Using observations from home to improve the transit method
Most exoplanets are and have been detected by the transit method. Maybe, we can improve the method even further by drawing conclusions from the recent Venus transits in 2004 and 2012.
MINERVA: MINiature Exoplanet Radial Velocity Array
MINERVA: Detecting Super-Earths from the ground in a modular, cost-effective manner.
More Bang for your Buck: Getting the Most out of Your Transit Light Curves
The Kepler Mission has measured planet radii and orbital periods for 3,000+ light curves. So what is next? Either we convince the continental USA to become amateur astronomers… Or we figure out ways to retrieve more planetary parameters from the Kepler data set. I’ll stick with the later. And so will the authors or this paper.
Most 1.6 Earth-radius planets are not rocky
Artist’s impressions of exoplanets are often wrong!
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.
Nine Earth-like planets
There are nine Earth-like planets detectable in the Kepler data set… better get searching!