Searching for planetary transits around M dwarfs with telescope networks
As of today, hundreds of extrasolar planets have been discoverd, and thousands of candidates are waiting for confirmation. Although we already have discovered...
Searching for Planetary Transits in the Lupus Galactic Plane
A 52' × 52' field in the Lupus Galactic plane was observed with the ANU 1m telescope for 53 nights during 2005 and 2006 in a search for transiting Hot Jupiter...
We surveyed a small sample of metal-rich solar-like stars in our planet search program during the last 3 years. Here we present the detection of a brown dwarf...
Cygnus OB2 is a rich and relatively close (d~1.4 kpc) OB association in our Galaxy. It represents an ideal testbed for our theories about self-enrichment...
Searching for the Alpha-Abundance Bimodality in the M31 Disk
The recent era of large, ground-based abundance surveys has unraveled the chemical structures of our Milky Way galaxy. The most striking abundance feature is...