David R. Ciardi

TL;DR: In this article, the late-type dwarf GJ 436 is known to host a transiting Neptune-mass planet in a 2.6 day orbit, and the authors present results of their interferometric measurements to directly determine the stellar diameter (R_* = 0.455 ± 0.018 R_☉) and effective temperature (T_(EFF) = 3416 ± 54 K).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply the light-curve modeling technique known as BLENDER to explore the possibility that the signal might be due to an astrophysical false positive (blend), and arrive conservatively at a false alarm rate of 1.6 × 10-5 that is small enough to validate the candidate as a planet (designated Kepler-10 c) with a very high level of confidence.

TL;DR: In this article, the location and extent of the system's habitable zone were estimated from the CHARA array and trigonometric parallax information, and it was shown that two of the planets orbiting GJ 581, planets d and g, spend all or part of their orbit within or just on the edge of the habitable zone.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors observed 152 nearby solar-type stars with the Infrared Spectrometer (IRS) on the Spitzer Space Telescope and obtained an overall success rate for finding excesses in the long-wavelength IRS band (30-34 μm) of 11.8% ± 2.4%.

TL;DR: In this paper, the physical properties of the disk are examined by calculating parameter probabilities based on a passive, flat-disk model for two pre-main-sequence objects, T Tau and SU Aur.