by apai | Jan 27, 2016 | EOS Blog
By Kevin Wagner Searching for planets outside of our own solar system is one of the great challenges in modern astronomy. The problem consists of measuring the brightness of a planet that is more than a million times fainter than its host star, while being so close to...
by apai | Jan 18, 2016 | EOS Blog
We, Min Fang and Ben Rackham, are on a five-night observing run at the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope (VATT), where we are collecting spectra of young stars. This post gives some of the highlights of our trip so far. The VATT is located in southeastern Arizona...
by admins | Dec 8, 2015 | News
Preferred Hosts for Short-Period Exoplanets In an effort to learn more about how planets form around their host stars, a team of scientists has analyzed the population of Kepler-discovered exoplanet candidates, looking for trends in where they’re found. Since its...
by apai | Oct 9, 2015 | News
Link to the UA Press Release on the discovery
by apai | May 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
A blog entry on the kick-off meeting of the new NExSS program at NASA HQ by PI Daniel Apai: http://distantearths.com/nexss-kick-off/
by apai | Apr 25, 2015 | News
Article appeared in the Arizona Daily Star: http://tinyurl.com/nteh6h4 April 22, 2015 7:29 pm • By Tom Beal “I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade, and I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20 to 30...
by apai | Apr 25, 2015 | Uncategorized
NASA’s NExSS Coalition to Lead Search for Life on Distant Worlds NASA is bringing together experts spanning a variety of scientific fields for an unprecedented initiative dedicated to the search for life on planets outside our solar system. The Nexus for Exoplanet...
by apai | Mar 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
EOS team investigators Fred Ciesla, Ilaria Pascucci, and Daniel Apai publish a paper on the delivery of volatiles to low-mass planets orbiting red dwarf stars. The team finds that including more realistic starting conditions (a larger number of planetesimals and...
by apai | Mar 3, 2015 | News
Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on the chemical evolution of protoplanetary disks and primitive materials at the University of Chicago. The successful applicant will work directly with Professor Fred Ciesla and in collaboration with...
by apai | Feb 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to take the most detailed picture to date of a large, edge-on, gas-and-dust disk encircling the 20-million-year-old star Beta Pictoris. Beta Pictoris remains the only directly imaged debris disk that has a...
