CEH member George King has published an exciting study looking at the extreme UV environment of several exoplanets, including a detection of the transit of WASP-80b in the NUV using XMM Newton.

The study was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 478, Issue 1, July 2018, Pages 1193–1208

Open access link: arXiv

CEH members involved: George King, Peter Wheatley & Tom Louden

A new study examining white dwarf pollution, and featuring contributions from CEH members Dimitri Veras and Boris Gänsicke, concludes that if planet-planet scattering is responsible for the phenomenon then many such objects can be expected to host (currently undetectable) super-Earth planets on orbits of several au and beyond.

This work was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 476, Issue 3, p.3939-3955

Open access link: arXiv

CEH members involved: Dimitri Veras & Boris Gänsicke

A new study, involving CEH member Dimitri Veras, examines the implications fo newly discovered solar system interloper 'Oumuamua for hypotheses of planetary dynamics.

This work was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 476, Issue 3, p.3031-3038

CEH members involved: Dimitri Veras

CEH member Peter Wheatley, PI of the NGTS transiting exoplanet survey, has published a paper describing the project.

This work was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 475, Issue 4, p.4476-4493

CEH members involved: Peter Wheatley (lead), Richard West, Don Pollacco, James McCormac, David Armstrong, Emma Foxell, Boris Gänsicke, James Jackman & Tom Louden