Exoplanets can be detected with various observational techniques. Among them, radial
velocity (RV) has the key advantages of revealing the architecture of planetary systems and …

In no other field of astrophysics has the impact of new instrumentation been as substantial
as in the domain of exoplanets. Before 1995 our knowledge of exoplanets was mainly based …

M dwarf stars, which have masses less than 60 per cent that of the Sun, make up 75 per cent
of the population of the stars in the Galaxy. The atmospheres of orbiting Earth-sized planets …

To date, the radial velocity (RV) method has been one of the most productive techniques for
detecting and confirming extrasolar planetary candidates. Unfortunately, stellar activity can …

Context. Searching for planets around stars with different masses helps us to assess the
outcome of planetary formation for different initial conditions. The low-mass M dwarfs are …

Since the discovery of the transiting super-Earth CoRoT-7b, several investigations have
yielded different results for the number and masses of planets present in the system, mainly …

I calculate the physical properties of 32 transiting extrasolar planet and brown-dwarf systems
from existing photometric observations and measured spectroscopic parameters. The …

Exoplanets down to the size of Earth have been found, but not in the habitable zone—that is,
at a distance from the parent star at which water, if present, would be liquid. There are …

Context. Planet formation is sensitive to the conditions in protoplanetary disks, for which
scaling laws as a function of stellar mass are known. Aims. We aim to test whether the …

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) …