Latest Updates

2008-06-08: With Saskia starting school and Mackenzie becoming increasingly verbose, the world seems to be in a state of flux at the moment. This is certainly true of transiting planet research, as demonstrated by amazing results presented at the recent Transiting Planets conference held in Boston. Keep an eye out for such results as new low-mass planets from HARPS and secondary eclipses of the 111.78 day period planet HD 80606b.

2008-01-23: I've more or less completed my transition to the Michelson Science Center now. Also, we have three new planets from SuperWASP, including WASP-3b from the northern installation, and the first two planets from the southern installation; WASP-4b and WASP-5b.

2007-12-10: The final SuperWASP 2004 transit candidate papers is now accepted in MNRAS, entitled ("SuperWASP-N Extra-solar Planet Candidates from Fields 06hr < RA < 16hr"). Additionally, I will be moving to Caltech at the end of this year to join the Michelson Science Center as a Staff Scientist.

2007-06-27: I've had a few papers accepted in MNRAS recently regarding my work on simulating results from radial velocity surveys ("Simulations for Multi-Object Spectrograph Planet Surveys") and a related study on transiting planets ("Detectability of Exoplanetary Transits from Radial Velocity Surveys"). I have a couple more on the way regarding optimisation of observing cadence to improve planet detection efficiency.

2006-09-26: Introducing two new transiting planets - WASP-1b and WASP-2b. More details here.

2006-03-20: Mackenzie Scarlett Kane, my beautiful daughter, has entered the world.

2006-01-25: We've discovered a 5.5 Earth-mass planet via microlensing. More details here.

2006-01-11: Introducing our new planet: ET-1.

2005-09-28: I had two lead author papers accepted for publication today; a microlensing theory paper ("Studying the Galactic Bulge Through Spectroscopy of Microlensed Sources: I. Theoretical Considerations") accepted in ApJ, and a WASP0 transit hunting paper ("Results from the Wide Angle Search for Planets Prototype (WASP0) III: Planet Hunting in the Draco Field"), accepted in MNRAS. More details are in my publication list.