Astrobiology is the science that seeks to understand the story of life in our universe.
Astrobiology includes investigation of the conditions that are necessary for life to emerge …

Thousands of exoplanets have now been discovered with a huge range of masses, sizes
and orbits: from rocky Earth-like planets to large gas giants grazing the surface of their host …

Stars and planets both form by accreting material from a surrounding disk. Because they
grow from the same material, theory predicts that there should be a relationship between …

We present an improved estimate of the occurrence rate of small planets orbiting small stars
by searching the full four-year Kepler data set for transiting planets using our own planet …

The Kepler mission, combined with ground-based radial velocity (RV) follow-up and
dynamical analyses of transit timing variations, has revolutionized the observational …

The masses and radii of exoplanets are fundamental quantities needed for their
characterisation. Studying the different populations of exoplanets is important for …

ABSTRACT The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a NASA-sponsored
Explorer mission that will perform a wide-field survey for planets that transit bright host stars …

Several small dense exoplanets are now known, inviting comparisons to Earth and Venus.
Such comparisons require translating their masses and sizes to composition models of …

Transiting planet surveys like Kepler have provided a wealth of information on the
distribution of planetary radii, particularly for the new populations of super-Earth-and sub …

ABSTRACT This paper presents SOAP 2.0, a new version of the Spot Oscillation And Planet
(SOAP) code that estimates in a simple way the photometric and radial velocity (RV) …