Jun 29, 20122 minElectronic PosterI wanted to share you the poster I’ve just submitted for the Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop. It’s a yearly workshop hosted by the NASA...
Jun 21, 20122 minProof is in the PuddingHi, I wanted to give a brief update on the short period planets paper that just recently got accepted to Astrophysical Journal. Once...
Jun 19, 20122 minFamiliar candidate appears elsewhere…A recent paper announcing 16 new candidates from Kepler data by Princeton astronomers Xu Huang, Gaspar Bakos and Joel Hartman has got...
Jun 8, 20126 minTurning a planet candidate into a bona fide planetToday we have a guest post by Tom Barclay, Tom is a member of the Kepler team and also a collaborator and co-author on our second Planet...
Jun 6, 20124 minCloser to HomeAs I write this blog post, the transit of Venus is ongoing, with Venus finishing its slow march across the face of the Sun in less than...
May 30, 20125 minAssessing the Kepler Inventory of Short Period PlanetsYou might remember that I’ve been working on a systematic search of the Q1 light curves to examine the frequencies of large planets (> 2...
May 28, 20127 minThe Transit of Venus and the Scale of the UniverseI’ll start by introducing myself as I’m not involved in Planethunters, but Meg asked me if I could write an article for you here about...