvard-Smithsonian Centre (USA) has recently obtained the first direct images of the second "Sun" around a planet-hosting star, gam Cep, using the...

Title: HAT-P-5b: A Jupiter-like hot Jupiter Transiting a Bright Star Authors: G. A. Bakos (1,2), A. Shporer (3), A. Pal (4,1), G. Torres (1), Geza Kovacs (5), D. W. Latham (1), T. Mazeh (3), A. Ofir (3), R. W. Noyes (1), D. D. Sasselov (1), F. Bouchy (7), F. Pont (6), D. Queloz (6), S. Udry (6), G. Esquerdo...

Physical parameters of the upper atmosphere of the extrasolar planet HD209458b Every 3.5 days, the transits of the gaseous planet orbiting the star HD209458 offer the unique opportunity to investigate the spectral features of an extra-solar planetary atmosphere. The st...

It is only a matter of time before astronomers find an Earth-sized planet orbiting a distant star. When they do, the first questions people will ask are: Is it habitable? And even more importantly, is there life present on it already? For clues to the answers, scientists are looking to their home plan...

News Briefing: Scientists Make New Discovery About Planets Outside Our Solar System. • Michael Turner, head of NSF's Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences • Geoffrey Marcy, University of California, Berkeley • Paul Butler, Carnegie Institution of...

Astronomers detect red giant survivor planet 10 billion years old Italian astronomers have detected a planet that survived the red giant expansion of its home star. The researchers say that the discovery could be a sneak peek at the fate that awaits the Earth, some four or five billion years from now...

NASA researchers recently discovered the largest solid core ever found in an extrasolar planet, and their discovery confirms a planet formation theory. "For theorists, the discovery of a planet with such a large core is as important as the discovery of the first extrasolar planet around t...

Giant stars with planets often have smaller amounts of heavy elements than the Sun, say astronomers in the United States and Germany. This trend is surprising: it is opposite the one seen in planet-bearing main-sequence stars and suggests stars more massive than the Sun may give birth to planets in...

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope will hold a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Wednesday, April 5 to announce the discovery of a strange place where planets might be forming. Astronomers have found five stellar corpses that appear to be swallowing asteroids that once orbite...

Title: Limits on further planetary companions to OGLE-2005-BLG-390L Authors: D. Kubas, A. Cassan, M. Dominik, D. Bennett, et al We investigate constraints on further planets orbiting the distant M-dwarf star OGLE-2005-BLG-390L, around which photometric microlensing data revealed the exis...

Title: WASP-3b: a strongly-irradiated transiting gas-giant planet Authors: D. Pollacco, I. Skillen, A. Collier Cameron, B. Loeillet, H.C. Stempels, F. Bouchy, N.P. Gibson, L. Hebb, G. Hebrard, Y.C. Joshi, I. McDonald, B. Smalley, A.M.S. Smith, R.A. Street, S. Udry, R.G. West, D.M. Wilson, P.J...

Transiting planet with the largest orbital period (21.2 day) Name HD 17156 b Discovered in2007 M.sin i3.08 MJ Semi major axis0.15 AU Orbital period21.2 (± 0.3) days Eccentricity0.67 (± 0.08) Omega120 (± 11) deg. Radius1.15 (± 0.11) RJ Ttransit2454353.61 Tperi3738.529 (...

Title: Lupus-TR-3b: A Low-Mass Transiting Hot Jupiter in the Galactic Plane? Authors: David T. F. Weldrake (1), Daniel D. R. Bayliss (2), Penny D. Sackett (2), Brandon W. Tingley (3), Michael Gillon (4,5), Johny Setiawan (1) ((1) MPIA, Heidelberg, (2) RSAA, Mount Stromlo Observatory, (3) Instit...

Astronomers say they have found a miniature version of our own solar system 5,000 light years across the galaxy the first planetary system that really looks like our own, with outer giant planets and room for smaller inner planets. The discovery, they said, means that our solar system might be more t...

Queens University Belfast is one of the founding members of the WASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets) Project. While the prototype camera, WASP0, was constructed in 2000, the Project has its roots to development work at the Isaac Newton Group in the mid-1990's through the CoCAM instruments. [url=...

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Exoplanets are of high interest, not only because questions regarding alien life in the universe have accompanied humanity for a long time, but also because studying exoplanetary systems allows to study the past and the future of our own solar system. The first V 391 Peg b was discovered 15 years ago...

Title: WASP-4b: a 12th-magnitude transiting hot-Jupiter in the Southern hemisphere Authors: D.M. Wilson, M. Gillon, C. Hellier, P.F.L. Maxted, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, D.R. Anderson, A. Collier Cameron, B. Smalley, T.A. Lister, S.J. Bentley, A. Blecha, D.J. Christian, B. Enoch, C.A. Haswell, L. He...

Title: Extrasolar planet detection by binary stellar eclipse timing: evidence for a third body around CM Draconis Authors: H. J. Deeg, B. Ocaña1, V. P. Kozhevnikov, D. Charbonneau, F. T. O'Donovan, and L. R. Doyle Aims. Our objective is to elucidate the physical process that causes the observed...

