Category Archives: HPF Science

TOI-5205 b: A Forbidden Planet?

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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TOI-2136b: Habitable, but not to us?

Will Life on Other Planets Look Like Ours? Finding life somewhere other than Earth would be a truly monumental discovery, but will we know it when we see it? For as long as astronomers have been studying the stars, they … Continue reading

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Does it rain on vB 10?

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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