Imaging and Remote Sensing of Other Worlds - D. Mawet - 4/5/2017

The discovery of thousands of exoplanets over the past 20 years has taught us that our solar system is just one example among a mind-boggling variety of world architectures. Most of these planetary systems were detected by indirect techniques, which have ushered in the field of exoplanetology.

Associate Professor of Astronomy Dimitri Mawet considers the findings made possible by direct, high-contrast imaging and spectroscopy. Beyond providing us with striking pictures of other worlds, this technique has yielded the most detailed measurements made to date by remote sensing of exoplanet atmospheres.

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Dimitri Mawet: http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~dmawet/
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