Title: HAT-P-4b: A metal-rich low-density transiting hot Jupiter Authors: G. Kovacs (1), G. A. Bakos (2,3), G. Torres (2), A. Sozzetti (2,4), D. W. Latham (2), R. W. Noyes (2), R. P. Butler (5), G. W. Marcy (6), D. A. Fischer (7), J. M. Fernandez (2), G. Esquerdo (2), D. D. Sasselov (2), R. P. Stefanik (2...

Title: The Disk Around CoKu Tau/4: Circumbinary, not Transitional Authors: M.J. Ireland, A.L. Kraus (Version v2) CoKu Tau/4 has been labelled as one of the very few known transition disk objects: disks around young stars that have their inner disks cleared of dust, arguably due to planetary forma...

Title: Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission I - CoRoT-Exo-1b: a low-density short-period planet around a G0V star Authors: P. Barge, A. Baglin, M. Auvergne, H. Rauer, A. Leger, J. Schneider, F. Pont, S. Aigrain, J.-M. Almenara, R. Alonso, M. Barbieri, P. Borde, F. Bouchy, H.-J. Deeg...

Title: HAT-P-7b: An Extremely Hot Massive Planet Transiting a Bright Star in the Kepler Field Authors: A. Pal (1,2), G. A. Bakos (1,3), G. Torres (1), R. W. Noyes (1), D. W. Latham (1), Geza Kovacs (4), G. W. Marcy (5), D. A. Fischer (6), R. P. Butler (7), D. D. Sasselov (1), B. Sipocz (2,1), G. A. Esquerdo...

Title: WASP-5b: a dense, very-hot Jupiter transiting a 12th-mag Southern-hemisphere star Authors: D. R. Anderson, M. Gillon, C. Hellier, P. F. L. Maxted, F. Pepe, D. Queloz, D. M. Wilson, A. Collier Cameron, B. Smalley, T. A. Lister, S. J. Bentley, A. Blecha, D. J. Christian, B. Enoch, L. Hebb, K. Ho...

An international team of astronomers has found 10 new "extra solar" planets, planets that orbit stars other than our sun. The team used a system of robotic cameras that yield a great deal of information about these other worlds, some of which are quite exotic. The system is expected to rev...

Hundreds of planets have been discovered outside of our solar system, but conspicuously absent from the list are ones that resemble Earth. On 29 and 30 May astronomers and scientists from all around the world will gather in Pasadena to discuss how we might find another Earth, and how we might detect p...

Title: HD 179949b: A Close Orbiting Extrasolar Giant Planet with a stratosphere? Authors: J.R. Barnes, Travis S. Barman, H.R.A. Jones, C.J. Leigh, A. Collier Cameron, R.J. Barber, D.J. Pinfield We have carried out a search for the 2.14 micron spectroscopic signature of the close...

Millisecond Pulsar PSR1257+12 Three small bodies were found in orbit around the pulsar PSR 1257+12. They have been designated "PSR1257+12 AA ..BA and ..C". These planets are believed to have formed after the supernova that produced the pulsar. Distance: 300 pc PSR1257+12.kmz [url=h...

Astronomers have sighted the smallest extrasolar planet yet orbiting a normal star - a distant world just three times the size of our own. Discovering a planet with a similar mass to that of Earth is considered the "holy grail" of research into planets that lie outside our Solar System. It...

Title: HAT-P-9b: A Low Density Planet Transiting a Moderately Faint F star Authors: A. Shporer, G. A. Bakos, F. Bouchy, F. Pont, G. Kovacs, D. W. Latham, B. Sipocz, G. Torres, T. Mazeh, G. A. Esquerdo, A. Pal, R. W. Noyes, D. D. Sasselov, J. Lazar, I. Papp, P. Sari, G. Kovacs We report the discovery of a pl...

Astronomers have discovered a new planet about the same size as Jupiter, it was announced today. The planet, named CoRot-Exo-4b, was spotted by a European space mission. It forms part of the unicorn constellation and lies about 3,000 light years from our solar system. [url=http://www.dailymail...

A cool, Jovian-mass planet, MOA-2007-BLG-400L b, has been discovered using gravitational lensing. MOA-2007-BLG-400-L b is currently 8th Microlensed Planet discovery. Read more

Title: HAT-P-10b: A light and moderately hot Jupiter transiting a K dwarf Authors: G. A. Bakos (1,2), A. Pal (1,4), G. Torres (1), B. Sipocz (1,4), D. W. Latham (1), R. W. Noyes (1), Geza Kovacs (3), J. Hartman (1), G. A. Esquerdo (1), D. A. Fischer (6), J. A. Johnson (7), G. W. Marcy (5), R. P. Butler (8), A...

Title: The sub-Jupiter mass transiting exoplanet WASP-11b Authors: R. G. West, A. Collier Cameron, L. Hebb, Y. C. Joshi, D. Pollacco, E. Simpson, I. Skillen, H. C. Stempels, P. J. Wheatley, D. Wilson, D. Anderson, S. Bentley, F. Bouchy, B. Enoch, N. Gibson, G. Hébrard, C. Hellier, B. Loeillet, M. Ma...

