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Exocast-75b: Radial Velocity Surveys of Young Planets with Dr. Louise Nielsen

adminOctober 21, 2024No CommentsTags: astronomy, ESO, exocast, exoplanet detection, exoplanets, LMU, planetary science, podcast, radial velocity, science

The Exocast team are joined on this episode by Dr. Louise Nielsen, a Danish astronomer who, after a batchelor’s degree at Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, moved to the Geneva Observatory for a PhD focussing on radial velocity (RV) observations of exoplanets. Louise then completed postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Oxford and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching, before joining the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich as a staff astronomer in 2023. Louise discusses

Exocast-54b: Observing Exoplanets from the Ground

adminSeptember 29, 2021No CommentsTags: Chile, ESO, exoplanet, exoplanets, HARPS, high resolution spectroscopy, La Palma, La Silla, LSST, Mauna Kea, observatories

In this episode the exocast team discuss how we observe exoplanets from the ground, how different it is from space, where we put the telescopes and why. The team start by sharing their journeys to telescopes around the world to make observations, and discuss the different bands in the atmosphere that we observe in. The main difference between ground- and space-based observatories is their size, the instruments on some of the ground-based observatories are room

Exocast-18b – Direct Imaging Special with special guest Sasha Hinkley

adminOctober 7, 2017No CommentsTags: adaptive optics, astronomy, Beta Pic, coronography, E-ELT, ESO, exoplanets, HR8799, JWST, Keck, sasha hinckley, Sphere, telescopes, VLT

In the 18th episode of Exocast, we chat to Sasha Hinkley, a direct imaging expert at the University of Exeter: “Spotlights & fireflies” – what it means to be able to directly image planets and how we do it. Why direct imaging may not have the numbers compared to other detection techniques, but can give us so much more information on each planet The future of direct imaging instruments, including JWST, WFIRST and the E-ELT.

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