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List of works by Pedro Figueira

A 1.9 Earth radius rocky planet and the discovery of a non-transiting planet in the Kepler-20 system

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

A Pair of TESS Planets Spanning the Radius Valley around the Nearby Mid-M Dwarf LTT 3780

scientific article

A Pragmatic Bayesian Perspective on Correlation Analysis : The exoplanetary gravity - stellar activity case.

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A Second Planet Transiting LTT 1445A and a Determination of the Masses of Both Worlds

scientific article published on 14 March 2022

A Spectral Survey of WASP-19b with ESPRESSO

scientific article published on 22 April 2021

A candidate short-period sub-Earth orbiting Proxima Centauri

scholarly article

A compositional link between rocky exoplanets and their host stars

scientific article published on 15 October 2021

A giant impact as the likely origin of different twins in the Kepler-107 exoplanet system

scientific article published in January 2019

A hot mini-Neptune in the radius valley orbiting solar analogue HD 110113

scientific article published on 25 January 2021

A hot terrestrial planet orbiting the bright M dwarf L 168-9 unveiled by TESS

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A new analysis of the WASP-3 system: no evidence for an additional companion

scientific article (publication date: 21 December 2012)

A precise architecture characterization of the π Mensae planetary system

scientific article published in October 2020

A remnant planetary core in the hot-Neptune desert

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

A sub-Neptune and a non-transiting Neptune-mass companion unveiled by ESPRESSO around the bright late-F dwarf HD 5278 (TOI-130)

scientific article published in April 2021

ACTIN: A tool to calculate stellar activity indices

scientific article published on 06 November 2018

Abundance trend with condensation temperature for stars with different Galactic birth places

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Activity induced variation in spin-orbit angles as derived from Rossiter-McLaughlin measurements

scientific article published in January 2018

An Earth-sized exoplanet with a Mercury-like composition

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An Earth-sized planet with an Earth-like density

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An Ultra-short Period Rocky Super-Earth with a Secondary Eclipse and a Neptune-like Companion around K2-141

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

An extreme planetary system around HD 219828

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrometric search for a planet around VB 10

scientific article published in January 2011

Atmospheric Rossiter–McLaughlin effect and transmission spectroscopy of WASP-121b with ESPRESSO

scientific article published on 22 December 2020

Atmospheric characterization of Proxima b by coupling the SPHERE high-contrast imager to the ESPRESSO spectrograph

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Beyond the exoplanet mass-radius relation

scientific article published in October 2019

Broadband transmission spectroscopy of HD 209458b with ESPRESSO: evidence for Na, TiO, or both

scientific article

Bulk composition of the transiting hot Neptune around GJ436

scientific article published in January 2009

CaRM: Exploring the chromatic Rossiter-McLaughlin effect

scientific article published in April 2022

Can stellar activity make a planet seem misaligned?

scientific article published in January 2016

Characterization of the K2-38 planetary system

scientific article published in September 2020

Characterization of the L 98-59 multi-planetary system with HARPS

scientific article published in September 2019

Characterization of the planetary system Kepler-101 with HARPS-N

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Characterizing Exoplanetary Atmospheres at High Resolution with SPIRou: Detection of Water on HD 189733 b

scientific article published on 9 November 2021

Characterizing K2 planet discoveries: a super-earth transiting the bright K dwarf HIP 116454

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Charge Transfer Inefficiency effect for high-precision radial velocity measurements

Chemical Abundances of Neutron-capture Elements in Exoplanet-hosting Stars

Comparing HARPS and Kepler surveys. The alignment of multiple-planet systems

scientific article published in January 2012

Comparing radial velocities of atmospheric lines with radiosonde measurements

scientific article

Constraining planet structure from stellar chemistry: the cases of CoRoT-7, Kepler-10, and Kepler-93

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Detecting ring systems around exoplanets using high resolution spectroscopy: the case of 51 Pegasi b

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Detection of barium in the atmospheres of the ultra-hot gas giants WASP-76b and WASP-121b

