Adventures in Astrostatistics: Astrobites at SAMSI (Part 1/2)
A recap of the “Modern Statistical and Computational Methods for Analysis of Kepler Data” workshop in North Carolina, featuring both astronomers and statisticians!
What’s Next For Kepler?
NASA is looking for a new mission for the damaged Kepler space telescope. Here are some ideas.
Jets in a post-AGB envelope
The authors present the first direct evidence of a jet shaping the circumstellar envelope of a post-AGB star.
Kepler’s view on the gravity of stars
A study of Kepler data reveals a correlation between brightness fluctuations and surface gravity of stars.
Lowest mass exoplanet discovered via direct imaging
The newly discovered planet, HD 65086 b, is the lowest mass planet to be directly imaged.
How to Confirm a (Tiny) Exoplanet Candidate
Barclay et al. find a “candidate” planet smaller than Mercury in the Kepler data…will it pass their tests and be confirmed as the smallest known planet?