UR: The Orbit and Growth of HD 142527B
In the latest of our #UndergradResearch series, discover William Balmer’s research on how direct imaging can show us more about planet formation!
Making a “Mega-Telescope” for Exoplanets
How can we combine multiple telescopes to learn about exoplanets? Interferometry!
First Photos of a Baby Planet
To understand planet formation, we need to observe newborn planets that are in their earlier stages of development. This is exactly what was discovered around PDS 70 – the first young, forming planet around a protostar of this age. Read more to learn about what we saw, and how we got that data!
It’s a bird, it’s a planet, it’s a … speckle?
Well, let’s have a drink and see if that helps us figure things out.
Directly measuring the mass of an imaged planet
Extremely accurate measurements of the position of β Pictoris from the Hipparcos and Gaia satellites allow the direct measurement of the mass of the imaged planet β Pic b.
Earth Twins and Imposters– Determining the Odds of Detection
Using MC simulations, these authors seek to find how many Earth-like exoplanets will be detectable with future direct imaging missions.