EELT-HIRES the high-resolution spectrograph for the E-ELT

ELT-HIRES, the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT: results from the Phase A study

scientific article published on 6 July 2018

ELT-HIRES, the high resolution spectrograph for the ELT: the Phase A study and the path to construction

scientific article published on 13 December 2020

ESPRESSO data flow: from design to development

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ESPRESSO high-resolution transmission spectroscopy of WASP-76 b

scientific article published in February 2021

ESPRESSO highlights the binary nature of the ultra-metal-poor giant HE 0107−5240

scientific article published in January 2020

ESPRESSO, an exo-Earths hunter for the VLT

ESPRESSO: The next European exoplanet hunter

ESPRESSO: the radial velocity machine for the VLT

ESPRESSO: the ultimate rocky exoplanets hunter for the VLT

Eclipsing binaries and fast rotators in the Kepler sample. Characterization via radial velocity analysis from Calar Alto

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Eniric: Extended NIR Information Content

scientific article published on 08 May 2019

Estimation of mercury background values in sediment and biota of the Bijagós archipelago, Guinea-Bissau

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Evaluating the stability of atmospheric lines with HARPS

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Evidence against the young hot-Jupiter around BD +20 1790

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Evidence for a spectroscopic direct detection of reflected light from 51 Pegasi b

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Evidence of a substellar companion around a very young T Tauri star

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Exoplanet characterisation in the longest known resonant chain: the K2-138 system seen by HARPS

scientific article

Exoplanet hosts reveal lithium depletion

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Exoplanet transmission spectroscopy: accounting for the eccentricity and the longitude of periastron. Superwinds in the upper atmosphere of HD 209458b?

scientific article published in January 2011

Eyes on K2-3: A system of three likely sub-Neptunes characterized with HARPS-N and HARPS

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Finding proto-spectroscopic binaries. Precise multi-epoch radial velocities of seven protostars in {rho} Ophiuchus

scholarly article

From stellar to planetary composition: Galactic chemical evolution of Mg/Si mineralogical ratio

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Further constraints on the optical transmission spectrum of HAT-P-1b

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

GJ 367b: A dense, ultrashort-period sub-Earth planet transiting a nearby red dwarf star

scientific article published on 3 December 2021

HARPS-N radial velocities confirm the low densities of the Kepler-9 planets

scholarly article

HD 213885b: a transiting 1-d-period super-Earth with an Earth-like composition around a bright (V = 7.9) star unveiled by TESS

scientific article published on 19 November 2019

HD 219666 b: a hot-Neptune from TESS Sector 1

scientific article

HD 22496 b: The first ESPRESSO stand-alone planet discovery

scientific article published in October 2021

HIRES: the high resolution spectrograph for the E-ELT

Habitable planets eclipsing brown dwarfs: strategies for detection and characterization

scientific article published in January 2013

Harps-N: the new planet hunter at TNG

scholarly article

Identifying the best iron-peak andα-capture elements for chemical tagging: The impact of the number of lines on measured scatter

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Impact of micro-telluric lines on precise radial velocities and its correction

scientific article published in January 2014

Impact of occultations of stellar active regions on transmission spectra. Can occultation of a plage mimic the signature of a blue sky?

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Impact of stellar companions on precise radial velocities

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Into the storm: diving into the winds of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76 b with HARPS and ESPRESSO

scientific article published in September 2021

Is the activity level of HD 80606 influenced by its eccentric planet?

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

K2-111: an old system with two planets in near-resonance†

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K2-263 b: a 50 d period sub-Neptune with a mass measurement using HARPS-N

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K2-291b: A Rocky Super-Earth in a 2.2 day Orbit

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KEPLER-21b: A ROCKY PLANET AROUND AV= 8.25 mag STAR

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Kepler-447b: a hot-Jupiter with an extremely grazing transit

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Kinematics and chemical properties of the Galactic stellar populations

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Li abundances in F stars: planets, rotation, and Galactic evolution

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Line-profile variations in radial-velocity measurements. Two alternative indicators for planetary searches

scientific article published in January 2013

Line-profile variations in radial-velocity measurements. Two alternative indicators for planetary searches (Corrigendum)

scientific article published in January 2015

Magnetic activity and hot Jupiters of young Suns: the weak-line T Tauri stars V819 Tau and V830 Tau

scholarly article

Masses and compositions of three small planets orbiting the nearby M dwarf L231-32 (TOI-270) and the M dwarf radius valley

scientific article published on 24 August 2021

Masses and radii for the three super-Earths orbiting GJ 9827, and implications for the composition of small exoplanets

