Refereed

Selection of recent publications

An effective temperature calibration for solar type stars using equivalent width ratios. A fast and easy spectroscopic temperature estimation - Sousa, S. G.; Alapini, A.; Israelian, G.; Santos, N. C. - A&A 2010

The secondary eclipse of CoRoT-1b - Alonso, R.; Alapini, A.; Aigrain, S. et al - A&A 2009

An iterative filter to reconstruct planetary transit signals in the presence of stellar variability - Alapini, A.; Aigrain, S. - MNRAS 2009

Full publication list

My full publication list can be found on ADS and astro-ph .

Ph.D. thesis

I did my PhD on the detection and characterisation of exoplanets at the University of Exeter under the supervision of Dr Suzanne Aigrain. My PhD thesis (2010), entitled ''Transiting exoplanets: characterisation in the presence of stellar activity'' can be downloaded as a full version (17Mb), or chapter by chapter:

Asbtract Table of content Declarations, Acknowledgments List of figures, List of tables Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Transit signal reconstruction (4Mb) Chapter 3 IRF applied to the transit of CoRoT planets (3Mb) Chapter 4 Detecting photons from the CoRoT planets (3Mb) Chapter 5 Stellar temperatures using equivalent width line-ratios (5Mb) Chapter 6 Joint modelling of transit and stellar temperature using an MCMC approach (2Mb) Chapter 7 Conclusions and prospects Constants and acronyms, Bibliography

Non-refereed

Talks

Detailed light curve analysis with CoRoT | Unsinkable planet workshop, Exeter, UK, 2009

Reconstruction of the transit signal in the presence of stellar variability | IAU249 Exoplanets detection, formation and dynamics, Suzhou, China, 2007

Posters

Probing the atmosphere of the hot Jupiter TrES-1b with HST | CPS 7th International School of Planetary Sciences, Kobe, Japan, 2011

Planetary transit reconstruction in the presence of stellar ativity | Towards Other Earths, Porto, Portugal, 2009

Improving CoRoT planets parameters with transit reconstruction in the presence of stellar activity | CoRoT Symposium, Paris, France, 2009

Precise relative temperature calibration of solar-type stars using equivalent width ratios of spectral lines | IAU249 Exoplanets detection, formation and dynamics, Suzhou, China, 2007

Scientific Reports

Calibration of effective temperature of solar type stars, using equivalent width ratios of spectral lines | IAC, Tenerife, Spain, 2006

Searching for planetary transit in the M50 open cluster | IoA, Cambridge, UK, 2005

The mass and hydrogen content of M31 | University of Manchester, UK, 2004

Etude de galaxies ultra-lumineuses dans l'infra-rouge et recherche de structures d'interaction | IAP, France, 2004

Outreach

Other planets in our Galaxy by Aude Alapini Postcards from the Edge of the Universe, ESO, 2009 ISBN: 978-3-923524-64-8 A pdf version of the book is available for free (29Mb) and the hard cover can be purchased online (€ 9.90).