The Singles’ Club
Many exoplanets in our galaxy are all alone. They have no one to cuddle up to on those cold, lonely nights in space…
Planet Formation on a Budget
There does not seem to be enough mass in protoplanetary disks to build the planetary systems we’ve detected. The solution: planet formation might start sooner than previously thought.
Astro Data Hack Week
This wasn’t a week of watching; it was a week of doing.
Hide and Seek Planets
Is CoRoT-7d real, or is it stellar activity masquerading as a planet? Haywood et al. build a noise model to analyze CoRoT-7’s activity to find out.
Beyond Chi-Squared: An Introduction to Correlated Noise
A common measure of the quality of a fit is the chi-squared statistic. While common, implementation of this statistic assumes uncorrelated noise, which is much less common. Today, we discuss how to deal with noise that is correlated and why it’s important.
A Planet for Every M Dwarf Star?
A recent result on the commonality of exoplanets has made headlines, but has it for the right reasons?