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Hans J. Deeg
Juan Antonio Belmonte
Editors
Handbook of
Exoplanets
Handbook of Exoplanets
Hans J. Deeg • Juan Antonio Belmonte
Editors
Handbook of Exoplanets
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Editors
Hans J. Deeg Juan Antonio Belmonte
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias
La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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Foreword
In the search for other worlds, the last decades have probably been among the
most exciting over the past centuries, possibly since the years of the Copernican
heliocentrism and the discovery by Galileo of the Moons around Jupiter. The large
series of breakthroughs in the search for exoworlds make this recent period a rather
remarkable time in the history of astronomy which appears to be as fascinating as
the one about 400 years ago when humankind started to abandon geocentrism.
During the past 25 years, we have witnessed the detection of planets orbiting
thousands of nearby and distant stars. Since the discovery of the first planets around
pulsars in the early 1990s and the first Jupiter-mass planet around the solar-type
star 51 Peg in 1995, a large diversity of planetary systems, has been identified in
the nearby universe. Efficient hunting programs have provided increasing statistical
evidence that planets are very common around stars. More than 50% of the stars
in our galaxy may host planetary systems and therefore, tens of billions may await
discovery. The detection rate of exoplanets has only increased with time, reaching
values above one exoplanet discovery per day. The number of known exoplanets,
several thousand, will considerably increase in the coming decade thanks to the
many search programs already started or planned for ground and space telescopes.
The study of this extremely rich population of planetary systems will lead to a
better understanding of their architecture and the physics involved in the formation
processes. Ultimately, the ongoing search and characterization work may unveil
planets with adequate conditions to sustain the development of life and will pave
the road to the discovery of exolife.
Planets with masses similar to those existing in the Solar System are frequently
found in other planetary systems, displaying very different physical conditions.
Exoplanets appear in a large range of orbital separations around a variety of stars
and therefore are subject to very different stellar irradiations. The properties of the
planets depend heavily on their mass, chemical composition, stellar irradiation, and
on their interaction with the host stars’ gravity, radiation, and magnetic field. Obser-
vations have revealed and will continue bringing to light an enormous diversity of
planets and planetary systems conforming an exceptional set of laboratories which
will challenge our knowledge on physics, chemistry, geology, and biology.
The masses of known exoplanets span the range between the mass of the Earth
and several times the mass of Jupiter. While our Solar System provides useful
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attractive targets for atmospheric characterization via transit spectroscopy with the
new suite of large diameter ground and space telescopes.
Evidence for the existence of terrestrial planets is compelling, and planets
with similar mass, size, and physical conditions potentially similar to the Earth
have already been discovered. Planet Proxima b in the nearest star to the Sun,
detected using Doppler radial velocity measurements, is the closest example of
a continuously increasing family. Such rocky planets may host liquid water,
and the characterization of their thin atmospheres will be an extraordinary chal-
lenge, even for the new generation of extremely large telescopes. Proxima b is
not known to transit its parent star, and direct imaging and spectroscopy with
coronographs assisted by Adaptive Optics on very large and extremely large
telescopes is a promising way to obtain information on its atmospheric properties.
Identifying tracers of biological activity will possibly require new technological
advances.
The Kepler space observatory and other ground-based observatories have iden-
tified a large number of transiting planets, including those of Earth-size. Series
of radial velocity measurements of the host stars could in principle achieve a
determination of the masses for these small planets, which typically induce radial
velocity semi-amplitudes of tens of cm/s in solar type stars. The advent of a new
generation of ultra-stable high dispersion spectrographs at very large telescopes
(ESPRESSO is the first to achieve 10 cm/s) will make possible such measurements
in a fraction of the detected systems, leading to the obtainment of planet densities
and further insight on the formation processes of terrestrial planets. In multiple
transiting planet systems, transit time variability observations can also provide a
determination of masses.
Bright stars with transiting Earth-size planets offer an excellent opportunity to
study planet atmospheric properties with JWST and the ELTs. A large effort is
currently undertaken to search for transiting planets in the habitable zone of nearby
stars using a series of dedicated ground-based telescopes (MEarth, SPECULOOS,
etc.) and space observatories (TESS). In the future, other space telescopes like
JWST, CHEOPS, and PLATO and the extremely large telescopes (EELT, TMT,
GMT) will bring exceptional capacities for the characterization of the atmospheres
of a large variety of exoplanets, including the new terrestrials.