HD 20868b is gas giant with a very eccentric orbit. Read more

HD 131664 is a massive planet 18x the size of Jupiter, with a very eccentric 1951 day orbit. Read more

HD 73267 is 3x the size of Jupiter, with an orbit of 1260 days around a star just hotter than our sun. Read more

BD-17 63b is a 5x Jupiter size-planet with a eccentric, 655-day orbit around its small star. Read more

HD 153950b in the constellation Scorpio, is 2.73x the size of Jupiter, and is a bit further from its star than Earth is, at 1.28AU. Read more

HD 145377b is almost 6x the size of Jupiter and orbits about half an AU from a sunlike star. Read more

Title: WASP-14b: A 7.7 Mjup transiting exoplanet in an eccentric orbit Authors: Y. C. Joshi, D. Pollacco, A. Collier Cameron, I. Skillen, E. Simpson, I. Steele, R. A. Street, H. C. Stempels, F. Bouchy, D. J. Christian, N. P. Gibson, L. Hebb, G. Hebrard, F. P. Keenan, B. Loeillet, J. Meaburn, C...

A group of astronomers at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC) has discovered a huge planet in the star system Gliese 22, Spain's EFE news agency reported Wednesday. The finding has been reported in the Astronomy and Astrophysics magazine. [url=http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php...

Some planets beyond our solar system might be rocky like Earth, but lack its gooey metallic middle, a new study suggests. Such 'coreless' terrestrial planets would not have magnetic fields, which would make them inhospitable to life as we know it. Rocky planets were once thought to consist of three...

HD 43848b is a 25x Jupiter sized planet with an unusual eccentric orbit.

HD 143361b is a 3 Jupiter-mass exoplanet

HD 48265b is a Jupiter sized exoplanet.

Title: WASP-10b: a 3M_J, eccentric transiting gas-giant planet Authors: D.J. Christian, N.P. Gibson, E.K. Simpson, R.A. Street, I. Skillen, D. Pollacco, A. Collier Cameron, H.C. Stempels, C.A. Haswell, K. Horne, Y.C. Joshi, F.P. Keenan, D.R. Anderson, S. Bentley, F. Bouchy, W.I. Clar...

Title: Magnetic activity in the photosphere of CoRoT-Exo-2a. Active longitudes and short-term spot cycle in a young Sun-like star Authors: A. F. Lanza, I. Pagano, G. Leto, S. Messina, S. Aigrain, R. Alonso, M. Auvergne, A. Baglin, P. Barge, A. S. Bonomo, P. Boumier, A. Collier Cameron, M. Comparat...

Two new planetary systems have been imaged in the Milky Way: a star boasting three planetary siblings and another harbouring one at a large distance from its star. Other candidate planets have been imaged near stars. But the new pictures are the first to capture the slow crawl of the planets around th...

HD 181433 b is an extrasolar planet approximately 87 light years away in the constellation Pavo. This planet has mass at least 7.56 times that of Earth, and with an orbital period of 6 Earth years. Read more

HD 183263 is an 8th magnitude subgiant star located approximately 172 light-years away in the constellation Aquila. HD 183263 c is an exoplanet about 4 x Jupiter's mass and with an orbital period of 8 Earth years. Read more

Title: HATNet Field G205: Follow-Up Observations of 28 Transiting-Planet candidates and Confirmation of the Planet HAT-P-8b Authors: David W. Latham (1), Gáspár A. Bakos (1,2), Guillermo Torres (1), Robert P. Stefanik (1), Robert W. Noyes (1), Géza Kovács (3), András Pál (1,4), Geoffrey W. Mar...

Three undergraduate students, from Leiden University in the Netherlands, have discovered an extrasolar planet. The extraordinary find, which turned up during their research project, is about five times as massive as Jupiter. This is also the first planet discovered orbiting a fast-rotating h...

Title: Coreless Terrestrial Exoplanets Authors: L. Elkins-Tanton, S. Seager (MIT) Differentiation in terrestrial planets is expected to include the formation of a metallic iron core. We predict the existence of terrestrial planets that have differentiated but have no metallic core--planet...

HD 139357 is a class K4III star located in the constellation of Draco. On March 20, 2009 an exoplanet, named HD 139357 b, was discovered orbiting around the star. Source

Title: Old, Rich, and Eccentric: Two Jovian Planets Orbiting Evolved Metal-Rich Stars Authors: Kathryn M. G. Peek, John Asher Johnson, Debra A. Fischer, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Gregory W. Henry, Andrew W. Howard, Jason T. Wright, Thomas B. Lowe, Sabine Reffert, Christian Schwab, Peter K. G. Williams...

Title: N-body simulations of planetary accretion around M dwarf stars Authors: Masahiro Ogihara, Shigeru Ida We have investigated planetary accretion from planetesimals in terrestrial planet regions inside the ice line around M dwarf stars through N-body simulations including tidal intera...

Title: Pixel-lensing as a way to detect extrasolar planets in M31 Authors: G. Ingrosso, S. Calchi Novati, F. De Paolis, Ph. Jetzer, A.A. Nucita, A.F. Zakharov We study the possibility to detect extrasolar planets in M31 through pixel-lensing observations. Using a Monte Carlo approach, we select...

Astronomers have found a planet with a galactic case of hot flashes. In just six hours, this planet four times the size of Jupiter heats up by more than 1,200 degrees, according to a study published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. "It's the first observation of changing weather"...

