The Monitor project: Rotation of low-mass stars in the open cluster M34

(2006)

Authors:

Jonathan Irwin, Suzanne Aigrain, Simon Hodgkin, Mike Irwin, Jerome Bouvier, Cathie Clarke, Leslie Hebb, Estelle Moraux

The central kinematics of NGC 1399 measured with 14 pc resolution

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 367 (2006) 2-18

Authors:

SJ Magorrian, R.C.W. Houghton, M. Sarzi, N. Thatte

Monitor: Transiting planets and brown dwarfs in star forming regions and young open clusters

Astronomische Nachrichten 327:1 (2006) 9-13

Authors:

ST Hodgkin, JM Irwin, S Aigrain, L Hebb, E Moraux, MJ Irwin

Abstract:

The Monitor project** is a large scale photometric monitoring survey of ten star forming regions and open clusters aged between 1 and 200 Myr using wide-field optical cameras on 2-4 m telescopes worldwide. The primary goal of the project is to search for close-in planets and brown dwarfs at young ages through the detection of transit events. Such detections would provide unprecedented constraints on planet formation and migration time-scales, as well as on evolutionary models of planets and brown dwarfs in an age range where such constraints are very scarce. Additional science goals include rotation period measurements and the analysis of flares and accretion-related variability. © 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

Climate Change: A Catastrophe in Slow Motion

Chicago Journal of International Law 6:2 (2006) 6

Planet formation and migration

Reports on Progress in Physics 69:1 (2006) 119-180

Authors:

JCB Papaloizou, C Terquem

Abstract:

We review the observations of extrasolar planets, ongoing developments in theories of planet formation, orbital migration and the evolution of multiplanet systems. © 2006 IOP Publishing Ltd.