This Handbook of Exoplanets provides an outstanding vision on the state of the
art of exoplanet research, as well as describes the historical evolution of the field
from first discoveries to the most recent detections. It includes a revision of the
theories of formation and evolution for the various types of planets and the on going
effort to characterize both planet interiors and their atmospheric properties. Current
knowledge on exoplanet properties is confronted with the detailed information
provided by planets in the Solar System and by brown dwarfs. The atmospheres of
nearby free-floating brown dwarfs can be studied in great detail and offer important
insight and guidance for the exploration of exoplanet atmospheres in a large range
of temperatures extending below the temperature of the atmosphere of the Earth.
viii Foreword
This book also offers an overview of recent advances in the various techniques
employed in the field and shows how progress on direct imaging, radial velocities,
transit photometry and spectroscopy, microlensing, astrometry, etc., will enable the
path to understanding the origin, evolution, and the physical/chemical properties of
the large diversity of planets so far discovered, including those similar to Earth.
About 25 years after the discovery of the first exoplanets by a few scattered pioneers,
the field of exoplanetology has developed into a principal branch of astronomy,
producing over a thousand scientific articles every year. The underlying central
question that motivates most of its activity, “Are we alone in the Universe?” and
“What are the origins of our and of other Worlds?” can now be illuminated from
several angles, but a conclusive answer remains in the distance. The present work
is a first attempt to summarize the current status of the science driven by these
questions. The idea for it started almost like a joke during a dinner in a sympathetic
Korean Restaurant during the 29th IAU General Assembly in Honolulu. Three years
later, that embryo has developed into four heavy volumes, with contributions by over
200 scientists. We, as Editors-in-Chief of this project, are very proud of how our
colleagues, partners, friends, and even some scientific rivals have taken a substantial
part of their more than busy lives to make this possible. A big “Thank you” to all of
them!
The Handbook of Exoplanets, like other major reference works by Springer, has
been organized into Sections. Each of them was developed under the supervision
of one or more dedicated Section Editors. The work of these scholars has been
absolutely fundamental for the success of the project. Dear Tsevi, Agustín, María
Rosa, Alex, Norio, Malcolm, Roi, Hans, Nuccio, Natalie, Sara, Ralph, Pedro, Vikki,
Rory, and Jean, you cannot imagine how thankful we are!
The Handbook is organized along both a chronological and thematic perspective.
The first section “Exoplanet Research: A History of Discovery” serves as an
introduction for the Handbook. Then, two sections follow that contextualize exo-
planets within the wider field of astronomy: “Solar System–Exoplanet Synergies”
and “Between Planets and Stars,” devoted to the celestial bodies of our vicinity,
including the Earth and objects like free-floating planets or brown dwarfs. The
major part of the Handbook describes the observational efforts of the last 25
years, namely “Planet Discovery Methods,” “Ground-Based Instrumental Projects
for Exoplanet Research,” “Space Missions for Exoplanet Research,” and “Exoplanet
Characterization.” The central stars are fundamental for our understanding of planet
systems, hence the sections devoted to: “Characterizing Planet Host Stars” and
“Planets and Their Stars: Interactions.” The next section of the Handbook introduces
the status of interpretative work in exoplanet science. First, the major global results
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are given in the section “Catalogues, Planet Abundances and Statistics.” The most
detailed knowledge we have about exoplanets is about their atmospheres, hence
the section “Exoplanet Atmospheres.” The question about our and other worlds’
origins is directly confronted in “Formation and Evolution of Planets and Planet
Systems.” One of the major observational results is our awareness of the variety of
other worlds that exist in the Universe, which motivated the section named “The
Diversity of Worlds: An Exoplanet Fauna.” The largest section of this book “Where
Life May Arise: Habitability” is directly dedicated to the fundamental question “Are
we alone?” We do not have a crystal ball suggesting what will be next in our field.
However, we felt the necessity to envisage how it may develop; hence, the book
concludes with “The Future: What Will Be Next?”
Certainly, there will be colleagues who point out that important topics have been
omitted and they will likely be correct. However, this work has been envisaged
as a living document in which future developments, as well as updates of current
ones, will be addressed in its electronic edition. So, it is open to suggestions and
improvements, and we invite readers to provide feedback. Our ultimate hope is
that sometimes in the future there will be chapters or whole sections, not devoted
to remote observations and exoplanet habitability as of today, but rather to results
from in situ missions and to exoplanet habitats. Future provides indeed a wide open
window to our understanding of the Universe!
