NEWTS News

23 February 2026

Happy new year! We've been very slack with updating this news section of the group website. But here are a few papers the NEWTS group was involved with last year. If you want to work with us on topics related to these or similar ideas, please get in touch.

Inferring hemispheric asymmetries of stellar active regions through the information content of astrometric signals by Deagan and Montet.
Detection of 27 Candidate Circumbinary Planets Through Apsidal Precession of Eclipsing Binaries Observed by TESS by Thornton, Montet, White, et al.
Looking for Companionship: Radial Velocity Follow-Up of Lithium-Rich Giants with ESPRESSO by Sayeed, Casey, Montet et al.
Photometric activity cycles in fast-rotating stars: Revisiting the reality of stellar activity cycle branches by Chahal et al.
A Planet Candidate Orbiting near the Hot Jupiter TOI-2818 b Inferred through Transit Timing by McKee, Montet et al.

One of the things I'm proudest of last year is the creation of the Stellar and Planetary Research in Greater Sydney (SPRIGS) meetings that now occur twice a year in Sydney, modeled in the vein of the Bay Area Exoplanet Meetings. If you're in town, we hope to see you come along to one!

5 September 2025

2025 NSW Young Tall Poppy Award Winners

I'm very honoured to have been awarded a 2025 New South Wales Young Tall Poppy award by the Australian Institute for Policy and Science, an award given for a combination of scientific impact and science communication efforts. Thank you to all the students, collaborators, and colleagues who I've had the pleasure of working with over the years who share so much of the credit for all the cool things we've been able to do together!

27 January 2022

Happy new year! With a new academic year upon us here is a very incomplete list of a few key papers the NEWTS group was involved with last year. Looking forward to more fun projects in 2022! If you want to work with us on topics related to these or similar ideas, please get in touch.

V1298 Tau with TESS: Updated Ephemerides, Radii, and Period Constraints from a Second Transit of V1298 Tau e by Feinstein, David, Montet et al.
C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein): The Nearly Spherical Cow of Comets by Bernardinelli, Bernstein, Montet et al.
A Search for Transits among the Delta Scuti Variables in Kepler by Hey, Montet et al.
Evidence for Centrifugal Breakout around the Young M Dwarf TIC 234284556 by Palumbo, Montet, Feinstein et al.
H-alpha and Ca II Infrared Triplet Variations During a Transit of the 23 Myr Planet V1298 Tau c by Feinstein, Montet et al.
The unpopular Package: a Data-driven Approach to De-trend TESS Full Frame Image Light Curves by Hattori, Foreman-Mackey, Hogg, Montet et al.

Congrats to all lead authors on their efforts!

15 July 2021

Group member Elsa Palumbo (Caltech '23) has submitted her first first-author paper, "Evidence for Centrifugal Breakout around the Young M Dwarf TIC 234284556." You can read the manuscript on the arXiv at this link and you can read her summary of the article here. Congrats, Elsa!

13 January 2021

Newest Group Member, January 2021

We have a group website! This is where we'll post the latest about new papers, major milestones for group members, and other events worth reporting.

This space will also feature guest posts from different members of the group highlighting both the day-to-day life and lived experiences of group members. Watch this space!