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Pedro Figueira
Researcher at European Southern Observatory
Publications - 265
Citations - 10693
Pedro Figueira is an academic researcher from European Southern Observatory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Planet & Exoplanet. The author has an hindex of 51, co-authored 237 publications receiving 9093 citations. Previous affiliations of Pedro Figueira include University of Porto & University of Geneva.
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The PLATO 2.0 mission
Heike Rauer,Heike Rauer,C. Catala,Conny Aerts,Thierry Appourchaux,Willy Benz,Alexis Brandeker,Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard,Magali Deleuil,Laurent Gizon,Laurent Gizon,M. J. Goupil,Manuel Güdel,Eduardo Janot-Pacheco,M. Mas-Hesse,Isabella Pagano,Giampaolo Piotto,Don Pollacco,Ċ. Santos,Andrew Smith,Juan Carlos Suárez,Róbert Szabó,Stéphane Udry,V. Adibekyan,Yann Alibert,J. M. Almenara,Pau Amaro-Seoane,M. Ammler-von Eiff,Martin Asplund,E. Antonello,Sydney A. Barnes,Frédéric Baudin,K. Belkacem,Maria Bergemann,G. Bihain,Aaron C. Birch,Xavier Bonfils,Isabelle Boisse,Aldo S. Bonomo,Francesco Borsa,I. M. Brandão,Enzo Brocato,S. Brun,Matthew R. Burleigh,R. Burston,Juan Cabrera,Santi Cassisi,William J. Chaplin,Stéphane Charpinet,Cristina Chiappini,Ross P. Church,Sz. Csizmadia,Margarida S. Cunha,Mario Damasso,Mario Damasso,Melvyn B. Davies,Hans J. Deeg,Rodrigo F. Díaz,Stefan Dreizler,C. Dreyer,C. Dreyer,P. Eggenberger,David Ehrenreich,Philipp Eigmüller,Anders Erikson,Robert Farmer,Sofia Feltzing,F. De Oliveira Fialho,Pedro Figueira,T. Forveille,Malcolm Fridlund,Rafael A. García,Paolo Giommi,G. Giuffrida,G. Giuffrida,M. Godolt,J. Gomes da Silva,T. Granzer,John Lee Grenfell,A. Grotsch-Noels,E. Günther,Carole A. Haswell,A. P. Hatzes,Guillaume Hébrard,Saskia Hekker,Saskia Hekker,Ravit Helled,Kevin Heng,Jon M. Jenkins,Anders Johansen,Maxim L. Khodachenko,Kristina G. Kislyakova,Wilhelm Kley,Ulrich Kolb,Natalie A. Krivova,Friedrich Kupka,Helmut Lammer,Antonino F. Lanza,Yveline Lebreton,Demetrio Magrin,P. Marcos-Arenal,P. M. Marrese,P. M. Marrese,J. P. Marques,J. H. C. Martins,S. Mathis,Savita Mathur,S. Messina,Andrea Miglio,Josefina Montalbán,M. Montalto,Mário J. P. F. G. Monteiro,Hamed Moradi,Ehsan Moravveji,Christoph Mordasini,Thierry Morel,Annelies Mortier,Valerio Nascimbeni,Richard P. Nelson,Martin Bo Nielsen,Lena Noack,Andrew Norton,Aviv Ofir,Mahmoudreza Oshagh,R.-M. Ouazzani,Péter Pápics,V. C. Parro,Pascal Petit,Bertrand Plez,Ennio Poretti,Andreas Quirrenbach,Roberto Ragazzoni,Giuliano Raimondo,Monica Rainer,Daniel R. Reese,Ronald Redmer,Sabine Reffert,Bárbara Rojas-Ayala,Ian W. Roxburgh,Stéphanie Salmon,Alexandre Santerne,Jean Schneider,Jesper Schou,Sonja Schuh,Hannah Schunker,A. Silva-Valio,Roberto Silvotti,I. Skillen,Ignas Snellen,Frank Sohl,S. G. Sousa,Alessandro Sozzetti,Dennis Stello,Klaus G. Strassmeier,Michal Švanda,Gy. M. Szabó,Gy. M. Szabó,Andrew Tkachenko,Diana Valencia,Valérie Van Grootel,Sylvie Vauclair,Paolo Ventura,F. W. Wagner,N. A. Walton,Joerg Weingrill,Stephanie C. Werner,Peter J. Wheatley,Konstanze Zwintz +167 more
TL;DR: The PLATO 2.0 mission as discussed by the authors has been selected for ESA's M3 launch opportunity (2022/24) to provide accurate key planet parameters (radius, mass, density and age) in statistical numbers.
