Research

Some of my various research projects:

MINERVA: A partnership between Caltech, Penn State, and the University of Montana to find and characterize transiting and nearby rocky planets
exoplanets.org: A powerful tool to explore the orbits of the known exoplanets.
A WISE search for Kardashev civilizations.
RVLIN, an IDL package of routines for fitting Keplerian orbital curves to the radial velocity data from stars hosting multiplanet systems.
The hitherto unheralded Galactic cluster Ruprecht 147
Long period exoplanets and multiplanet systems orbiting nearby stars with the California Planet Survey consortium and the Hobby Eberly Telescope
The Habitable Zone Planet Finding spectrograph (HPF) at the Hobby-Eberly Telescope
The CHIRON planet search
The planet-star activity connection
Planets around hot subdwarfs

Linkedy Links: In the spirit of Steinn Sigurðsson's periodic "Linkedy Links" posts on his blog, I present my own roundup (most courtesy…; By Jason T Wright | Comments (0)
What the IAU should have written: Here is a marked-up version of the press release whose text I would have not objected to (except that I…; By Jason T Wright | Comments (1)
Some Points Of Clarification: A few points of clarification about my earlier post, in response to the large volume of responses I received:"The IAU…; By Jason T Wright | Comments (2)