How to Find Exoplanet Oceans
Finding an exoplanet ocean may seem like science fiction, but it’s more plausible than you might think!
Finding an exoplanet ocean may seem like science fiction, but it’s more plausible than you might think!
How, and when does the wavelength dependence of photospheric radius of an eclipsing exoplanet become too important to neglect?
Mapping the atmospheres and surfaces of exoplanets is ailed by degeneracies due to the choice of map structure and orbital parameter uncertainties. Today’s paper attempts to solve this by using a principal component analysis approach.
Scrutinizing a popular method of characterizing exoplanet atmospheres reveals an inherent degeneracy that may only be overcome in special cases.
With the launch of TESS, we will soon have many more exoplanet candidates. But how do we determine which are the most valuable for follow-up observations?
The Sun’s closest neighbor star Proxima Centauri—normally invisible to the naked eye—may have briefly become visible by increasing in brightness over 100 times for a few minutes back in 2016 in the largest flare ever seen from it.