Publications (90)
Towards completing Planetary Systems: The role of minor bodies on life growth and survival
Jorge Lillo-Box, David Kipping, Isabel Rebollido +8
The search for extrasolar planets in the past decades has shown that planets abound in the Solar neighborhood. While we are still missing an Earth twin, the forthcoming space missi…
Solar Hegemony: M-Dwarfs Are Unlikely to Host Observers Such as Ourselves
David Kipping
With no firm evidence for life beyond our solar system, inferences about the population observers such as ourselves rests upon the Earth as a single input, at least for now. Whilst…
Constellations of co-orbital planets: horseshoe dynamics, long-term stability, transit timing variations, and potential as SETI beacons
Sean N. Raymond, Dimitri Veras, Matthew S. Clement +3
Co-orbital systems contain two or more bodies sharing the same orbit around a planet or star. The best-known flavors of co-orbital systems are tadpoles (in which two bodies' angula…
Identification and Mitigation of a Vibrational Telescope Systematic with Application to Spitzer
Ryan C. Challener, Joseph Harrington, James Jenkins +17
We observed Proxima Centauri with the Spitzer Space Telescope InfraRed Array Camera (IRAC) five times in 2016 and 2017 to search for transits of Proxima Centauri b. Following stand…
Black Swans in Astronomical Data
David Kipping
Astronomy has always been propelled by the discovery of new phenomena lacking precedent, often followed by new theories to explain their existence and properties. In the modern era…
Contact Inequality -- First Contact Will Likely Be With An Older Civilization
David Kipping, Adam Frank, Caleb Scharf
First contact with another civilization, or simply another intelligence of some kind, will likely be quite different depending on whether that intelligence is more or less advanced…