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The Next Generation Transit Survey, which is led by CEH member Peter Wheatley, has publised its third planet discovery. NGTS-3Ab is in an unresolved binary system, and vetting the planet was a challenging task that produced new insights in BIS correlations in exoplanet observations.
This work was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 478, Issue 4, August 2018, Pages 4720–4737
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CEH members involved: James McCormac, David Armstrong, Benjamin Cooke, Boris G盲nsicke, Tom Louden, Don Pollacco & Peter Wheatley
CEH member George King has published an exciting study looking at the extreme UV environment of several exoplanets, including a detection of the transit of WASP-80b in the NUV using XMM Newton.
The study was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 478, Issue 1, July 2018, Pages 1193–1208
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CEH members involved: George King, Peter Wheatley & Tom Louden
A new study examining white dwarf pollution, and featuring contributions from CEH members Dimitri Veras and Boris G盲nsicke, concludes that if planet-planet scattering is responsible for the phenomenon then many such objects can be expected to host (currently undetectable) super-Earth planets on orbits of several au and beyond.
This work was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 476, Issue 3, p.3939-3955
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CEH members involved: Dimitri Veras & Boris G盲nsicke
A new study, involving CEH member Dimitri Veras, examines the implications fo newly discovered solar system interloper 'Oumuamua for hypotheses of planetary dynamics.
This work was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 476, Issue 3, p.3031-3038
CEH members involved: Dimitri Veras
The NGTS project, which is led by CEH member Peter Wheatley, has published its first exoplanet discovery!
This work was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 475, Issue 4, p.4467-4475
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CEH members involved: Daniel Bayliss (lead), James McCocrmac, David Armstrong, Emma Foxell, Boris G盲nsicke, James Jackman, Tom Louden, Don Pollacco, Richard West & Peter Wheatley