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color:#000000\">&nbsp;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/carmenes.caha.es\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>CARMENES<\/u><\/a><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> project has just pub<\/span><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:#000000\">lished data from about<\/span><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> 20,000 observations taken between 2016 and 2020 for a sample of 362 nearby cool stars. The project, financed by Spanish and German funds, uses an instrument at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/carmenes.caha.es\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>Calar Alto Observatory<\/u><\/a><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> (Spain) with the purpose of <\/span><strong>finding Earth-like exoplanets (rocky and temperate), with the possibility of harbouring water on their surface<\/strong><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> if they are located in the so-called &quot;habitable zone&quot; of their star. Notable among the multitude of released data measurements are those that have led to the <\/span><strong>discovery of 59 exoplanets, a dozen of which are potentially habitable<\/strong><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\">. The study has been published today in the journal Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\">CARMENES is the name of the scientific project, but also of the instrument used to make the observations and of the consortium that designed and built it. More than 200 scientists and engineers from <\/span><strong>11 Spanish and German institutions<\/strong><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> are involved in the project, in which researchers from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieec.cat\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia<\/u><\/a><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> <\/span><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:#222222\">(IEEC &mdash; Institut d&rsquo;Estudis Espacials de Catalunya)<\/span><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.csic.es\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>Institute of Space Sciences<\/u><\/a><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> (ICE-CSIC) have a prominent role. In fact, the Director of the IEEC, <\/span><strong>Ignasi Ribas<\/strong><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\">, is the first author of this recently published work. He is accompanied by about a hundred experts from more than 30 research centres, including the other institutions of the consortium: the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpia.de\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>Max-Planck-Institut f&uuml;r Astronomie<\/u><\/a><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> (MPIA), the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaa.csic.es\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>Instituto de Astrof&iacute;sica de Andaluc&iacute;a<\/u><\/a><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> (IAA-CSIC), the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lsw.uni-heidelberg.de\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>Landessternwarte K&ouml;nigstuhl<\/u><\/a><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> (LSW), the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uni-goettingen.de\/de\/203293.html\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>Institut f&uuml;r Astrophysik G&ouml;ttingen<\/u><\/a><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> (IAG), the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucm.es\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>Universidad Complutense de Madrid<\/u><\/a><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> (UCM), the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tls-tautenburg.de\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>Th&uuml;ringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg<\/u><\/a><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> (TLS), the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iac.es\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>Instituto de Astrof&iacute;sica de Canarias<\/u><\/a><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> (IAC), the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hs.uni-hamburg.de\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>Hamburger Sternwarte<\/u><\/a><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> (HS), the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cab.inta-csic.es\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>Centro de Astrobiolog&iacute;a<\/u><\/a><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> (CAB, CSIC-INTA) and the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caha.es\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>Centro Astron&oacute;mico Hispano-Alem&aacute;n<\/u><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> <\/span><\/a><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\">(CAHA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\">The <\/span><strong>CARMENES instrument<\/strong><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> is an optical and near-infrared spectrograph, i.e. <\/span><strong>a<\/strong><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> <\/span><strong>device that measures both visible and infrared light from the objects it is pointing at<\/strong><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\">. It was installed in 2015 at Calar Alto Observatory with the aim of <\/span><strong>finding terrestrial-type exoplanets in nearby cool stars<\/strong><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> (the so-called red dwarfs). The light collected from a given star (the stellar spectrum) can give away the presence of exoplanets, as it allows to measure the small motions of the star produced by the gravitational pull of the planets orbiting it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\">The high-resolution spectra obtained with CARMENES are used to determine the velocity of the star with an accuracy of one metre per second, which is a major technological challenge. This makes it possible to find small planets around low-mass stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/FDBdv5O.png\" style=\"height:430px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; margin-top:0px; width:764px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:#000000\">Caption: Recreation of an Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of a nearby red dwarf.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:#000000\">Credits: Render Area \/ CARMENES\/ J. A. Caballero<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\">&quot;Since it came into operation, CARMENES has re-analysed 17 known planets and has discovered and confirmed 59 new planets in the vicinity of our Solar System, making a significant contribution to expanding the census of nearby exoplanets,&quot; explains Dr Ribas.&nbsp; In fact, <\/span><strong>this instrument has <\/strong><strong>boosted<\/strong><strong> the number of exoplanets we know about around nearby cool stars<\/strong><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> by doubling those detected with the previously described method. It is to be hoped that, with the publication of this first large dataset, the research community will analyse it and will be able to further increase its scientific output. Importantly, <\/span><strong>CARMENES has observed almost half of all nearby small stars<\/strong><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\"> (a part of them can only be observed from the southern hemisphere). In addition, the spectra obtained also provide <\/span><strong>extremely valuable information about the atmospheres of the stars and their planets<\/strong><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\">, among other features.