Introduction: Discovering Exoplanets with Gaia Gaia is a spacecraft dedicated to making ultra-precise measurements of the positions and on-sky motions of billions of stars. The technical name for …| The Habitable Zone Planet Finder
A video showing the extreme orbit of TIC 241249530b. As the planet makes its closest approach to the star, it becomes brighter due to the increase in incident stellar radiation. Video credit: Abi…| The Habitable Zone Planet Finder
Artist’s rendering of the Neptune-mass exoplanet orbiting the very low-mass star LHS 3154. Video Credit: Abigail Minnich Introduction As the name implies, the Habitable-zone Planet Finder wa…| The Habitable Zone Planet Finder
By Luke Powers The planet now known as TOI-3785 b was observed in 2019 by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). TESS observed periodic dips in the star’s brightness (known as a transit)…| The Habitable Zone Planet Finder
Introduction: the HET/HRS M dwarf Survey HPF is the latest and greatest in Doppler searches for exoplanets orbiting the Galaxy’s smallest stars, but it is certainly not the first, even at Tex…| The Habitable Zone Planet Finder
The TESS Mission For the past five years, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has surveyed the sky searching for new planets orbiting our closest stellar companions. To accomplish t…| The Habitable Zone Planet Finder
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 Su…| The Habitable Zone Planet Finder
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 st…| The Habitable Zone Planet Finder
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 (…| The Habitable Zone Planet Finder
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 compo…| The Habitable Zone Planet Finder
Detection of small Earth like planets in the habitable-zones (HZ) of M dwarfs requires precise radial velocity measurements (RV) at the meter-per-second level. These extremely precise measurements …| The Habitable Zone Planet Finder
