Author Archives: Shubham Kanodia

TOI-5205 b: A Forbidden Planet?

Posted on February 20, 2023 by Shubham Kanodia

The Discovery For the past four years alongside the HPF survey to discover new exoplanets, we have also been using HPF to follow-up on planet candidates discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. The TESS survey is observing … Continue reading →

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Does it rain on vB 10?

Posted on November 25, 2021 by Shubham Kanodia

The primary science goal of HPF is to find planets around mid-to-late M dwarfs using the radial velocity method. The largest of these are about a third the size of the Sun, and about 2/3rd as hot (~ 3000 K … Continue reading →

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Scrambling the pupil of the Hobby Eberly Telescope

Posted on June 24, 2021 by Shubham Kanodia

Detection of small Earth like planets in the habitable-zones (HZ) of M dwarfs requires precise radial velocity measurements (RV) at the meter-per-second level. These extremely precise measurements are really hard! As the schematic below illustrates, they necessitate each step in … Continue reading →

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