Strong XUV irradiation of the Earth-sized exoplanets orbiting the ultracool dwarf TRAPPIST-1 Wheatley, Peter J.; Louden, Tom; Bourrier, Vincent; Ehrenreich, David; Gillon, Michaël Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, vol. 465, issue 1, pp. L74-L78 (02/2017) Link
First limits on the occurrence rate of short-period planets orbiting brown dwarfs He, Matthias Y.; Triaud, Amaury H. M. J.; Gillon, Michaël Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 464, Issue 3, p.2687-2697 (01/2017) Link
Water loss from terrestrial planets orbiting ultracool dwarfs: implications for the planets of TRAPPIST-1 Bolmont, E.; Selsis, F.; Owen, J. E.; Ribas, I.; Raymond, S. N.; Leconte, J.; Gillon, M. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 464, Issue 3, p.3728-3741 (01/2017) Link
Probing TRAPPIST-1-like Systems with K2 Demory, Brice-Olivier; Queloz, Didier; Alibert, Yann; Gillen, Ed; Gillon, Michael The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 825, Issue 2, article id. L25, 5 pp. (2016) Link
A combined transmission spectrum of the Earth-sized exoplanets TRAPPIST-1 b and c de Wit, Julien; Wakeford, Hannah R.; Gillon, Michaë:l; Lewis, Nikole K.; Valenti, Jeff A.; Demory, Brice-Olivier; Burgasser, Adam J.; Burdanov, Artem; Delrez, Laetitia; Jehin, Emmanuël; Lederer, Susan M.; Queloz, Didier; Triaud, Amaury H. M. J.; Van Grootel, Valérie Nature, Volume 537, Issue 7618, pp. 69-72 (2016) Link
Temperate Earth-sized planets transiting a nearby ultracool dwarf star Gillon, Michaël; Jehin, Emmanuël; Lederer, Susan M.; Delrez, Laetitia; de Wit, Julien; Burdanov, Artem; Van Grootel, Valérie; Burgasser, Adam J.; Triaud, Amaury H. M. J.; Opitom, Cyrielle; Demory, Brice-Olivier; Sahu, Devendra K.; Bardalez Gagliuffi, Daniella; Magain, Pierre; Queloz, Didier Nature, Volume 533, Issue 7602, pp. 221-224 (2016) Link
Monitoring Campaign for Luhman 16AB. I. Detection of Resolved Near-infrared Spectroscopic Variability. Burgasser A. J., Gillon M., Faherty J. K., Radigan J., Triaud A.H. M. J.; Plavchan P., Street R., Jehin E., Delrez L., Opitom C. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 785, 48. Link
WISE J072003.20-084651.2: An Old and Active M9.5 + T5 Spectral Binary 6 pc from the Sun. Burgasser A. J., Gillon M., Melis C., Bowler B. P.; Michelsen E. L., Bardalez G. D., Gelino C. R., Jehin E., Delrez L., Manfroid J., Blake, C. H. The Astronomical Journal (in press) Link
Astronomers revisit dwarf stars' promise Reich E. G. Nature, Vol 502, 606 Link
Fast-evolving weather for the coolest of our two new substellar neighbours Gillon M., Triaud A. H. M. J., Jehin E., Delrez L., Opitom C., Magain P., Lendl M., Queloz D. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 555, L5 Link
Conference proceedings
SPECULOOS, a search for terrestrial planets transiting the nearest coolest stars Gillon M. MIT Kavli Institute Conference Link
SPECULOOS: Search for habitable Planets EClipsing ULtra-cOOl Stars Gillon M., Jehin E., Delrez L., Magain P., Opitom C., Sohy S. Protostars and Planets VU, Heidelberg, July 15-20, 2013. Poster #2K66 Link File
TRAPPIST-UCDTS: A prototype search for habitable planets transiting ultra-cool stars Gillon, M.; Jehin, E.; Fumel, A.; Magain, P.; Queloz, D. Hot Planets and Cool Stars, Garching, Germany, Edited by Roberto Saglia; EPJ Web of Conferences, Volume 47, id.03001, (2013) Link
Press Releases
European Research Council (ERC) is granting the LiSRI members! Liège Space Research Institute, 24/09/2013 Link
Deux astrophysiciens de l'ULg soutenus par le Conseil Européen de la Recherche afin de détecter des exoplanètes comparables à la Terre Communiqué de presse ULg, 11/09/2013 Link
Articles in newspapers
A la recherche des exoplanètes porteuses de vie. Un entretien avec l'astrophysicienne Valérie Van Grootel Le Monde, blog passeur de sciences, 3 Avril 2014 Link
A la recherche d'autres mondes Athena, 295, Novembre 2013
SPECULOOS, bien plus qu'un simple biscuit FNRS News, 94, September 2013