Volume 1
Section I Exoplanet Research: A History of Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Tsevi Mazeh
1 The Discovery of the First Exoplanets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Davide Cenadelli and Andrea Bernagozzi
2 PSR B1257+12 and the First Confirmed Planets Beyond the
Solar System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Alexander Wolszczan
3 Prehistory of Transit Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Danielle Briot and Jean Schneider
4 Discovery of the First Transiting Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Edward W. Dunham
5 The Way to Circumbinary Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Laurance R. Doyle and Hans J. Deeg
6 The Naming of Extrasolar Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Frederic V. Hessman
7 Impact of Exoplanet Science in the Early Twenty-First
Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Hans J. Deeg and Juan Antonio Belmonte
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Volume 2
Section V Ground-Based Instrumental Projects for
Exoplanet Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 853
Norio Narita
Volume 3
Section IX Planets and Their Stars: Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1697
Antonino F. Lanza
82 Planet and Star Interactions: Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1699
Antonino F. Lanza
83 Rotation of Planet-Hosting Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1705
Pierre F. L. Maxted
84 Stellar Coronal Activity and Its Impact on Planets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1723
Giuseppina Micela
85 Signatures of Star-Planet Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1737
Evgenya L. Shkolnik and Joe Llama
86 Magnetic Fields in Planet-Hosting Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755
Claire Moutou, Rim Fares, and Jean-François Donati
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Volume 4
Section XIII The Diversity of Worlds: An Exoplanet Fauna . . . . . . . . . . 2569
Pedro Figueira
118 HD189733b: The Transiting Hot Jupiter That Revealed a
Hazy and Cloudy Atmosphere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2571
François Bouchy
119 WASP-12b: A Mass-Losing Extremely
Hot Jupiter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2585
Carole A. Haswell
120 Transiting Disintegrating Planetary Debris Around
WD 1145+017 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2603
Andrew Vanderburg and Saul A. Rappaport
121 Proxima b: The Detection of the Earth-Type Planet
Candidate Orbiting Our Closest Neighbor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2627
Guillem Anglada-Escudé, Mikko Tuomi, Ignasi Ribas,
Ansgar Reiners, Pedro J. Amado, and Guillem Anglada
122 HR8799: Imaging a System of Exoplanets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2645
Quinn M. Konopacky and Travis S. Barman
123 Fomalhaut’s Dusty Debris Belt and Eccentric Planet . . . . . . . . . . . 2669
Paul G. Kalas
124 55 Cancri (Copernicus): A Multi-planet System with a Hot
Super-Earth and a Jupiter Analogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2677
Debra A. Fischer
125 Planets in Mean-Motion Resonances and the System Around
HD45364 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2693
Alexandre C. M. Correia, Jean-Baptiste Delisle, and
Jacques Laskar
126 Tightly Packed Planetary Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2713
Rebekah I. Dawson
127 Circumbinary Planets Around Evolved Stars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2731
T. R. Marsh
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128 Two Suns in the Sky: The Kepler Circumbinary Planets . . . . . . . . 2749
William F. Welsh and Jerome A. Orosz
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3451
About the Editors
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xxvi About the Editors
Exoplanet Characterization
Roi Alonso Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
Departamento de Astrofísica, La Laguna, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna,
Tenerife, Spain
xxvii
xxviii Section Editors
Exoplanet Atmospheres
Sara Seager Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
xxix
xxx Contributors
Juan Cabrera Institut für Planetenforschung, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft – und
Raumfahrt, Berlin, Germany
Andrew Collier Cameron Centre for Exoplanet Science, SUPA School of Physics
and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
Joleen Carlberg Instruments Division, Space Telescope Science Institute,
Baltimore, MD, USA
A. Carmona IRAP/OMP, Toulouse, France
Davide Cenadelli Osservatorio Astronomico della Regione Autonoma Valle
d’Aosta, Nus (Aosta), Italy
Z. Challita IRAP/OMP, Toulouse, France
William J. Chaplin School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham,
Birmingham, UK
Sébastien Charnoz Université Paris Diderot/Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris,
France
Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard Stellar Astrophysics Centre, Department of
Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
Jessie Christiansen IPAC, Pasadena, CA, USA
Cathie Clarke Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
L. Ilsedore Cleeves Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge,
MA, USA
Alexandre C. M. Correia CIDMA, Departamento de Física, Universidade de
Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
Athena Coustenis LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, PSL Universities,
UPMC, UPD, Meudon, France
Nicolas B. Cowan McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
Ian A. Crawford Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck College,
University of London, London, UK
Aurélien Crida Université Côte d’Azur/Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Lagrange,
Nice, France
Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
Alex J. Cridland Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
Ian J. M. Crossfield Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technol-
ogy, Cambridge, MA, USA
Nicolas Crouzet Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, San Cristóbal de La Laguna,
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Contributors xxxiii
Uffe Gråe Jørgensen Centre for Star and Planet Formation, Niels Bohr Institute,
University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Nathan A. Kaib HL Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
Paul G. Kalas Astronomy Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA,