Title: The SOPHIE northern extrasolar planets. I. A companion close to the planet/brown-dwarf transition around HD16760 Authors: F. Bouchy, G. Hebrard, S. Udry, X. Delfosse, I. Boisse, et al We report on the discovery of a substellar companion or a massive Jupiter orbiting the G5V star HD16760 wi...

Title: The Nature of the Atmosphere of the Transiting Super-Earth GJ 1214b Authors: E. Miller-Ricci, J. J. Fortney The newly discovered planet GJ 1214b is the first known transiting super-Earth requiring a significant atmosphere to explain its observed mass and radius. Models for the structure...

Newfound Planet Orbits Backward Planets orbit stars in the same direction that the stars rotate. They all do. Except one. A newfound planet orbits the wrong way, backward compared to the rotation of its host star. Its discoverers think a near-collision may have created the retrograde orbit, as it i...

'Suicidal' Planet to be Swallowed by its Sun Astronomers have found what appears to be a gigantic suicidal planet. The odd, fiery planet is so close to its star and so large that it is triggering tremendous plasma tides on the star. Those powerful tides are in turn warping the planet's zippy less-than...

Title: HAT-P-13b,c: a transiting hot Jupiter with a massive outer companion on an eccentric orbit Authors: G. A. Bakos (1,2), A. W. Howard (3), R. W. Noyes (1), J. Hartman (1), G. Torres (1), Geza Kovacs (4), D. A. Fischer (5), D. W. Latham (1), J. A. Johnson (6), G. W. Marcy (3), D. D. Sasselov (1), R. P. S...

Lines blur between planet and full-blown star Pluto huggers and haters may hog the spotlight, but there's another debate on the bigger end of the planetary scale. Astronomers have in recent years uncovered super-massive objects that blur the boundary between planet and full-blown star. The comp...

Title: Massive Satellites of Close-In Gas Giant Exoplanets Authors: Timothy A. Cassidy, Rolando Mendez, Phil Arras, Robert E. Johnson, Michael F. Skrutskie We study the orbits, tidal heating and mass loss from satellites around close-in gas giant exoplanets. The focus is on large satellites wh...

Tiniest exoplanet found A European satellite has spied the smallest and fastest-orbiting extrasolar planet to date, bringing astronomers closer to finding a habitable planet outside our Solar System. The Convection, Rotation and Planetary Transits (CoRoT) mission, a European Space Agency s...

Title: Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission: VII. The "hot-Jupiter"-type planet CoRoT-5b Authors: H. Rauer, D. Queloz, Sz. Csizmadia, M. Deleuil, R. Alonso, S. Aigrain, J. M. Almenara, M. Auvergne, A. Baglin, P. Barge, P. Borde, F. Bouchy, H. Bruntt, J. Cabrera, L. Caro...

Title: Models of Neptune-Mass Exoplanets: Emergent Fluxes and Albedos Authors: David S. Spiegel (1), Adam Burrows (1), Laurent Ibgui (1), Ivan Hubeny (2), John A. Milsom (3) ((1) Princeton University, (2) Steward Observatory, (3) The University of Arizona) There are now many known exoplanets w...

Title: A transit timing analysis of seven RISE light curves of the exoplanet system HAT-P-3 Authors: N. P. Gibson (1), D. Pollacco (1), S. Barros (1), C. Benn (2), D. Christian (3), M. Hrudková (4), Y. C. Joshi (1), F. P. Keenan (1), E. K. Simpson (1), I. Skillen (2), I. A. Steele (5), I. Todd (1) ((1) Quee...

HARPS Discovery Press release at 13:45 CEST, 19th, October 2009.

Astronomers have discovered hundreds of Jupiter-like planets in our galaxy. However, a handful of the planets found orbiting distant stars are more Earth-sized. This gives hope to astrobiologists, who think we are more likely to find life on rocky planets with liquid water. The rocky planets fou...

Title: A Cold Neptune-Mass Planet OGLE-2007-BLG-368Lb: Cold Neptunes Are Common Authors: T. Sumi, D.P. Bennett, I.A. Bond, A. Udalski, V. Batista, M. Dominik, P. Fouqué, D. Kubas, A. Gould, B. Macintosh, K. Cook, S. Dong, L. Skuljan, A. Cassan, The MOA Collaboration: F. Abe, C.S. Botzler, A. Fuku...

Researchers are to present details of exciting new discoveries of Earth-Like Worlds - including a exoplanet, unlike any other, that is guaranteed to advance exoplanetary research. The news is embargoed until the research findings are published on the 14th December, 2009.

The star was thought to be orbited by one known extrasolar planet, designated WASP-9b. It was catalogued as part of the SuperWASP mission and discovered by the astronomical transit method.[1] On September 17, 2009 the SuperWASP teamed retracted their identification of a planetary companion to W...

Title: A transit timing analysis of nine RISE light curves of the exoplanet system TrES-3 Authors: N. P. Gibson (1), D. Pollacco (1), I. Skillen (2), E. K. Simpson (1), S. Barros (1), Y. C. Joshi (1), I. Todd (1), C. Benn (2), D. Christian (1), M. Hrudková (3), F. P. Keenan (1), I. A. Steele (4) ((1) Queen'...

