In the effort to characterize the masses, radii, and atmospheres of potentially habitable exoplanets, there is an urgent need to find examples of such planets transiting nearby M dwarfs. The MEarth Project is an ongoing effort to do so, as a ground-based photometric survey designed to detect exoplanets as small as 2R⊕ transiting mid-to-late M dwarfs within 33 pc of the Sun. Unfortunately, ident...

The Rossiter-McLaughlin (RM) effect is the distortion of stellar spectral lines that occurs during eclipses or transits, due to stellar rotation. We assess the future prospects for using the RM effect to measure the alignment of planetary orbits with the spin axes of their parent stars, and to confirm exoplanetary transits. We compute the achievable accuracy for the parameters of interest, in g...

Kepler-296 is a binary star system with two M-dwarf components separated by 0.2”. Five transiting planets have been confirmed to be associated with the Kepler-296 system; given the evidence to date, however, the planets could in principle orbit either star. This ambiguity has made it difficult to constrain both the orbital and physical properties of the planets. Using both statistical and analy...

Exoplanet systems with multiple transiting planets are natural laboratories for testing planetary astrophysics. One such system is HD 191939 (TOI-1339), a bright (V=9) and Sun-like (G9V) star, which TESS found to host three (b, c, d). The have periods of 9, 29, 38 days each similar sizes from 3 3.4 $R_{\oplus}$. To further characterize the system, we measured radial velocity (RV) over 415 Keck/...

If planetary systems are ubiquitous then a fraction of stars should possess a transiting planet when being microlensed. This paper presents a study of the influence of such planets on microlensing light curves. For the giant planets recently identified, the deviations in the light curve can be substantial, although the specifics of the perturbations are dependent upon the radius of the planet r...

We present the first eye-tracking dataset for unconstrained ego-centric videos. The dataset captures over 6 hours of subjects performing common daily activities. These activities are manually annotated as socializing, walking, object manipulating, transiting and observing.