Category Archives: HPF Science

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

Posted on September 15, 2022 by Paul M Robertson

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?

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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A Search for Planetary Helium Absorption in the V1298 Tau System

Posted on August 13, 2021 by Gudmundur Kari Stefansson

Introduction Understanding how planets form and evolve is one of the fundamental topics of research in exoplanet science. How do planets and their atmospheres form? What are their atmospheres composed of, and how do they evolve with time? The current … Continue reading →

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