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\">The paper published in Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics is <\/span><strong>the 100th article of the CARMENES consortium<\/strong><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#000000\">, which shows how successful the project has been in providing information about Earth-like exoplanets and their stars. In this study, the visible-light data have been released. Experts are still improving the processing of the infrared data, so when they are published, astronomers will have a second large set of observations to work with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#222222\">The CARMENES project continues in <\/span><strong>CARMENES Legacy-Plus<\/strong><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#222222\">, which started in 2021 and keeps taking more observations of the same stars. &ldquo;In order to determine the existence of planets around a star, we observe it a minimum of 50 times,&rdquo; explains <\/span><strong>Juan Carlos Morales<\/strong><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#222222\">, IEEC researcher at ICE-CSIC. He adds: &ldquo;Although the first round of data has already been published so that the scientific community can access them, the observations are still ongoing.&rdquo; The observations made in this project extension will continue at least until the end of 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Press release prepared in collaboration with the Communication Offices of the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC), the Centro de Astrobiolog&iacute;a (CAB, CSIC-INTA), the Instituto de Astrof&iacute;sica de Andaluc&iacute;a (IAA-CSIC), the Instituto de Astrof&iacute;sica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/6XnrYS5.jpg\" style=\"border:0px solid black; height:766px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; margin-top:0px; width:764px\" vspace=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:#000000\">Caption: All planets discovered with the same method as CARMENES, but with other instruments, are shown as grey dots in the image. With the data collected in the period 2016-2020, CARMENES has discovered and confirmed 6 &quot;Jupiter-like&quot; planets (with masses more than 50 times that of the Earth), 10 &quot;Neptunes&quot; (10 to 50 Earth masses) and 43 Earths and super-Earths (up to 10 Earth masses). The vertical axis shows what star type the planets orbit around, from the coolest and smallest red dwarfs to brighter and hotter stars (the Sun would correspond to the second from the top). The horizontal axis gives an idea of the distance from the planet to the star by showing the time it takes to complete the orbit. Planets that are in the habitable zone (blue-shaded area) can harbour liquid water on their surface.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:#000000\">Credit: Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#222222\">&#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/carmenes.caha.es\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>CARMENES<\/u><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#222222\">&#8211; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caha.es\/es\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>Calar Alto Observatory<\/u><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#222222\">&#8211; <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ieec.cat\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>IEEC<\/u><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#222222\">&#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.csic.es\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>ICE-CSIC&nbsp;<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>More information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#222222\">This research is presented in a paper entitled &ldquo;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aanda.org\/10.1051\/0004-6361\/202244879\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Guaranteed Time Observations Data Release 1 (2016-2020)<\/u><\/a><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#222222\">&rdquo;, by <\/span><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:#000000\">I. Ribas, <\/span><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:#222222\">A. Reiners<\/span><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#222222\"> <\/span><em>et al.<\/em><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#222222\">, to appear in the journal Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics on <\/span><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:#222222\">22 February <\/span><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#222222\">2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:#222222\">The Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC&nbsp; &mdash; Institut d&rsquo;Estudis Espacials de Catalunya) promotes and coordinates space research and technology development in Catalonia for the benefit of society. IEEC fosters collaborations both locally and worldwide and is an efficient agent of knowledge, innovation and technology transfer. As a result of 25 years of high-quality research, done in collaboration with major international organisations, IEEC ranks among the best international research centers, focusing on areas such as: astrophysics, cosmology, planetary science, and Earth Observation. IEEC&rsquo;s engineering division develops instrumentation for ground- and space-based projects, and has extensive experience in working with private or public organisations from the aerospace and other innovation sectors.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:#222222\">IEEC is a private non-profit foundation, governed by a Board of Trustees composed of Generalitat de Catalunya and four other institutions that each have a research unit, which together constitute the core of IEEC R&amp;D activity: the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) with the research unit ICCUB &mdash; Institute of Cosmos Sciences; the Universitat Aut&ograve;noma de Barcelona (UAB) with the research unit CERES &mdash; Center of Space Studies and Research; the Universitat Polit&egrave;cnica de Catalunya &middot; BarcelonaTech (UPC) with the research unit CTE &mdash; Research Group in Space Sciences and Technologies; the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) with the research unit ICE &mdash; Institute of Space Sciences. The IEEC is a CERCA (Centres de Recerca de Catalunya) centre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contacts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>IEEC Communication Office<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Barcelona, Spain<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#222222\">E-mail: <\/span><a href=\"mailto:comunicacio@ieec.cat\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>comunicacio@ieec.cat<\/u><\/a><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#222222\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Lead Researcher at IEEC<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Barcelona, Spain<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#222222\">Ignasi Ribas<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color:transparent; color:#000000\">Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#222222\">Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color:#ffffff; color:#222222\">E-mail: <\/span><a href=\"mailto:iribas@ieec.cat\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><u>iribas@ieec.cat<\/u><\/a>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20,000 observations from the Calar Alto telescope in Spain are made public, and have led to the discovery of 59 planets, some of them potentially habitable The study, led by a consortium of Spanish and German institutions, has the prominent participation of IEEC researchers The instrument has proven to be a success and will continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"2880","footnotes":""},"categories":[98,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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