Title: The 0.5 Jupiter mass transiting exoplanet WASP-13b Authors: I. Skillen, D. Pollacco, A. Collier Cameron, L. Hebb, E. Simpson, F. Bouchy, D.J. Christian, N.P. Gibson, G. Hébrard, Y.C. Joshi, B. Loeillet, B. Smalley, H.C. Stempels, R.A. Street, S. Udry, R.G. West, D.R. Anderson, S.C.C. Bar...

Title: HAT-P-12b: A Low-Density Sub-Saturn Mass Planet Transiting a Metal-Poor K Dwarf Authors: J. D. Hartman (1), G. Á. Bakos (1,2), G. Torres (1), Géza Kovács (3), R. W. Noyes (1), A. Pál (1,3,4), D. W. Latham (1), B. Sipöcz (1,4), D. A. Fischer (5), J. A. Johnson (6), G. W. Marcy (7), R. P. Butler (8),...

CoRoT-Exo-6 b a Hot-Jupiter type exoplanet with a close 8.89 day orbital period. Read more

Title: HAT-P-11b: A Super-Neptune Planet Transiting a Bright K Star in the Kepler Field Authors: G. A. Bakos (1,2), G. Torres (1), A. Pál (1,4), J. Hartman (1), Géza Kovács (3), R. W. Noyes (1), D. W. Latham (1), D. D. Sasselov (1), B. Sipocz (1,4), G. A. Esquerdo (1), D. A. Fischer (5), J. A. Johnson (6),...

Title: A cool starspot or a second transiting planet in the TrES-1 system? Authors: M. Rabus, R. Alonso, J. A. Belmonte, H. J. Deeg, R. L. Gilliland, J. M. Almenara Villa, T. M. Brown, D. Charbonneau, G. Mandushev We investigate the origin of a flux increase found during a transit of TrES-1, observed w...

Title: A Search for Exotrojans in Transiting Exoplanetary systems Authors: N. Madhusudhan, Joshua N. Winn We present a search for Trojan companions to 25 transiting exoplanets. We use the technique of Ford & Gaudi 2006, in which a difference is sought between the observed transit time and the...

Title: WASP-7: The brightest transiting-exoplanet system in the Southern hemisphere Authors: Coel Hellier, D.R. Anderson, M. Gillon, T.A. Lister, P.F.L. Maxted, D. Queloz, B. Smalley, A. Triaud, R.G. West, D.M. Wilson, K. Alsubai, S.J. Bentley, A. Collier Cameron, L. Hebb, K. Horne, J. Irwin,...

Title: The Prograde Orbit of Exoplanet TrES-2b Authors: Joshua N. Winn, John Asher Johnson, Norio Narita, Yasushi Suto, Edwin L. Turner, Debra A. Fischer, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt, Francis T. O'Donovan, B. Scott Gaudi We monitored the Doppler shift of the G0V star TrES-2 throughout a transit...

A Decade of Extrasolar Planets around Normal Stars Title: Planetary migration Authors: Philip J. Armitage, W. K. M. Rice Gravitational torques between a planet and gas in the protoplanetary disk result in orbital migration of the planet, and are likely to play an impor...

A telescope turbo-charger called the Exoplanet Tracker on the special 0.9-meter Coudé feed system within the National Science Foundation’s 2.1-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, ET has found its first planet outside the solar system. The two s...

Title: A Massive Planet to the Young Disc Star HD 81040 Authors: A. Sozzetti (1,2), S. Udry (3), S. Zucker (4), G. Torres (1), J. L. Beuzit (5), D. W. Latham (1), M. Mayor (3), T. Mazeh (4), D. Naef (6), C. Perrier (5), D. Queloz (3), J.-P. Sivan (7) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Center for A...

Young, Jupiter-Mass Objects in Ophiuchus Authors: K. N. Allers, D. T. Jaffe, N. S. van der Bliek, F. Allard, I. Baraffe It appeared in the proceedings of "The Spitzer Space Telescope: New Views of the Cosmos" (9-12 November 2004) By using 3.5 to 8 micron data from the [b...

Planet-hunters have discovered two "super-Earths" orbiting two nearby Sun-like stars. These rocky planets are larger than the Earth but much smaller than ice giants such as Uranus and Neptune. Scientists say the discoveries are a step towards finding potentially habitable planets...

Charbonneau Exoplanet Research Team to announce major discovery The Charbonneau Exoplanet Research Team will present details of exciting new discoveries of Earth-Like Worlds--including a world, unlike any other--guaranteed to advance exoplanetary research. The briefing will be embargoe...

Brown dwarf pair mystifies astronomers Two brown dwarf-sized objects orbiting a giant old star show that planets may assemble around stars more quickly and efficiently than anyone thought possible, according to an international team of astronomers. [url=http://live.psu.edu/story/43597]...

Title: Activity on the M star of QS Vir Authors: T. Ribeiro, S. Kafka, R. Baptista, C. Tappert We report analysis of VRIJH photometry, and phase-resolved optical spectroscopy of the eclipsing DA white dwarf plus dMe dwarf binary QS Vir. Modelling of the photometric data yields an inclination of i = 7...

