news archive
03/01/2012 - HEK: 1. Description of a New Observational Project submitted to ApJ [arXiv e-print]
01/01/2012 - The Hunt for Exomoons with Kepler (HEK) project is launched! [HEK website]
10/12/2011 - Multiibody Asterodensity Profiling (MAP) accepted in MNRAS [arXiv e-print]
24/10/2011 - Multiibody Asterodensity Profiling (MAP) submitted to MNRAS [arXiv e-print]
09/09/2011 - A new YouTube channel with videos relating to my research is now available [YouTube Channel]
18/08/2011 - Television interview with NBC Bay Area News [YouTube]
18/08/2011 - My book, The Transits of Extrasolar Planets with Moons, is now available in numerous book shops [Amazon USA] [Amazon UK] [Foyles UK]
27/07/2011 - Detection of visible light from the darkest world accepted in MNRAS Letters [press release] [arXiv e-print]
02/07/2011 - HAT-P-31b,c: A Transiting, Eccentric, Hot-Jupiter and a Long-Period, Massive Third-Body accepted in AJ [arXiv e-print]
16/05/2011 - LUNA: an algorithm for generating dynamic planet-moon transits accepted in MNRAS [arXiv e-print]
29/03/2011 - New Carl Sagan Fellows announced [press release] [details]
14/03/2011 - Passed my PhD viva with no corrections [arXiv e-print]
09/03/2010 - Analysis of Kepler’s short-cadence photometry for TrES-2b accepted in ApJ [arXiv e-print] [see lightcurve] [see this page for more]
07/02/2011 - Submitted my PhD thesis [arXiv e-print]
14/01/2011 - Independent Analysis of Kepler-4b-7b accepted in ApJ [arXiv e-print]
11/10/2010 - HAT-P-24b: An inflated hot-Jupiter on a 3.36d period transiting a hot, metal-poor star accepted in ApJ [arXiv e-print]
14/10/2010 - How to weigh a star using a moon published in MNRAS Letters EarlyOnline [arXiv e-print]
12/10/2010 - HAT-P-24b: An inflated hot-Jupiter on a 3.36d period transiting a hot, metal-poor star accepted in ApJ [arXiv e-print]
29/06/2010 - Analysis of Kepler’s short-cadence photometry for TrES-2b submitted to ApJ [arXiv e-print] [see lightcurve] [see this page for more]
23/06/2010 - Binning is Sinning accepted for publication in MNRAS [arVix e-print]
26/05/2010 - Nightside Pollution of Exoplanet Transit Depths accepted for publication in MNRAS [arXiv e-print]
26/04/2010 - Interview with German Public Radio/DLF on extrasolar moons: [mp3] (English)
22/04/2010 - New paper accepted into MNRAS: Investigations of approximate expressions for the transit duration [arXiv e-print]
21/04/2010 - New paper submitted: Independent Analysis of Kepler-4b Through Kepler-8b [arVix e-print]
20/04/2010 - New paper submitted: Binning is Sinning; Morphological Lightcurve Distortions due to Finite Integration Time [arVix e-print]
24/12/2009 - Interview with Sky at Night Magazine on The Science of Avatar [mp3]
06/12/2009 - New paper submitted: Nightside Pollution of Exoplanet Transit Depths [arXiv e-print]
02/12/2009 - New paper available: Pathways Towards Habitable Moons
04/09/2009 - Updated many parts of website
01/09/2009 - Begun predoctoral fellowship at the CfA, Cambridge, MA.
15/09/2009 - Oral presentation at Pathways Conference, Barcelona
09/08/2009 - Cover article for Australian Sky & Telescope now in print [cover]
31/07/2009 - Detectability of Habitable Exomoons has been accepted for publication in MNRAS [arXiv e-print]
30/07/2009 - Feature article for Le Stelle now in print [cover]
01/06/2009 - Feature article for Sky & Telescope now in print [cover]
28/05/2009 - Awarded the Valerie Myerscough Prize for Astronomy, Mathematics and Physics 2009
11/05/2009 - Awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship at the
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) at Harvard University.
29/04/2009 - Reported in BBC news, click here
3/04/2009 - Transit timing effects due to an exomoon II has been accepted for publication in MNRAS [arXiv e-print]
26/02/2009 - Discovery of the first transit of HD80606b by Fossey, Waldmann and Kipping: more info;
12/01/2009 - Reported in Nature news, click here
09/01/2009 - Submitted new paper to MNRAS entitled Transit timing effects due to an exomoon II [arXiv e-print]
23/12/2008 - Interview with British Satellite News broadcasted, click here or download the movie: [Quicktime Movie]
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