Exomoon research

• by ajamyajax

  Congrats on a new paper with work from our PH friend Al Schmitt (author of LcTools software):

  "THE HUNT FOR EXOMOONS WITH KEPLER (HEK): V. A SURVEY OF 41 PLANETARY CANDIDATES FOR EXOMOONS"

  D. M. Kipping1,2, A. R. Schmitt3, X. Huang4, G. Torres1, D. Nesvorny5, L. A. Buchhave1,6, J. Hartman4, G. A. Bakos4,7,8

  http://arxiv.org/pdf/1503.05555v1.pdf

  More here:

  https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/HEK/

  Posted March 20, 2015 5:19 PM

• by ajamyajax

  "Possible first sighting of an exomoon"

  by Bob Yirka

  https://phys.org/news/2017-07-sighting-exomoon.html

  "HEK VI: On the Dearth of Galilean Analogs in Kepler and the Exomoon Candidate Kepler-1625b I"

  Alex Teachey, David M. Kipping, Allan R. Schmitt

  https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.08563

  Posted July 28, 2017 3:04 PM

• by ajamyajax

  "Signal may be from first 'exomoon'"

  By Paul Rincon, Science editor, BBC News website

  http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40741545

  Posted July 28, 2017 4:28 PM