We have carried out a pilot study for the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array 2 (SCUBA-2) ‘All-Sky’ Survey (SASSy), a wide and shallow mapping project at...
A plague of magnetic spots among the hot stars of globular clusters
For more than six decades, the quest to understand the formation of hot (about 20,000-30,000 K) extreme horizontal branch (EHB) stars in Galactic globular...
A Planet in a 0.6 AU Orbit Around the K0 Giant HD 102272
We report the discovery of one or more planet-mass companions to the K0-giant HD 102272 with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. In the absence of any correlation of...
A planet within the debris disk around the pre-main-sequence star AU Microscopii
AU Microscopii (AU Mic) is the second closest pre-main-sequence star, at a distance of 9.79 parsecs and with an age of 22 million years 1. AU Mic possesses a...
A Planetary Microlensing Event with an Unusually Red Source Star: MOA-2011-BLG-291
We present the analysis of the planetary microlensing event MOA-2011-BLG-291, which has a mass ratio of q = (3.8 ± 0.7) × 10‑4 and a source star that is redder...
A Planetary Nebula around Nova V458 Vulpeculae Undergoing Flash Ionization
Nova V458 Vul erupted on 2007 August 8 and reached a visual magnitude of 8.1 a few days later. Hα images obtained 6 weeks before the outburst as part of the...
A planetary system with two transiting mini-Neptunes near the radius valley transition around the bright M dwarf TOI-776
We report the discovery and characterization of two transiting planets around the bright M1 V star LP 961-53 (TOI-776, J = 8.5 mag, M = 0.54 ± 0.03 M ☉)...
A Planetary-Mass Companion to the K0 Giant HD 17092
We report the discovery of a substellar-mass companion to the K0 giant HD 17092 with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope. In the absence of any correlation of the...
A planetesimal orbiting within the debris disc around a white dwarf star
Many white dwarf stars show signs of having accreted smaller bodies, implying that they may host planetary systems. A small number of these systems contain...