SPECULOOS: a network of robotic telescopes to hunt for terrestrial planets around the nearest ultracool dwarfs

Laetitia Delrez; Michaël Gillon; Emmanuël Jehin; Didier Queloz; Yaseen Almleaky; Artem Burdanov; Elsa Ducrot; Sandrine Sohy; Sam Thompson; Julien De Wit; Brice-olivier Demory; Valérie Van Grootel; Catarina Silva Fernandes; Catriona Murray; Adam Burgasser; Amaury Triaud; Khalid Barkaoui; Zouhair Benkhaldoun; James Mccormac; Roi Alonso; Rafael Rebolo; Roberto Gilmozzi; Heather K. Marshall; Jason Spyromilio

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SPECULOOS: a network of robotic telescopes to hunt for terrestrial planets around the nearest ultracool dwarfs

Laetitia Delrez, Michaël Gillon, Emmanuël Jehin, Didier Queloz, Yaseen Almleaky, Artem Burdanov, Elsa Ducrot, Sandrine Sohy, Sam Thompson, Julien De Wit, Brice-olivier Demory, Valérie Van Grootel, Catarina Silva Fernandes, Catriona Murray, Adam Burgasser, Amaury Triaud, Khalid Barkaoui, Zouhair Benkhaldoun, James Mccormac, Roi AlonsoRafael Rebolo, Roberto Gilmozzi (Editor), Heather K. Marshall (Editor), Jason Spyromilio

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We present here SPECULOOS, a new exoplanet transit search based on a network of 1m-class robotic telescopes targeting the ∼1200 ultracool (spectral type M7 and later) dwarfs bright enough in the infrared (K-mag ≤ 12.5) to possibly enable the atmospheric characterization of temperate terrestrial planets with next-generation facilities like the James Webb Space Telescope. The ultimate goals of the project are to reveal the frequency of temperate terrestrial planets around the lowest-mass stars and brown dwarfs, to probe the diversity of their bulk compositions, atmospheres and surface conditions, and to assess their potential habitability.

Original language	English
Article number	107001I
Journal	Proceedings of SPIE
Volume	10700
Number of pages	22
ISSN	0277-786X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312475
Publication status	Published - 6 Jul 2018
Event	Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VII - Austin, United States Duration: 10 Jun 2018 → 15 Jun 2018

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Conference	Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VII
Location	Austin, United States
Period	10/06/2018 → 15/06/2018

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Delrez, L., Gillon, M., Jehin, E., Queloz, D., Almleaky, Y., Burdanov, A., Ducrot, E., Sohy, S., Thompson, S., De Wit, J., Demory, B., Van Grootel, V., Silva Fernandes, C., Murray, C., Burgasser, A., Triaud, A., Barkaoui, K., Benkhaldoun, Z., Mccormac, J., ... Spyromilio, J. (2018). SPECULOOS: a network of robotic telescopes to hunt for terrestrial planets around the nearest ultracool dwarfs. Proceedings of SPIE, 10700, [107001I]. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312475

Delrez, L, Gillon, M, Jehin, E, Queloz, D, Almleaky, Y, Burdanov, A, Ducrot, E, Sohy, S, Thompson, S, De Wit, J, Demory, B, Van Grootel, V, Silva Fernandes, C, Murray, C, Burgasser, A, Triaud, A, Barkaoui, K, Benkhaldoun, Z, Mccormac, J, Alonso, R, Rebolo, R, Gilmozzi, R (ed.), Marshall, HK (ed.) & Spyromilio, J 2018, 'SPECULOOS: a network of robotic telescopes to hunt for terrestrial planets around the nearest ultracool dwarfs', Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 10700, 107001I. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312475

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