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State of the Field: Extreme Precision Radial Velocities
Debra A. Fischer,Guillem Anglada-Escudé,Pamela Arriagada,Roman V. Baluev,Jacob L. Bean,François Bouchy,Lars A. Buchhave,T. A. Carroll,Abhijit Chakraborty,Justin R. Crepp,Rebekah I. Dawson,Scott A. Diddams,Xavier Dumusque,Jason D. Eastman,Michael Endl,Pedro Figueira,Eric B. Ford,Daniel Foreman-Mackey,Paul Fournier,Gabor Furesz,B. Scott Gaudi,P. C. Gregory,Frank Grundahl,Artie P. Hatzes,Guillaume Hébrard,Enrique Herrero,David W. Hogg,Andrew W. Howard,John Asher Johnson,Paul Jorden,C. Jurgenson,David W. Latham,Greg Laughlin,Thomas J. Loredo,Christophe Lovis,Suvrath Mahadevan,T. M. McCracken,Francesco Pepe,Mario R. Perez,David F. Phillips,Peter Plavchan,Lisa Prato,Andreas Quirrenbach,Ansgar Reiners,Paul Robertson,Nuno C. Santos,David Sawyer,Damien Ségransan,Alessandro Sozzetti,Tilo Steinmetz,Andrew Szentgyorgyi,Stéphane Udry,Jeff A. Valenti,Sharon X. Wang,Robert A. Wittenmyer,Jason T. Wright +55 more
TL;DR: The Second Workshop on Extreme Precision Radial Velocities defined circa 2015 the state of the art Doppler precision and identified the critical path challenges for reaching 10 cm/s measurement precision as discussed by the authors.
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Harps-N: the new planet hunter at TNG
Rosario Cosentino,Christophe Lovis,Francesco Pepe,Andrew Collier Cameron,David W. Latham,Emilio Molinari,Stéphane Udry,Naidu Bezawada,Martin Black,Andy Born,N. Buchschacher,D. Charbonneau,Pedro Figueira,M. Fleury,A. Galli,Angus Gallie,Xiaofeng Gao,Adriano Ghedina,Carlos Gonzalez,Manuel Gonzalez,José Guerra,David Henry,Keith Horne,I. Hughes,Dennis Kelly,Marcello Lodi,David Lunney,Charles Maire,Michel Mayor,Giuseppina Micela,Mark Ordway,John A. Peacock,David F. Phillips,Giampaolo Piotto,Don Pollacco,Didier Queloz,Ken Rice,C. Riverol,L. Riverol,Jose San Juan,Dimitar Sasselov,Damien Ségransan,Alessandro Sozzetti,Danuta Sosnowska,Brian Stobie,Andrew Szentgyorgyi,Andy Vick,L. Weber +47 more
TL;DR: The visible spectrograph HARPS-N as discussed by the authors was used at the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo (TNG) to perform radial velocity measurements of extrasolar planetary systems.
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State of the Field: Extreme Precision Radial Velocities*
Debra A. Fischer,Guillem Anglada-Escudé,Guillem Anglada-Escudé,Pamela Arriagada,Roman V. Baluev,Jacob L. Bean,François Bouchy,Lars A. Buchhave,T. A. Carroll,Abhijit Chakraborty,Justin R. Crepp,Rebekah I. Dawson,Scott A. Diddams,Scott A. Diddams,Xavier Dumusque,Jason D. Eastman,Michael Endl,Pedro Figueira,Eric B. Ford,Daniel Foreman-Mackey,Daniel Foreman-Mackey,Paul Fournier,Gábor Fűrész,B. Scott Gaudi,P. C. Gregory,Frank Grundahl,Artie P. Hatzes,Guillaume Hébrard,Guillaume Hébrard,Enrique Herrero,David W. Hogg,Andrew W. Howard,John Asher Johnson,Paul Jorden,C. Jurgenson,David W. Latham,Greg Laughlin,Thomas J. Loredo,Christophe Lovis,Suvrath Mahadevan,T. M. McCracken,Francesco Pepe,Mario R. Perez,David F. Phillips,Peter Plavchan,Lisa Prato,Andreas Quirrenbach,Ansgar Reiners,Paul Robertson,Nuno C. Santos,David Sawyer,Damien Ségransan,Alessandro Sozzetti,Tilo Steinmetz,Andrew Szentgyorgyi,Stéphane Udry,Jeff A. Valenti,Sharon X. Wang,Robert A. Wittenmyer,Robert A. Wittenmyer,Jason T. Wright +60 more
TL;DR: The Second Workshop on Extreme Precision Radial Velocities defined circa 2015 the state of the art Doppler precision and identified the critical path challenges for reaching 10 cm s−1 measurement precision as mentioned in this paper.
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The Mass of Kepler-93b and The Composition of Terrestrial Planets
Courtney D. Dressing,David Charbonneau,Xavier Dumusque,Sara Gettel,Francesco Pepe,Andrew Collier Cameron,David W. Latham,Emilio Molinari,Stéphane Udry,L. Affer,Aldo S. Bonomo,Lars A. Buchhave,Lars A. Buchhave,Rosario Cosentino,Pedro Figueira,Aldo F. M. Fiorenzano,Avet Harutyunyan,Raphaëlle D. Haywood,John Asher Johnson,Mercedes Lopez-Morales,Christophe Lovis,Luca Malavolta,Luca Malavolta,Michel Mayor,Giuseppina Micela,Fatemeh Motalebi,Valerio Nascimbeni,David F. Phillips,Giampaolo Piotto,Giampaolo Piotto,Don Pollacco,Didier Queloz,Ken Rice,Dimitar Sasselov,Damien Ségransan,Alessandro Sozzetti,Andrew Szentgyorgyi,Christopher A. Watson +37 more
TL;DR: In this article, the mass of Kepler-93b was estimated based on 86 radial velocity observations obtained with the HARPS-N spectrograph on the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo and 32 archival Keck/HIRES observations.