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ExoPlanetNews is a monthly electronic Newsletter listing abstracts of newly accepted papers in the Exoplanet Field including: Discoveries and observations of exoplanets Protostellar and Debris Disks Theoretical simulations of planet formation Exoplanetary atmospheres and interiors Comparative planetology Formation and dynamics of planetary systems Planetary evolution and habitability Instrumentation and missions Origin and evolution of life on terrestrial planets Co-evolution of life, atmospheres and climate Characterisation of terrestrial exoplanets Detection of biomarkers Other sections describe recent PhD theses, new meetings, new books and job offers specifically aimed at the ExoPlanet community. ExoPlanetNews will be published around the second week of the month. To be added to the circulation list, please follow the instructions further below. December 2024: 1’309 active recipients (from 1.1.2024 onward, stale and defunct email addresses are continuously removed). Current Newsletter: EPNews issue 186 (for archive see below) Issue #187 will be sent on: Tuesday, January 14th (deadline end of Sun January 12th, 2025 CEST) Issue #188 will be sent on: Tuesday, February 11th (deadline end of Sun February 09th, 2025 CEST) Issue #189 will be sent on: Tuesday, March 11th (deadline end of Sun March 09th, 2024 CEST)

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We rely on you sending us abstracts of your recently accepted papers, which we will then edit into the newsletter. A LaTeX template for submitting abstracts is available by clicking here and the relevant style file is here. We also welcome conference announcements, job adverts or thesis abstracts in this area and kindly ask you to use the same LaTex template. Please send abstracts to exoplanetnews At nccr-planets.ch

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Links

• Exoplanet resources:
• The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog
• Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
• Exoplanet data explorer
• NASA Exoplanet Archive
• TEPCat
• DACE

• Exoplanet-related Space Missions:
• CHEOPS – CHaracterizing ExOPlanet Satellite
• CoRoT (Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits)
• EChO – Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory
• Kepler and K2
• PLATO – Planetary Transits and Oscillations
• TESS – Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
• ARIEL – the Atmospheric Remote-sensing Infrared Exoplanet Large-survey
• Gaia – A space observatory of the European Space Agency (ESA)
• WFIRST – Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope
• JWST – James Webb Space Telescope

Contact

ExoPlanetNews is edited by NCCR PlanetS members Daniel Angerhausen, Jeanne Davoult, Leander Schlarmann, and Haiyang Wang. The editor-in-chief role is assigned per issue on a rotating basis. The ExoPlanetNews web contents and archive are maintained by NCCR PlanetS members Timm Riesen and Jonas Frey. The team can be contacted by sending a message to this email address.