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Exomoon & Exosatellite detection methods:
We are search for transiting exosatellites and exomoons in the lightucurves of directly monitored wide-orbit exoplanets, free-floating planets and brown dwarfs
Our cycle 4 JWST ONC monitoring program will be sensetive to exosatellite transits down to about the size of Mars
Searching transiting exosatellites in the JWST lightcurves of WISE 1049 A & B and WISE 0855 (both in review)
A search for transiting exosatellites in archival Spitzer lightcurves
AAS Journal Author Series Video Linked below
Press coverage from Universe Today & related seminar talk video is below
Press coverage from New Scientist, Scientias, AAS interview and Astrobites
Press coverage from the Economist and Centauri Dreams
And in other exomoon news... NPR and Sky & Telescope
Exomoons and Exorings with the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO)
AAS Author Series interview on exosatellite detection
Transiting Exosatellites, Moons, and Planets in Orion (TEMPO) Survey:
This is a proposed 30-day survey with the Roman Space Telescope led by Melinda Soares-Furtado, Andrew Vanderburg and myself designed to detect a population of transiting extrasolar satellites, moons, and planets in the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC). The young (1–3 Myr), densely-populated ONC harbors about a thousand bright brown dwarfs (BDs) and free-floating planetary-mass objects (FFPs)
Demographics:
We are focused on constraining the demographics of companions at host masses and ages that are currently poorly understood. For example, see the archival Spitzer light curve paper above, which constrains the occurrence rates in question illustrated on the right figure.
We're also working to understand trends within the existing exoplanet population and explore connections to our own solar system.
Press coverage from Scientific American and Astrobites
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