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Masses for the seven planets in K2-32 and K2-233

scientific article published in August 2020

Modeling the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect: impact of the convective center-to-limb variations in the stellar photosphere

scientific article published in January 2016

Near-InfraRed Planet Searcher to Join HARPS on the ESO 3.6-metre Telescope

scientific article

Nightside condensation of iron in an ultrahot giant exoplanet

scientific article published on 11 March 2020

Observational evidence for two distinct giant planet populations

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

On the origin of stars with and without planets

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Optical and Near-infrared Radial Velocity Content of M Dwarfs: Testing Models with Barnard’s Star

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Orbital and physical properties of planets and their hosts: new insights on planet formation and evolution

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Orbital migration induced by anisotropic evaporation

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Planetary system LHS 1140 revisited with ESPRESSO and TESS

scientific article

Planets around evolved intermediate-mass stars. II. Are there really planets around IC 4651 No. 9122, NGC 2423 No. 3, and NGC 4349 No. 127?

scholarly article

Planets or Spots: tests and diagnostics in single and multi-planet systems

Polar stellar-spots and grazing planetary transits

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Precise masses for the transiting planetary system HD 106315 with HARPS

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Probing the effect of gravitational microlensing on the measurements of the Rossiter-McLaughlin effect

scientific article

Radial velocities with CRIRES . Pushing precision down to 5-10 m/s

scientific article published in January 2010

Radial velocity confirmation of Kepler-91 b

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Radial velocity information content of M dwarf spectra in the near-infrared

scientific article published in January 2016

Recovering the colour-dependent albedo of exoplanets with high-resolution spectroscopy: from ESPRESSO to the ELT

scientific article published on 28 June 2018

Reflected Light from Giant Planets in Habitable Zones: Tapping into the Power of the Cross-Correlation Function

scientific article published on 31 March 2016

Retrieving the transmission spectrum of HD 209458b using CHOCOLATE: a new chromatic Doppler tomography technique

scientific article published on 21 December 2021

Revisiting Proxima with ESPRESSO

scientific article published on 27 May 2020

Revisiting the correlation between stellar activity and planetary surface gravity

scientific article published in January 2014

Rotational and Rotational-Vibrational Raman Spectroscopy of Air to Characterize Astronomical Spectrographs

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

SPIRou @ CFHT: data reduction software and simulation tools

SPIRou: the near-infrared spectropolarimeter/high-precision velocimeter for the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope

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Six transiting planets and a chain of Laplace resonances in TOI-178

scholarly article

So close, so different: characterization of the K2-36 planetary system with HARPS-N

scientific article

Solar analogs with and without planets: Tctrends and Galactic evolution

Spectroscopic characterisation of microlensing events

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Spectroscopic direct detection of reflected light from extrasolar planets

scientific article published in January 2013

Star-planet connection through metallicity

State of the Field: Extreme Precision Radial Velocities

scientific article

Stellar clustering and orbital architecture of planetary systems

scientific article published in May 2021

TESS and HARPS reveal two sub-Neptunes around TOI 1062

scientific article published in September 2021

THE MASS OF Kepler-93b AND THE COMPOSITION OF TERRESTRIAL PLANETS

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

TOI-220  b : a warm sub-Neptune discovered by TESS

scientific article published on 22 May 2021

TOI-269 b: an eccentric sub-Neptune transiting a M2 dwarf revisited with ExTrA

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TOI-674b: An oasis in the desert of exo-Neptunes transiting a nearby M dwarf

scientific article published in September 2021

TOI–1278 B: SPIRou Unveils a Rare Brown Dwarf Companion in Close-in Orbit around an M Dwarf

scientific article published on 16 September 2021

TW Hya under CRIRES light: evidence against the presence of a hot Jupiter

TW Hydrae: evidence of stellar spots instead of a Hot Jupiter

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Telluric correction in the near-infrared: Standard star or synthetic transmission?

