To new worlds with quantitative spectroscopy

Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Mar 01, 2023

Astronomers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the Vatican Observatory (VO) teamed up to spectroscopically survey more than 1000 bright stars that potentially host exoplanets. The team presents precise values of 54 spectroscopic parameters per star in the first of a series of papers in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics and releases all its data to the scientific c