Title: A Transiting Hot Jupiter Orbiting a Metal-Rich Star Authors: Edward W. Dunham (Lowell Observatory) William J. Borucki (NASA Ames Research Centre) David G. Koch (NASA Ames Research Centre) Natalie M. Batalha (San Jose State University) Lars A. Buchhave (Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for A...

Title: WASP-19b: the shortest period transiting exoplanet yet discovered Authors: Leslie Hebb, A.Collier-Cameron, A.H.M.J. Triaud, T.A. Lister, B. Smalley, P.F.L. Maxted, C. Hellier, D.R. Anderson, D. Pollacco, M. Gillon, D. Queloz, R.G. West, S. Bentley, B. Enoch, C.A. Haswell, K. Horne, M...

Second smallest exoplanet found to date discovered at Keck Planet hunters using Keck Observatory have detected an extrasolar planet that is only four times the mass of Earth. The planet is the second smallest exoplanet ever discovered and adds to astronomers' growing cadre of low mass planets cal...

OGLE2-TR-L9 b is a hot-Jupiter type exoplanet that's about 4.5x Jupiter size, and has a quick 2.4855-day orbital period. OGLE2-TR-L9 b was discovered in 2007. Source

Title: Second generation planets Authors: Hagai B. Perets Planets are typically thought to form in protoplanetary disks left over from protostellar disk of their newly formed host star. However, an additional planetary formation route may exist in old evolved binary systems. In such systems st...

Title: WASP-16b: A new Jupiter-like planet transiting a southern solar analogy Authors: T. A. Lister, D. R. Anderson, M. Gillon, L. Hebb, B. S. Smalley, A. H. M. J. Triaud, A. Collier Cameron, D. M. Wilson, R. G. West, S. J. Bentley, D. J. Christian, R. Enoch, C. A. Haswell, C. Hellier, K. Horne, J. Irwi...

On March 26, 1859, a French medical doctor and amateur astronomer named Lescarbault claimed to have observed a planet closer to the sun than Mercury. He called it Vulcan, after the Roman god of fire. He calculated the planet's movements and sent the information onto Urbain Le Verrier, France's most...

Title: Probing the terminator region atmosphere of the Hot-Jupiter XO-1b with transmission spectroscopy Authors: G. Tinetti, P. Deroo, M. R. Swain, C. A. Griffith, G. Vasisht, L. R. Brown, C. Burke, P. McCullough We report here the first infrared spectrum of the hot-Jupiter XO-1b. The observati...

BD+20°1790 b is an extrasolar planet, orbiting the 9th magnitude K-type star BD+20°1790, 25 parsecs from Earth. This planet is six and a half times more massive than Jupiter or about half the mass of the lowest limit being a brown dwarf. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BD%2B20%C2%B01790_b]...

Planet with 'temperate' climate found European astronomers have found a planet outside our solar system with a relatively moderate temperature, far cooler than other "exoplanets" discovered to date. The planet Corot-9b has an estimated surface temperature between 160 C and -20 C. I...

Title: WASP-26b: A 1-Jupiter-mass planet around an early-G-type star Authors: B. Smalley (Keele University), D.R. Anderson, A. Collier Cameron, M. Gillon, C. Hellier, T.A. Lister, P.F.L. Maxted, D. Queloz, A.H.M.J. Triaud, R.G. West, S.J. Bentley, B. Enoch, F. Pepe, D.L. Pollacco, D. Segrans...

Title: HAT-P-14b: A 2.2 Jupiter-mass exoplanet transiting a bright F star Authors: G. Torres (1), G. A. Bakos (1 and 2), J. Hartman (1), Geza Kovacs (3), R. W. Noyes (1), D. W. Latham (1), D. A. Fischer (4), J. A. Johnson (5), G. W. Marcy (6), A. W. Howard (6), D. D. Sasselov (1), D. Kipping (1 and 7), B. Sipo...

Kepler-4b is one of the first 5 exoplanets discovered by the Kepler Mission and at 3.87 earth radii, is the smallest discovered by Kepler thus far. Read more

Title: HAT-P-16b: A 4 Mj Planet Transiting A Bright Star On An Eccentric Orbit Authors: L. A. Buchhave, G. A. Bakos, J. D. Hartman, G. Torres, G. Kovacs, D. W. Latham, R. W. Noyes, G. A. Esquerdo, M. Everett, A. W. Howard, G. W. Marcy, D. A. Fischer, J. A. Johnson, J. Andersen, G. Furesz, G. Perumpilly, D....

Title: HAT-P-15b: A 10.9-day Extrasolar Planet Transiting a Solar-type Star Authors: G. Kovács (1), G. Á.Bakos (2,3), J. D. Hartman (2), G. Torres (2), R. W. Noyes (2), D. W. Latham (2), A. W. Howard (4), D. A. Fischer (5), J. A. Johnson (6), G. W. Marcy (4), H. Isaacson (4), D. D. Sasselov (2), R. P. Stef...

Title: Evidence of Possible Spin-Orbit Misalignment Along the Line of Sight in Transiting Exoplanet Systems Authors: Kevin C. Schlaufman Of the 26 transiting exoplanet systems with measurements of the Rossiter-McLaughlin (RM) effect, eight have now been found to be significantly spin-orbit...

