Michael Endl
University of Texas at Austin


Exoplanets From Outer Space!


     Currently we have two space missions, CoRoT and KEPLER, that are
     searching for new transiting exoplanets. Planets that transit in
     front of their host star can justifiably be called the "crown
     jewels" in our current collection of exoplanets. They allow us to
     study them in significantly more detail than the remaining
     majority of the planet sample. I will review the current results
     from CoRoT and KEPLER and will describe in detail the work our
     team has been doing as part of the extensive ground-based
     follow-up for both missions, using the telescopes at McDonald and
     Keck Observatory.