A Search for Brown Dwarfs in the Alpha Persei Cluster
We present preliminary results from a deep near-infrared survey of a ˜ 1 square degree area in the young open cluster Alpha Persei using the wide-field Omega...
A search for circumbinary planets in CoRoT eclipsing binary light curves
Several transiting circumbinary planets have been found in data of the Kepler mission [1-5]. Both CoRoT and Kepler have surveyed similar numbers of stars, and...
A Search for EHB Pulsators in the Globular Cluster NGC 6752
We describe the status of a project whose main goal is to detect variability along the extreme horizontal branch of the globular cluster NGC 6752. Based on...
A Search for Evidence of an Abundance Gradient in the Galactic Halo Based on Stars from SDSS-I DR-5
One of the classical tests of the early dynamical evolution of the Milky Way is the prediction of the monolithic collapse model (e.g., Eggen, Lynden-Bell, &...
A Search for Extreme Ultracool Objects in UKIDSS+VISTA
Brown dwarfs with thick water cloud atmospheres, ancient population III brown dwarfs, and nearby free-floating planetary mass objects are targets in our new...
A Search for Giant Planets Around Very Young Nearby Late-type Dwarfs
Very young late-type dwarfs at distances closer than 30 pc are excellent sites to provide a direct detection of extrasolar planets. The combination of youth and...
A search for hydrogenated fullerenes in fullerene-containing planetary nebulae
Detections of C60 and C70 fullerenes in planetary nebulae (PNe) of the Magellanic Clouds and of our own Galaxy have raised the idea that other forms of carbon...