Title: CoRoT-10b: a giant planet in a 13.24 day eccentric orbit Authors: A. S. Bonomo, A. Santerne, R. Alonso, J.-C. Gazzano, M. Havel, S. Aigrain, M. Auvergne, A. Baglin, M. Barbieri, P. Barge, W. Benz, P. Bordé, F. Bouchy, H. Bruntt, J. Cabrera, A. C. Cameron, L. Carone, S. Carpano, Sz. Csizmadia, M...

Title: Rotation periods of exoplanet host stars Authors: Elaine Simpson (1,2,3), Sallie Baliunas (1), Greg Henry (4), Chris Watson (3) ((1) Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, (2) University of Southampton, (3) Queen's University Belfast, (4) Tennessee State University) The stel...

Title: Methane in the atmosphere of the transiting hot Neptune GJ436b? Authors: J.-P. Beaulieu, G. Tinetti, D. M. Kipping, I. Ribas, R. J. Barber, J. Y-K. Cho, I. Polichtchouk, J. Tennyson, S. N. Yurchenko, C. A. Griffith, V. Batista, I. Waldmann, S. Miller, S. Carey, O. Mousis, S. J. Fossey, A. Aylw...

Title: Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission. XII. CoRoT-12b: a short-period low-density planet transiting a solar analog star Authors: M. Gillon, A. Hatzes, Sz. Csizmadia, M. Fridlund, M. Deleuil, S. Aigrain, R. Alonso, M. Auvergne, A. Baglin, P. Barge, S. I. Barnes, A. S. Bonomo,...

Title: Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission. XIII. CoRoT-13b: a dense hot Jupiter in transit around a star with solar metallicity and super-solar lithium content Authors: J. Cabrera, H. Bruntt, M. Ollivier, R. F. Diaz, Sz. Csizmadia, S. Aigrain, R. Alonso, J.-M. Almenara, M. Auver...

Discovery of a new planetary system similar to the Solar System A group of European astronomers has discovered a planetary system with at least five planets, but it could have two more, around a sun-like star, HD 10180. The number of planets and their distances from the star makes this system resemb...

Huddled over a computer in his bedroom, Kevin Apps could barely believe what he had found. From his modest bungalow near Gatwick Airport, he had spent days poring over observations sent back to Earth by a telescope orbiting our planet. While Nasa had a team of more than 30 full-time scientists analys...

'Alien' planet detected circling dying star Astronomers claim to have discovered the first planet originating from outside our galaxy. The Jupiter-like planet, they say, is part of a solar system which once belonged to a dwarf galaxy. This dwarf galaxy was in turn devoured by our own galaxy, the Mi...

Title: WASP-31b: a low-density planet transiting a late-F-type star Authors: D. R. Anderson, A. Collier Cameron, C. Hellier, M. Lendl, T. A. Lister, P. F. L. Maxted, D. Queloz, B. Smalley, A. M. S. Smith, A. H. M. J. Triaud, R. G. West, D. J. A. Brown, M. Gillon, F. Pepe, D. Pollacco, D. Segransan, R. A. S...

Title: WASP-30b: a 61 Mjup brown dwarf transiting a V=12, F8 star Authors: D. R. Anderson, A. Collier Cameron, C. Hellier, M. Lendl, P. F. L. Maxted, D. Pollacco, D. Queloz, B. Smalley, A. M. S. Smith, I. Todd, A. H. M. J. Triaud, R. G. West, S. C. C. Barros, B. Enoch, M. Gillon, T. A. Lister, F. Pepe, D. Ségr...

Title: WASP-34b: a near-grazing transiting sub-Jupiter-mass exoplanet in a hierarchical triple system Authors: B. Smalley (Keele University), D.R. Anderson, A. Collier Cameron, C. Hellier, M. Lendl, P.F.L. Maxted, D. Queloz, A.H.M.J. Triaud, R.G. West, S.J. Bentley, B. Enoch, M. Gillon, T....

Title: WASP-41b: A transiting hot Jupiter planet orbiting a magnetically-active G8V star Authors: P. F. L. Maxted (1), D. R. Anderson (1), A. Collier Cameron (2), C. Hellier (1), D. Queloz (3), B. Smalley (1), R. A. Street (4), A. H. M. J. Triaud (3), R. G. West (5), M. Gillon (6), T. A. Lister (4), F. Pep...

Title: Transit Timing Variation Analysis of OGLE-TR-132b with Seven New Transits Authors: Elisabeth R. Adams, Mercedes Lopez-Morales, James L. Elliot, Sara Seager, David J. Osip We report the results of the first transit timing variation (TTV) analysis of the very hot Jupiter OGLE-TR-132b, us...

Name KOI-428 bDiscovered in2010 M.sin i2.2 (± 0.4) MJSemi major axis0.08 (± 0.003) AUOrbital period6.87349 (± 0.00064) daysEccentricity0 Radius1.17 (± 0.04) RJTtransit2455005.5198 (± 0.0024)Inclination89.7 (-0.1+0.3) deg.Update31/12/10 Source KOI=Keple...

