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scenario one
Without regard to order of likelihood, I thought it’d be interesting to lay out a few very specific scenarios by which the first extrasolar world with a 1 million+ habitability valuation could be...
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Ups and Downs and Ups And
Visitors to oklo.org may have noticed that the site was down for most of Sunday. I’d been neglecting to update my WordPress installation, which lead to a problem with the database, and a huge load...
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campaign mode
Full-resolution Poster-sized .pdf of the above. The next HD 80606 transit is coming up this week. While the sky position of the star will be much more favorable during the coming January event,...
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It’s 5 pm somewhere
Grant-proposal season puts a crimp on one’s style. Despite many interesting developments in the field over the past few weeks, I haven’t had time to write. I’m glad that’ll change shortly. We’re also...
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Arrived: ETD
A recent e-mail from Bruce Gary prompted me to pay a return visit the Exoplanet Transit Database (ETD) which is maintained by the variable star and exoplanet section of the Czech Astronomical Society....
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Transitsearch back on the air
A quick addendum to the previous post. After a rather lengthy and undeserved “vacation”, Transitsearch.org is back on the air. The old website is running as a placeholder, and updated content will...
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that golden age
I’m nostalgic for ’97, when the discovery of a new extrasolar planet was literally front-page news. What’s now cliche was then fully viable poetic sweep. Epicurus and his multitude of worlds. Bruno...
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parallel observing
As the decade draws to a close, it’s hard not to be amazed at the progress that’s been made on every research front related to extrasolar planets. An area that I think is now ripe for progress...
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in eclipse
It’s 4pm Wednesday Jan 13th here in Santa Cruz, and the HD 80606b transit has been underway for a few hours. A whole slew of observers worldwide are watching the event, with Northern Europe getting...
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This just in…
With HAT-P-13c rapidly coming ’round the mountain, there was a very timely update on astro-ph last night. Josh Winn and his collaborators have obtained an additional slew of radial velocities which...
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