The Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium has released its list of Fall Award recipients, and three members of the ExoDyn research team have been recognized. Graduate students Joseph Livesey and Eshan Raul, along with undergraduate researcher …
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New paper: Investigating the Formation of Planets Interior to in situ Hot Jupiters
In a his new first-author paper (now on arXiv), UW–Madison undergraduate alumni Devansh Mathur investigates what happens to small planetary embryos interior to a forming hot Jupiter. Using hundreds of N-body simulations, he showed that …
New paper: How Einstein’s Theory Might Help Planets Around White Dwarfs Stay Habitable
A new paper led by UW-Madison undergraduate Eva Stafne and published in ApJ this week (arXiv preprint here) explores how general relativity (the same physics that explains Mercury’s orbit) could help preserve life-friendly conditions on …