Von Braun, Kaspar, Kane, Stephen R.
Long-period transiting exoplanets provide an opportunity to study the mass-radius relation and internal structure of extrasolar planets. Their studies grant insights into planetary evolution akin to...
Exoplanetary Transit Constraints Based upon Secondary Eclipse Observations (2009)
Kane , Stephen R., Von Braun, Kaspar
Transiting extrasolar planets provide an opportunity to study the mass-radius relation of planets as well as their internal structure. The existence of a secondary eclipse enables further study of...
Refining Exoplanet Ephemerides and Transit Observing Strategies (2009)
Kane, Stephen R., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Von Braun, Kaspar, Laughlin, Gregory, Ciardi, David R.
Transiting planet discoveries have yielded a plethora of information regarding the internal structure and atmospheres of extra-solar planets. These discoveries have been restricted to the...
Observational Window Functions in Planet Transit Surveys (2009)
Von Braun, Kaspar, Kane, Stephen R., Ciardi, David R.
The probability that an existing planetary transit is detectable in one's data is sensitively dependent upon the window function of the observations. We quantitatively characterize and provide...
Exoplanetary Transit Constraints Based Upon Secondary Eclipse Observations (2009)
Kane, Stephen R., Von Braun, Kaspar
Transiting extrasolar planets provide an opportunity to study the mass-radius relation of planets as well as their internal structure. The existence of a secondary eclipse enables further study of...
Observational Window Functions in Planet Transit Surveys (2009)
Von Braun, Kaspar, Kane, Stephen R., Ciardi, David R.
The probability that an existing planetary transit is detectable in one's data is sensitively dependent upon the window function of the observations. We quantitatively characterize and provide...
Discovery of a low-mass companion to the solar-type star TYC 2534-698-1 (2009)
Kane, Stephen R., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Cochran, William D., Street, Rachel A., Sivarani, Thirupathi, Henry, Gregory W., ...
Brown dwarfs and low-mass stellar companions are interesting objects to study since they occupy the mass region between deuterium and hydrogen burning. We report here the serendipitous discovery of a...
Constraining orbital parameters through planetary transit monitoring (2008)
Kane, Stephen R., Von Braun, Kaspar
The orbital parameters of extrasolar planets have a significant impact on the probability that the planet will transit the host star. This was recently demonstrated by the transit detection of HD...
Discovery of a Low-Mass Companion to the Solar-Type Star TYC 2534-698-1 (2008)
Kane, Stephen R., Mahadevan, Suvrath, Cochran, William D., Street, Rachel A., Thirupathi, Sivarani, Henry, Gregory W., ...
Brown dwarfs and low-mass stellar companions are interesting objects to study since they occupy the mass region between deuterium and hydrogen burning. We report here the serendipitous discovery of a...
Constraining Orbital Parameters Through Planetary Transit Monitoring (2008)
Kane, Stephen R., Von Braun, Kaspar
The orbital parameters of extra-solar planets have a significant impact on the probability that the planet will transit the host star. This was recently demonstrated by the transit detection of HD...
Transit Detection of Radial Velocity Planets (2008)
Kane, Stephen R., Von Braun, Kaspar
The orbital parameters of extra-solar planets have a significant impact on the probability that the planet will transit the host star. This was recently demonstrated by the transit detection of HD...
Cadence Optimisation and Exoplanetary Parameter Sensitivity (2007)
Kane, Stephen R., Ford, Eric B., Ge, Jian
To achieve maximum planet yield for a given radial velocity survey, the observing strategy must be carefully considered. In particular, the adopted cadence can greatly affect the sensitivity to...
Detectability of Exoplanetary Transits from Radial Velocity Surveys (2007)
Of the known transiting extra-solar planets, a few have been detected through photometric follow-up observations of radial velocity planets. Perhaps the best known of these is the transiting...
Simulations for Multi-Object Spectrograph Planet Surveys (2007)
Kane, Stephen R., Schneider, Donald P., Ge, Jian
Radial velocity surveys for extra-solar planets generally require substantial amounts of large telescope time in order to monitor a sufficient number of stars. Two of the aspects which can limit such...
Transiting Planet Simulations from the All Sky Extrasolar Planets Survey (2006)
Many of the planets discovered via the radial velocity technique are hot Jupiters in 3-5 day orbits with ~10$% chance of transiting their parent star. However, radial velocity surveys for extra-solar...
