Periodic Reporting for period 3 - FOUR ACES (Future of upper atmospheric characterisation of exoplanets with spectroscopy)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2020-06-01 do 2021-11-30
As of the end of Period 3, the team has published 123 articles in international refereed journals, receiving a total of 3156 citations (source: NASA ADS). Among these 123 articles, 7 were published in high-impact interdisciplinary journals (6 in Nature and 1 in Science). FOUR ACES team members are lead authors of 26 of articles out of these 121 (10 are led by the project PhD students), including 3 articles in Nature. Green open access has been enforced for all publications through the arXiv server.
Milestone results are
- The theoretical discovery that oceans of water could never condensed at the surface of Venus (Turbet et al. 2021, Nature 598, 276; PR: https://www.unige.ch/communication/communiques/en/2021/y-a-t-il-eu-des-oceans-sur-venus/)
- The detection of transits from a lukewarm, volatile-rich super-earths around a naked eye star (Delrez et al. 2021, Nature Astronomy 5, 775; PR: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cheops/Unique_exoplanet_photobombs_Cheops_study_of_nearby_star_system)
- The measurement of the hot temperature of an ultra hot gas giant with the CHEOPS space telescope - the first scientific result of the mission (Lendl et al. 2020, A&A 643, L94; PR: https://sci.esa.int/web/cheops/-/first-results-from-cheops-esa-s-exoplanet-observer-reveals-extreme-alien-world)
- The detection of iron condensation across the nightside of an ultra hot gas giant exoplanet (Ehrenreich et al. 2020, Nature 580, 597; PR: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2005/)
- The discovery of a misaligned planetary system, where the planet is evaporating (Bourrier et al. 2018a, Nature 553, 477; PR: https://www.unige.ch/communication/communiques/en/2017/cdp181217/)
- The detection of metallic vapour in a giant exoplanet hotter than a star (Hoeijmakers et al. 2018, Nature 560, 453; PR: https://www.unige.ch/communication/communiques/en/2018/iron-and-titanium-in-the-atmosphere-of-an-exoplanet/).
- The first detection of helium escaping from a bloated exoplanet (Spake et al. 2018, Nature 557, 68) and the first detailed measurement of the shape and dynamics of an escaping cloud of helium around an exoplanet (Allart et al. 2018, Science 362, 1384; PR: https://www.unige.ch/communication/communiques/en/2018/une-planete-gonflee-comme-un-ballon/).
- The detection of a second case of evaporating Neptune-mass exoplanet (Bourrier et al. 2018b, A&A 620, A147; PR: http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2018-52).