Events in Physics
Ernst de Mooij (Queen's University Belfast)
Location: PS1.28
Characterising the atmospheres of exoplanets with ground-based telescopes
Since the discovery of the first plane outside our solar-system almost two decades ago, the field of exoplanet research has made a lot of progress. Not only has the number of known exoplanets increased to over 1600, the atmospheres of dozens of these planets have been detected.
These atmospheric studies have mainly been made for transiting planets. For these planets is not only possible to study their atmosphere in emission/reflection during the secondary eclipse, but also in transmission during the transit. I will show that ground-based telescopes can be used to reach the high precision required to detect the atmospheric signatures of transiting exoplanets.