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Interstellar Object ’Oumuamua as an Extinct Fragment of an Ejected Cometary Planetesimal
CEH member Dimitri Veras was part of a team investigating the possibility that 'Oumuamua might have been part of a comet.
This work was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 856, Number 1
Open access link: arXiv
CEH members involved: Dimitri Veras
Qatar Exoplanet Survey: Qatar-6b—A Grazing Transiting Hot Jupiter
Members of the CEH contributed to the discovery of the Qatar Exoplanet Survey's 6th exoplanet.
This work was published in The Astronomical Journal, Volume 155, Number 2
Open access link: arXiv
CEH members involved: James McCorcmac & Richard West
The critical binary star separation for a planetary system origin of white dwarf pollution
CEH member Dimitri Veras lead this interesting study on pollution of white dwarf atmospheres by giant planets.
This work was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 473, Issue 3, January 2018, Pages 2871–2880
Open access link: arXiv
CEH members involved: Dimitri Veras
The First Post-Kepler Brightness Dips of KIC 8462852
CEH member James McCormac coordinated the efforts of a team of astronomers from the CEH as they contributed to observations of the unique variable star KIC 8462852.
This paper was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 853, Issue 1, article id. L8
Open access link: arXiv
CEH members involved: James McCormac, David Armstrong, David Brown, John Dolan, Emma Foxell, Kristine Lam, Hugh Osborn & Don Pollacco
Panspermia's a Winner at Posters in Parliament
CEH member James Blake won the award for Best Poster at the 2018 Posters in Parliament competition, hosted by the University of Sheffield. Over 50 students were selected from institutions across the UK and tasked with presenting undergraduate research. James' research on lithopanspermia, the theory that life can hop from place to place throughout the Universe aboard asteroids and comets, managed to capture the judges' imagination.
Poster available here