USA
SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, USA
Nancy Y. Kiang NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, USA
Seung-Lee Kim Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), Daejeon,
Republic of Korea
Hans Kjeldsen Stellar Astrophysics Centre, Department of Physics and Astron-
omy, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
Hubert Klahr Max Planck Institut for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany
Quinn M. Konopacky Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of
California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Ravi Kumar Kopparapu NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD,
USA
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Tommi T. Koskinen Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ, USA
D. Kouach IRAP/OMP, Toulouse, France
Quentin Kral Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Michael Kramer MPI für Radioastrononomie, Bonn, Germany
Laura Kreidberg Harvard Society of Fellows, Cambridge, MA, USA
Antoine Labeyrie Collège de France and Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Caus-
sols, France
M. Lacombe IRAP/OMP, Toulouse, France
Antonino F. Lanza INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Catania, Italy
Jacques Laskar ASD, IMCCE-CNRS UMR8028, Paris, France
Gregory Laughlin Department of Astronomy, Yale University, New Haven, CT,
USA
Panayotis Lavvas GSMA, UMR 7331, CNRS, Université de Reims, Champagne-
Ardenne, Reims, France
xxxviii Contributors
Eric L. Nielsen Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA, USA
Stephanie L. Olson NASA Astrobiology Institute and Department of Earth Sci-
ences, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
Jerome A. Orosz Astronomy Department, San Diego State University, San Diego,
CA, USA
Enric Pallé Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
L. Parès IRAP/OMP, Toulouse, France
Byeong-Gon Park Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI), Dae-
jeon, Republic of Korea
Vivien Parmentier Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tuc-
son, AZ, USA
Hannu Parviainen Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, La Laguna, Spain
Departamento de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain
Francesco Pepe Département d’Astronomie, Observatoire de l’Université de
Genéve, Versoix, GE, Switzerland
Joshua Pepper Department of Physics, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA
Thomas Pfeil Max Planck Institut for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany
Noemí Pinilla-Alonso Florida Space Institute, UCF, Orlando, FL, USA
Ralph E. Pudritz Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University,
Hamilton, ON, Canada
Origins Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Laurent Pueyo STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
P. Rabou IPAG, Paris, France
Saul A. Rappaport Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA, USA
Heike Rauer Institute of Planetary Research, German Aerospace Center, Berlin,
Germany
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Berlin University of Technology,
Berlin, Germany
Sean N. Raymond Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux, University of Bor-
deaux, CNRS, Bordeaux, France
Peter L. Read Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Clarendon Labora-
tory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Contributors xli
Patrick A. Young School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State Univer-
sity, Tempe, AZ, USA
Philippe Zarka LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, PSL, UPMC/SU, UPD,
Meudon, France
Station de Radioastronomie de Nançay, Observatoire de Paris, CNRS, PSL, Univ.
Orléans, Nançay, France
B. Zuckerman Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California,
Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Section I
Exoplanet Research: A History of Discovery
Tsevi Mazeh
Tsevi Mazeh is Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University, where he has served as
researcher and lecturer since 1979. In 1984, Mazeh initiated the first radial-velocity
search for extrasolar planets in pursuit of his hypothesis that massive planets could
exist close to their parent stars, at that time widely believed to be impossible.
The observations, carried out with David Latham (CfA) and in cooperation with
Michel Mayor (Geneva), provided the discovery in 1989 of the first known massive
candidate for an extrasolar planet – HD114762b. Since then he is devoting his career
to the study of binary stars and extrasolar planets.
The Discovery of the First Exoplanets
1
Davide Cenadelli and Andrea Bernagozzi
Contents
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Improvements in Doppler Measurements from the 1950s to the 1970s: The Pioneers . . . . . . . 6
The Case of HD 114762 b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The Case of ” Cep b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
The Discovery of 51 Peg b, 70 Vir b, and 47 UMa b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
51 Peg b Questioned and Finally Confirmed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Concluding Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Cross-References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Abstract
In this chapter, we will deal with the discovery of the first extrasolar planets
around normal stars. This discovery took place in the mid-1990s thanks to
the analysis of periodic Doppler shifts in stellar spectra and turned out to be
a landmark achievement, in that it established a new field of research that is
growing at full speed since then, and at the same time, it answered a question – do
other worlds exist in the cosmos? – that dates back to ancient times. This major
result was made possible by the impressive improvement in Doppler analysis
techniques during the second half of the twentieth century, until the precision
D. Cenadelli ()
Osservatorio Astronomico della Regione Autonoma Valle d’Aosta, Nus (Aosta), Italy
e-mail: davide.cenadelli@unimi.it
A. Bernagozzi
Scuola di Scienze e Tecnologia, Sezione di Geologia, UNICAMearth Working Group, Università
degli Studi di Camerino, Camerino, Italy
Osservatorio Astronomico della Regione Autonoma Valle d’Aosta, Nus (Aosta), Italy
e-mail: andrea.bernagozzi@gmail.com
Butterfly, O butterfly,
With gaily-jewelled wings,
You make me think of fairy folk
And of enchanted things.
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