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The CORALIE survey for southern extrasolar planets. XVI. Discovery of a planetary system around HD 147018 and of two long period and massive planets orbiting HD 171238 and HD 204313

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The CORALIE survey for southern extrasolar planets. XVII. New and updated long period and massive planets

scholarly article

The CORALIE survey for southern extrasolar planets. XVIII. Three new massive planets and two low-mass brown dwarfs at greater than 5 AU separation

scholarly article

The EChO science case

scientific article (publication date: 29 November 2015)

The GAPS Programme with HARPS-N at TNG. XVII. Line profile indicators and kernel regression as diagnostics of radial-velocity variations due to stellar activity in solar-like stars

scientific article

The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XL. Searching for Neptunes around metal-poor stars

scientific article published in January 2016

The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XLIII. A compact system of four super-Earth planets orbiting HD 215152

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The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XLIV. Eight HARPS multi-planet systems hosting 20 super-Earth and Neptune-mass companions

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The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XLVI. 12 super-Earths around the solar type stars HD 39194, HD 93385, HD 96700, HD 154088, and HD 189567

scientific article published in October 2021

The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XXI. Three new giant planets orbiting the metal-poor stars HD 5388, HD 181720, and HD 190984

scholarly article

The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XXXIX. HD175607, the most metal-poor G dwarf with an orbiting sub-Neptune

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The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XXXV. The interesting case of HD 41248: stellar activity, no planets?

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The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. XXXVIII. Bayesian re-analysis of three systems. New super-Earths, unconfirmed signals, and magnetic cycles

scholarly article

The HARPS search for southern extrasolar planets. XXV. Results from the metal-poor sample

scientific article published in January 2011

The HARPS-N Rocky Planet Search. I. HD 219134 b: A transiting rocky planet in a multi-planet system at 6.5 pc from the Sun

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The HD 137496 system: A dense, hot super-Mercury and a cold Jupiter

scientific article published in January 2022

The Kepler-10 planetary system revisited by HARPS-N: a hot rocky world and a solid neptune-mass planet

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The Kepler-19 System: A Thick-envelope Super-Earth with Two Neptune-mass Companions Characterized Using Radial Velocities and Transit Timing Variations

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The Kepler-454 system: a small, not-rocky inner planet, a jovian world, and a distant companion

scientific article

The PLATO 2.0 mission

The RoPES project with HARPS and HARPS-N. I. A system of super-Earths orbiting the moderately active K-dwarf HD 176986

scientific article published in January 2018

The Rossiter–McLaughlin effect revolutions: an ultra-short period planet and a warm mini-Neptune on perpendicular orbits

scientific article published in October 2021

The TROY project

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The TROY project: Searching for co-orbital bodies to known planets

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The atmosphere of HD 209458b seen with ESPRESSO

scientific article published in March 2021

The contribution of secondary eclipses as astrophysical false positives to exoplanet transit surveys

scientific article published in January 2013

The first radial velocity measurements of a microlensing event: no evidence for the predicted binary

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The metallicity–period–mass diagram of low-mass exoplanets

scientific article

The polar orbit of the warm Neptune GJ 436b seen with VLT/ESPRESSO

scientific article published in July 2022

Three Red Suns in the Sky: A Transiting, Terrestrial Planet in a Triple M-dwarf System at 6.9 pc

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

Three planets transiting the evolved star EPIC 249893012: a hot 8.8-M⊕ super-Earth and two warm 14.7 and 10.2-M⊕ sub-Neptunes

scientific article published in April 2020

Three super-Earths and a possible water world from TESS and ESPRESSO

Transit-timing measurements with the model-independent barycenter method: application to the LHS 6343 system

scientific article published in January 2012

Trumpler 20 - an old and rich open cluster

scientific article published in January 2008

Uncovering the planets and stellar activity of CoRoT-7 using only radial velocities

scientific article published in January 2016

Understanding stellar activity-induced radial velocity jitter using simultaneous K2 photometry and HARPS RV measurements

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

WASP-127b: a misaligned planet with a partly cloudy atmosphere and tenuous sodium signature seen by ESPRESSO

scientific article published in December 2020

Warm terrestrial planet with half the mass of Venus transiting a nearby star

scientific article published in September 2021

Which Type of Planets do We Expect to Observe in the Habitable Zone?

scientific article published on 16 June 2016

kima: Exoplanet detection in radial velocities

scientific article published on 19 June 2018

pastis: Bayesian extrasolar planet validation - II. Constraining exoplanet blend scenarios using spectroscopic diagnoses

scientific article published in January 2015

{zeta}^2^ Reticuli, its debris disk, and its lonely stellar companion {zeta}^1^ Ret. Different T_c_ trends for different spectra

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics