The Monitor project: Rotation periods of low-mass stars in M50 (2008)
Irwin, Jonathan, Aigrain, Suzanne, Bouvier, Jerome, Hebb, Leslie, Hodgkin, Simon, Irwin, Mike, ...
We report on the results of a time-series photometric survey of M50 (NGC 2323), a ~130 Myr open cluster, carried out using the CTIO 4m Blanco telescope and Mosaic-II detector as part of the Monitor...
BD-22 5866: A Low-mass Quadruple-lined Spectroscopic AND Eclipsing Binary (2008)
Shkolnik, Evgenya, Liu, Michael C., Reid, I. Neill, Hebb, Leslie, Cameron, Andrew C., Torres, Carlos A., ...
We report our discovery of an extremely rare, low mass, quadruple-lined spectroscopic binary BD-22 5866 (=NLTT 53279, integrated spectral type = M0 V), found during an ongoing search for the youngest...
The Monitor project: the search for transits in the open cluster NGC 2362 (2008)
Miller, Adam A., Irwin, Jonathan, Aigrain, Suzanne, Hodgkin, Simon, Hebb, Leslie
We present the results of a systematic search for transiting planets in a ~5 Myr open cluster, NGC 2362. We observed ~1200 candidate cluster members, of which ~475 are believed to be genuine cluster...
Irwin, Jonathan, Hodgkin, Simon, Aigrain, Suzanne, Bouvier, Jerome, Hebb, Leslie, Irwin, Mike, ...
We report on the results of a time-series photometric survey of NGC 2362, carried out using the CTIO 4m Blanco telescope and Mosaic-II detector as part of the Monitor project. Rotation periods were...
The Monitor project: tracking the evolution of low mass and pre-main sequence stars (2007)
Aigrain, Suzanne, Irwin, Jonathan, Hebb, Leslie, Hodgkin, Simon, Miller, Adam, Moraux, Estelle, ...
The Monitor project is a large-scale program of photometric and spectroscopic monitoring of young open clusters using telescopes at ESO and other observatories. Its primary goal is to detect and...
The Monitor project: Rotation of low-mass stars in the open cluster NGC 2547 (2007)
Irwin, Jonathan, Hodgkin, Simon, Aigrain, Suzanne, Bouvier, Jerome, Hebb, Leslie, Moraux, Estelle
We report on the results of an I-band time-series photometric survey of NGC 2547 using the MPG/ESO 2.2m telescope with WFI, achieving better than 1% photometric precision per data point over 14
A search for planets transiting the M-dwarf debris disc host, AU Microscopii (2007)
Hebb, Leslie, Petro, Larry, Ford, Holland C., Ardila, David R., Toledo, Ignacio, Minniti, Dante, ...
We present high-cadence, high-precision multiband photometry of the young, M1Ve, debris disc star, AU Microscopii. The data were obtained in three continuum filters spanning a wavelength range from...
Irwin, Jonathan, Aigrain, Suzanne, Hodgkin, Simon, Stassun, Keivan G., Hebb, Leslie, Irwin, Mike, ...
We report the discovery of a low-mass (0.26 +/- 0.02, 0.15 +/- 0.01 Msol) pre-main-sequence eclipsing binary with a 5.3 day orbital period. JW 380 was detected as part of a high-cadence time-resolved...
A Search for Planets Transiting the M Dwarf Debris Disk Host, AU Microscopii (2007)
Hebb, Leslie, Petro, Larry, Ford, Holland C., Ardila, David R., Toledo, Ignacio, Minniti, Dante, ...
We present high cadence, high precision multi-band photometry of the young, M1Ve, debris disk star, AU Microscopii. The data were obtained in three continuum filters spanning a wavelength range from...
The Monitor project: Rotation of low-mass stars in the open cluster NGC 2516 (2007)
Irwin, Jonathan, Hodgkin, Simon, Aigrain, Suzanne, Hebb, Leslie, Bouvier, Jerome, Clarke, Cathie, ...
We report on the results of an i-band time-series photometric survey of NGC 2516 using the CTIO 4m Blanco telescope and 8k Mosaic-II detector, achieving better than 1% photometric precision per data...
The Monitor project: Data processing and lightcurve production (2006)
Irwin, Jonathan, Irwin, Mike, Aigrain, Suzanne, Hodgkin, Simon, Hebb, Leslie, Moraux, Estelle
We have begun a large-scale photometric survey of nearby open clusters and star-forming regions, the Monitor project, aiming to measure time-series photometry for >10,000 cluster members over >10...
The Monitor project: Searching for occultations in young open clusters (2006)
Aigrain, Suzanne, Hodgkin, Simon, Irwin, Jonathan, Hebb, Leslie, Irwin, Mike, Favata, Fabio, ...
The Monitor project is a photometric monitoring survey of nine young (1-200Myr) clusters in the solar neighbourhood to search for eclipses by very low mass stars and brown dwarfs and for planetary...
The Monitor project: Rotation of low-mass stars in the open cluster M34 (2006)
Irwin, Jonathan, Aigrain, Suzanne, Hodgkin, Simon, Irwin, Mike, Bouvier, Jerome, Clarke, Cathie, ...
We report on the results of a V and i-band time-series photometric survey of M34 (NGC 1039) using the Wide Field Camera (WFC) on the Isaac Newton Telescope (INT), achieving better than 1% precision...
Photometric Monitoring of Open Clusters I. The Survey (2004)
Hebb, Leslie, Wyse, Rosemary F. G., Gilmore, Gerard
Open clusters, which have age, abundance, and extinction information from studies of main-sequence turn off stars, are the ideal location in which to determine the mass-luminosity-radius relation for...
Wyse, Rosemary F. G., Gilmore, Gerard, Houdashelt, Mark L., Feltzing, Sofia, Hebb, Leslie, Gallagher III, John S., ...
The stellar initial mass function at high redshift is an important defining property of the first stellar systems to form and may also play a role in various dark matter problems. We here determine...