The low-mass star group are involved in a wide variety of programmes to detect and characterise brown dwarfs and extrasolar planets. Over the last decade the group has found around 40 extrasolar planets using different techniques and made substantial contributions to the related area of brown dwarfs by discovering, characterising and modeling nearby and cluster brown dwarfs by a variety of techniques. The expertise of the group lies in the data reduction and spectral analysis of low mass stars, moving group analysis, radial velocities studies of exoplanets, databasing, statistics, theoretical and observational studies of young BDs, adaptive optics and laser guide star observations.

CAR-UH are pioneering a number of new extrasolar planet and brown dwarf projects:
(1) using our own polarimeter to observe the reflected light from extrasolar planets
(2) an infrared exoplanet planet transit survey recently awarded 200 UKIRT nights
(3) an infrared radial velocity spectrograph for the UKIRT (UPF)
(4) the detection and follow-up of brown dwarfs from the UKIDSS LAS survey
(5) the UKIDSS and VISTA galactic plane surveys

CONTACT
THE UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE HIGHER EDUCATION CORPORATION
Center for Astrophysical Research College Lane, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK
Tel: +44 1707 , FAX +44 1707

Collaborators
Ben Burningham <b.burningham@herts.ac.uk>
David Pinfield <d.j.pinfield@herts.ac.uk>
Federico Marocco <f.marocco@herts.ac.uk>
Hugh Jones <h.r.a.jones@herts.ac.uk> (Coordinator)
John Barnes <j.r.barnes@herts.ac.uk>
Philip Lucas <phyqpwl@herts.ac.uk>