Title: The California Planet Survey III. A Possible 2:1 Resonance in the Exoplanetary Triple System HD 37124 Authors: J. T. Wright, Dimitri Veras, Eric B. Ford, John Asher Johnson, G. W. Marcy, A. W. Howard, H. Isaacson, D. A. Fischer, J. Spronk, J. Anderson, J. Valenti We present new radial velocit...

Title: Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission: XIII. CoRoT-14b: an unusually dense very hot Jupiter Authors: B. Tingley, M. Endl, J.-C. Gazzano, R. Alonso, T. Mazeh, L. Jorda, S. Aigrain, J.-M. Almenara, M. Auvergne, A. Baglin, P. Barge, A. S. Bonomo, P. Bordé, F. Bouchy, H. Bruntt, J....

Title: WASP-40b: independent discovery of the 0.6-Mjup transiting exoplanet HAT-P-27b Authors: D.R. Anderson, S.C.C. Barros, I. Boisse, F. Bouchy, A. Collier-Cameron, F. Faedi, G. Hebrard, C. Hellier, M. Lendl, C. Moutou, D. Pollacco, A. Santerne, B. Smalley, A.M.S. Smith, I. Todd, A.H.M.J....

NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Discovers Extraordinary New Planetary System Scientists using NASA's Kepler, a space telescope, recently discovered six planets made of a mix of rock and gases orbiting a single sun-like star, known as Kepler-11, which is located approximately 2,000 light years from E...

Title: WASP-39b: a highly inflated Saturn-mass planet orbiting a late G-type star Authors: Faedi, F.; Barros, S. C. C.; Anderson, D. R.; Brown, D. J. A.; Collier Cameron, A.; Pollacco, D.; Boisse, I.; Hebrard, G.; Lendl, M.; Lister, T. A.; Smalley, B.; Street, R. A.; Triaud, A. H. M. J.; Bento, J.; Bu...

Two planets found sharing one orbit Buried in the flood of data from the Kepler telescope is a planetary system unlike any seen before. Two of its apparent planets share the same orbit around their star. If the discovery is confirmed, it would bolster a theory that Earth once shared its orbit with a Mar...

Title: HAT-P-30b: A transiting hot Jupiter on a highly oblique orbit Authors: John Asher Johnson, J. N. Winn, J. D. Hartman, G. A. Bakos, T. D. Morton, G. Torres, Géza Kovács, D. W. Latham, R. W. Noyes, B. Sato, G. A. Esquerdo, D. A. Fischer, G. W. Marcy, A. W. Howard, S. N. Quinn, B. Beky, D. D. Sasselov, R...

Title: Hot Jupiters from Secular Planet--Planet Interactions Authors: Smadar Naoz, Will M. Farr, Yoram Lithwick, Frederic A. Rasio, Jean Teyssandier (Version v2) About 25 % of "hot Jupiters" are actually orbiting counter to the spin axis of the star. Perturbations from a binary star...

Title: The Role of Drag in the Energetics of Strongly Forced Exoplanet Atmospheres Authors: Emily Rauscher (1), Kristen Menou (2) ((1) University of Arizona, (2) Columbia University) In contrast to the Earth, where frictional heating is typically neglected in atmospheric modelling, we show th...

Starless planets may be habitable after all Liquid water may survive on free-floating planets that have no star to warm them. If they also support life, they could act as stepping stones to spread life around the galaxy. Gravitational tussles with other planets or passing stars can eject planets fr...

The Habitable Exoplanets Catalogue (HEC) is an online database for scientists, educators, and the general public focused on habitable exoplanets discoveries. The catalogue uses various habitability indices and classifications to identify, rank, and compare exoplanets, including their po...

Title: Seven transiting hot-Jupiters from WASP-South, Euler and TRAPPIST: WASP-47b, WASP-55b, WASP-61b, WASP-62b, WASP-63b, WASP-66b & WASP-67b Authors: Coel Hellier, D. R. Anderson, A. Collier Cameron, A. P. Doyle, M. Gillon, E. Jehin, M. Lendl, P. F. L. Maxted, F. Pepe, D. Pollacco, D. Q...

Oldest known planets in Universe found Astronomers have discovered the oldest known planets from the early days of the Universe, orbiting a star that is almost on our cosmic doorstep. The ancient solar system is thought to have formed around 12.8 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years...

Title: Starspots and spin-orbit alignment for Kepler cool host stars Authors: Roberto Sanchis-Ojeda, Josh N. Winn, Daniel C. Fabrycky The angle between the spin axis of the host star and the orbit of its planets (i.e., the stellar obliquity) is precious information about the formation and evolut...

Title: Planetary companions orbiting M giants HD 208527 and HD 220074 Authors: B.-C. Lee, I. Han, M.-G. Park Aims. The purpose of the present study is to research the origin of planetary companions by using a precise radial velocity (RV) survey. Methods. The high-resolution spectroscopy of the fi...

Title: Relative photometry of HAT-P-1b occultations Authors: Bence Béky, Matthew J. Holman, Ronald L. Gilliland, Gáspár Á. Bakos, Joshua N. Winn, Robert W. Noyes, Dimitar D. Sasselov We present HST STIS observations of two occultations of the transiting exoplanet HAT-P-1b. By measuring the pl...