Category Archives: Exoplanet Science

HPF discovers a Jupiter transiting the cool star TOI-1899

Posted on September 15, 2020 by Caleb I. Cañas

HPF has confirmed the planetary nature of a single-transiting Jupiter-sized planet (1.15 Jupiter radii) orbiting a nearby low mass M dwarf star on an orbital period of ~29 days. The paper has been published in the Astronomical Journal and is available on … Continue reading →

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HPF discovers a warm super Neptune – TOI-1728b

Posted on July 2, 2020 by Shubham Kanodia

The Discovery A component of HPF’s on-sky time is used to follow up on potential planets discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), launched in 2018. TESS is nominally a 2-year mission designed to conduct an all-sky survey to … Continue reading →

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Eternal spotshine of the spinning red suns

Posted on May 21, 2020 by Paul M Robertson

Introduction Much of our time on sky with HPF is dedicated to discovering exoplanets, and measuring their detailed properties.  To do this, we concentrate our efforts on older, magnetically quiet stars to minimize noise and make the planets easier to … Continue reading →

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