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Detection of an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting the nearby ultracool dwarf star SPECULOOS-3
Gillon, Michaël; Pedersen, Peter P.; Rackham, Benjamin V. et al.
2024In Nature Astronomy
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Abstract :
[en] Located at the bottom of the main sequence, ultracool dwarf stars are widespread in the solar neighbourhood. Nevertheless, their extremely low luminosity has left their planetary population largely unexplored, and only one of them, TRAPPIST-1, has so far been found to host a transiting planetary system. In this context, we present the SPECULOOS project’s detection of an Earth-sized planet in a 17 h orbit around an ultracool dwarf of M6.5 spectral type located 16.8 pc away. The planet’s high irradiation (16 times that of Earth) combined with the infrared luminosity and Jupiter-like size of its host star make it one of the most promising rocky exoplanet targets for detailed emission spectroscopy characterization with JWST. Indeed, our sensitivity study shows that just ten secondary eclipse observations with the Mid-InfraRed Instrument/Low-Resolution Spectrometer on board JWST should provide strong constraints on its atmospheric composition and/or surface mineralogy.
Disciplines :
Space science, astronomy & astrophysics
Author, co-author :
Gillon, Michaël  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophysique, géophysique et océanographie (AGO)
Pedersen, Peter P.
Rackham, Benjamin V.
Dransfield, Georgina
Ducrot, Elsa
Barkaoui, Khalid  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophysique, géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Exoplanets in Transit: Identification and Characterization
Burdanov, Artem Y.
Schroffenegger, Urs
Gómez Maqueo Chew, Yilen
Lederer, Susan M.
Alonso, Roi
Burgasser, Adam J.
Howell, Steve B.
Narita, Norio
de Wit, Julien
Demory, Brice-Olivier
Queloz, Didier
Triaud, Amaury H. M. J.
Delrez, Laetitia ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophysique, géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Exoplanets in Transit: Identification and Characterization
Jehin, Emmanuel  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Unités de recherche interfacultaires > Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR)
Hooton, Matthew J.
Garcia, Lionel J.
Jano Muñoz, Clàudia
Murray, Catriona A.
Pozuelos, Francisco J.
Sebastian, Daniel
Timmermans, Mathilde  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Astrobiology
Thompson, Samantha J.
Zúñiga Fernández, Sebastián Gaspar  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Astrobiology
Aceituno, Jesús
Aganze, Christian
Amado, Pedro J.
Baycroft, Thomas
Benkhaldoun, Zouhair
Berardo, David
Bolmont, Emeline
Clark, Catherine A.
Davis, Yasmin T.
Davoudi, Fatemeh ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Astrobiology
de Beurs, Zoë L.
de Leon, Jerome P.
Ikoma, Masahiro
Ikuta, Kai
Isogai, Keisuke
Fukuda, Izuru
Fukui, Akihiko
Gerasimov, Roman
Ghachoui, Mourad  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Astrobiology
Günther, Maximilian N.
Hasler, Samantha
Hayashi, Yuya
Heng, Kevin
Hu, Renyu
Kagetani, Taiki
Kawai, Yugo
Kawauchi, Kiyoe
Kitzmann, Daniel
Koll, Daniel D. B.
Lendl, Monika
Livingston, John H.
Lyu, Xintong
Meier Valdés, Erik A.
Mori, Mayuko
McCormac, James J.
Murgas, Felipe
Niraula, Prajwal
Pallé, Enric
Plauchu-Frayn, Ilse
Rebolo, Rafael
Sabin, Laurence
Schackey, Yannick
Schanche, Nicole
Selsis, Franck
Sota, Alfredo
Stalport, Manu ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Unités de recherche interfacultaires > Space sciences, Technologies and Astrophysics Research (STAR)
Standing, Matthew R.
Stassun, Keivan G.
Tamura, Motohide
Terada, Yuka
Theissen, Christopher A.
Turbet, Martin
Van Grootel, Valérie  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophysique, géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Astrophysique stellaire théorique et astérosismologie
Varas, Roberto
Watanabe, Noriharu
Zong Lang, Francis
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Language :
English
Title :
Detection of an Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting the nearby ultracool dwarf star SPECULOOS-3
Publication date :
2024
Journal title :
Nature Astronomy
eISSN :
2397-3366
Publisher :
Springer Nature, London, Gb
Peer reviewed :
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