by Eric Ford | Dec 13, 2023 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, News, Press Coverage, Publications, Research, Star & Planet Formation
CEHW Professor Kevin Luhman led a study identifying the new record-holder for the smallest object that forms like a star: a tiny, free-floating brown dwarf with only three to four times the mass of Jupiter. NASA Press Release Penn State Press Release Paper the...
by Arvind Gupta | May 25, 2021 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, News, Press Coverage, Publications, Research
Introduction One of the signature targets of HPF’s search for nearby exoplanets is Barnard’s star, the second-closest star system to our own Solar system. Barnard’s star made the news in late 2018, when the CARMENES team announced the discovery of a...
by Arvind Gupta | Mar 9, 2021 | Planet-forming & Debris Disks, Publications, Research, Star & Planet Formation
Simulating the formation of super-Earths around M dwarfs A recent study accepted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society explores the formation of super-Earth planets around M dwarf stars. CEHW graduate student Brianna Zawadzki, former...
by Arvind Gupta | Feb 12, 2021 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Publications, Research, Star Properties
The NEID Earth Twin Survey The NEID spectrograph, designed and built by a team led by CEHW Professor Suvrath Mahadevan, was installed at Kitt Peak National Observatory in late 2019 and will soon be fully commissioned for science observations. Over the next few years,...
by Eric Ford | Dec 1, 2020 | Exoplanet & Brown Dwarf Surveys, Featured, News, Publications, Star & Planet Formation, Statistical Methodology & Data Analysis
Statistical model may help unravel the mystery of apparently single-planet systems and aid exoplanet-seeking missions Data from the Kepler space telescope, launched more than a decade ago, is still helping astronomers who study planets outside of our own solar system...
by Arvind Gupta | Nov 13, 2020 | Featured, Life Beyond Earth & Astrobiology, News, Publications, Research
A recent study accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal proposes a new strategy for searching for biosignatures, chemical evidence of the presence of life on exoplanets. CEHW graduate student Noah Tuchow and professor Jason Wright have developed a...