Ge, Jian, Van Eyken, Julian, Mahadevan, Suvrath, DeWitt, Curtis, Kane, Stephen R., Cohen, Roger, ...
We report the detection of the first extrasolar planet, ET-1 (HD 102195b), using the Exoplanet Tracker (ET), a new generation Doppler instrument. The planet orbits HD 102195, a young star with solar...
Jian Ge, Julian Van Eyken, Suvrath Mahadevan, Curtis Dewitt, Stephen R. Kane, Roger Cohen, ...
We report the detection of the first extrasolar planet, ET-1 (HD 102195b), using the Exoplanet Tracker (ET), a new-generation Doppler instrument. The planet orbits HD 102195, a young star with solar...
Kane, Stephen R., Cameron, Andrew Collier, Horne, Keith, James, David, Lister, T. A., Pollacco, Don L., ...
The Wide Angle Search for Planets prototype (WASP0) is a wide-field instrument used to search for extra-solar planets via the transit method. Here we present the results of a monitoring program which...
Kane, Stephen R., Lister, T. A., Cameron, Andrew Collier, Horne, Keith, James, David, Pollacco, Don L., ...
Recent wide-field photometric surveys which target a specific field for long durations are ideal for studying both long and short period stellar variability. Here we report on 75 variable stars...
A dearth of planetary transits in the direction of NGC 6940 (2005)
Hood, Ben, Cameron, Andrew Collier, Kane, Stephen R., Bramich, D. M., Horne, Keith, Street, Rachel A., ...
We present results of our survey for planetary transits in the field of NGC 6940. We think nearly all of our observed stars are field stars. We have obtained high precision (3-10 millimags at the...
Kane, Stephen R., Cameron, Andrew Collier, Horne, Keith, James, David, Lister, Tim A., Pollacco, Don L., ...
WASP0 is a prototype for what is intended to become a collection of wide-angle survey instruments whose primary aim is to detect extra-solar planets transiting across the face of their parent star....
Radio observations of the supernova remnant candidate G312.5-3.0 (2003)
Kane, Stephen R, Vaughan, Alan E
The radio images from the Parkes–MIT–NRAO (PMN) Southern Sky Survey at 4850 MHz have revealed a number of previously unknown radio sources. One such source, G312.5-3.0 (PMN J1421-6415), has been...
Recent Results from the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) Prototype (2002)
Kane, Stephen R., Horne, Keith, Street, Rachel A., Pollacco, Don L., James, David, Tsapras, Yiannis, ...
WASP0 is a prototype for what is intended to become a collection of WASPs whose primary aim is to detect transiting extra-solar planets across the face of their parent star. The WASP0 instrument is a...
Studying the Galactic Bulge Through Spectroscopy of Microlensed Sources: II. Observations (2001)
Kane, Stephen R., Sahu, Kailash C.
The spectroscopy of microlensed sources towards the Galactic bulge provides a unique opportunity to study (i) the kinematics of the Galactic bulge, particularly its far-side, (ii) the effects of...
Kane, Stephen R., Sahu, Kailash C.
The observed spectra of the microlensed sources towards the Galactic bulge may be used as a tool for studying the kinematics and extinction effects in the Galactic bulge. In this paper, we first...
Radio Observations of the Supernova Remnant Candidate G312.5-3.0 (2000)
Kane, Stephen R., Vaughan, Alan E.
The radio images from the Parkes-MIT-NRAO (PMN) Southern Sky Survey at 4850 MHz have revealed a number of previously unknown radio sources. One such source, G312.5-3.0 (PMN J1421-6415), has been...
Discovery of the optical counterpart and early optical observations of GRB 990712 (2000)
Sahu, Kailash C., Vreeswijk, P. M., Bakos, Gaspar A., Menzies, John W., Bragaglia, Angela, Frontera, Filippo, ...
We present the discovery observations of the optical counterpart of the gamma-ray burst GRB 990712 taken 4.16 hr after the outburst and discuss its light curve observed in the V, R, and I bands...
Discovery of the optical counterpart and early optical observations of GRB 990712 (2000)
Sahu, Kailash C., Vreeswijk, P. M., Bakos, Gaspar A., Menzies, John W., Bragaglia, Angela, Frontera, Filippo, ...
We present the discovery observations of the optical counterpart of the gamma-ray burst GRB 990712 taken 4.16 hr after the outburst and discuss its light curve observed in the V, R, and I bands...