Phone
226 089 853

Email
Susana.Barros@astro.up.pt

ORCID
0000-0003-2434-3625

Biographic Notes
Susana Barros is a researcher at IA. She was awarded a first degree in PHYSICS/ASTRONOMY by the University of Porto in 2003 and a PhD by the University of Warwick in 2008. She is a member of IA since 2015.

Current research interests focus on the discovery and characterisation of planetary systems. In particular she participated in many ground based and spaced based transit surveys: WASP, CoRoT, Kepler and K2 and contributed to the discovery and characterisation of tens of exoplanets. She is also involved in future missions for transit search and characterisation like CHEOPS, PLATO and ARIEL and high resolution spectrographs ESPRESSO and NIRPS. Combining the high precision light curves obtained with the space mission with the radial velocities measure with the spectrographs will allow to characterise planets down to the earth size up to the habitable zone of their stars.

She has contributed for the COROT imagette pipeline and she has developed a pipeline to reduce and correct systematics in the light curves from the K2 satellite. She also developed a Bayesian transit fitting code to derive transit parameters, in particular transit times that can be used to study the dynamics of planetary systems.

Publications
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Lastest publications at IA (or with IA Researchers)F. Lienhard, A. Mortier, A. C. Cameron, M. Cretignier, L. Borsato, A. A. John, J. A. Egger, M. Stalport, T. G. Wilson, A. Deline et al. (including: S. G. Sousa, S. C. C. Barros, A. Brandeker, O. D. S. Demangeon, G. Olofsson, N. C. Santos), 2026,
HARPS-N, TESS, and CHEOPS discover a transiting sub-Neptune and two outer companions around the bright solar analogue HD 85426,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 545
>> AbstractY. Eschen, T. G. Wilson, A. Bonfanti, C. M. Persson, S. G. Sousa, M. Lendl, A. Heitzmann, A. E. Simon, G. Olofsson, A. Castro-González et al. (including: S. C. C. Barros, A. C. M. Correia, O. D. S. Demangeon, N. C. Santos), 2025,
An ultra-short period super-Earth and sub-Neptune spanning the Radius Valley orbiting the kinematic thick disc star TOI-2345,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 544
>> AbstractR. Luque, K. W. F. Lam, J. Cabrera, A. Bonfanti, Y. Eschen, G. Olofsson, W. Benz, N. Billot, A. Brandeker, A. C. M. Correia et al. (including: S. G. Sousa, S. C. C. Barros, O. D. S. Demangeon, N. C. Santos), 2025,
Improved characterization of the TOI-2141 system: A dense sub-Neptune with non-transiting inner and outer companions,
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 704, 16
>> AbstractV. Vaulato, M. J. Hobson, R. Allart, S. Pelletier, J. P. Wardenier, H. Chakraborty, D. Ehrenreich, N. Nari, M. Steiner, X. Dumusque et al. (including: S. C. C. Barros, E. Delgado-Mena, N. C. Santos, K. Al Moulla, A. R. Costa Silva, E. A. S. Cristo), 2025,
Atmospheric composition and circulation of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b with joint NIRPS, HARPS and CRIRES+ transit spectroscopy,
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 703, 18
>> AbstractP. Leonardi, L. Borsato, L. Pagliaro, D. Kubyshkina, J. A. Egger, T. G. Wilson, A. Heitzmann, A. Brandeker, M. N. Günther, V. Nascimbeni et al. (including: S. G. Sousa, V. Zh. Adibekyan, S. C. C. Barros, O. Demangeon, N. C. Santos), 2025,
Transit timing variations in HIP 41378: CHEOPS and TESS confirm a non-transiting sixth planet in the system,
Acta Applicandae Mathematicae, 702, 22
>> AbstractM. J. Hobson, A. Suárez Mascareño, C. Lovis, F. Bouchy, B. Lavie, M. Cretignier, A. M. Silva, S. G. Sousa, H. M. Tabernero, V. Zh. Adibekyan et al. (including: S. C. C. Barros, P. Figueira, C. J. A. P. Martins, N. J. Nunes, J. Rodrigues, N. C. Santos), 2025,
TOI-2322: Two transiting rocky planets close to the stellar rotation period and its first harmonic,
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 702, 20
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