Prehistory of transit searches

D Briot, J Schneider - arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.06896, 2018 - arxiv.org
Nowadays the more powerful method to detect extrasolar planets is the transit method. We
review the planet transits which were anticipated, searched, and the first ones which were …

PicSat: a Cubesat mission for exoplanetary transit detection in 2017

V Lapeyrere, S Lacour, L David, M Nowak, A Crouzier… - 2017 - digitalcommons.usu.edu
The PicSat mission is based on a 3U Cubesat architecture, with a payload specifically
designed for high precision stellar photometry. The satellite is planned to be launched in …

Conception and Design of New Space Instrumentation for the Study of Massive Stars in the UV

R Desselle - 2018 - orbi.uliege.be
In astrophysics, the UV domain is rich in important information that can be exploited by a
multitude of groups of scientists, working on a variety of subjects. Because of the Earth …