One of NASA's proposed missions, known as the Fast INfrared Exoplanet
Spectroscopy Survey Explorer (FINESSE), could greatly improve our understanding of extrasolar worlds.
My research focuses on characterizing the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets as part of ACCESS: the Arizona - CfA - Católica Exoplanet
Spectroscopy Survey.
He participates in the HATSouth survey, a global network of automated wide - field telescopes dedicated to discovering transiting exoplanets, and is the PUC principal investigator of ACCESS, the Arizona - CfA - Católica Exoplanet
Spectroscopy Survey, which will provide the first homogeneous database of ground - based exoplanetary transmission spectra in the optical using the IMACS instrument in Chile.
As part of the ACCESS team (Arizona - CfA - Catolica Exoplanet
Spectroscopy Survey), I study the atmospheres of transiting exoplanets through transmission spectroscopy.
She is an expert on exoplanet atmospheres studies and the CfA Principal Investigator of ACCESS, the Arizona - CfA - Catolica Exoplanet
Spectroscopy Survey.
Swain is principal investigator of the Fast Infrared Exoplanet
Spectroscopy Survey Explorer (Finesse), a proposed 30 - inch space telescope that would probe more than 200 planets around nearby stars to learn about their atmospheres and how they formed.
The third contender, the Fast Infrared Exoplanet
Spectroscopy Survey Explorer (FINESSE), aims to probe the origins and makeup of the atmospheres around exoplanets.
Not exact matches
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surveys combined spectroscopy with visible and near - infrared imaging by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for S
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spectroscopy with visible and near - infrared imaging by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for
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Its specialty will be time - domain
spectroscopy — useful for observing accretion by galactic black holes,
surveys of distant supernovae and even searches for extrasolar planets.
The Tarantula
Survey is an ambitious ESO Large Programme that has obtained multi-epoch
spectroscopy of over 1,000 massive stars in the 30 Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
My research interest is the detection of prebiotic molecules in space via rotational
spectroscopy, and my prior research includes a spectral
survey of Orion - Kl, as well as searching for molecules in Sagittarius B2 (N).
Multi-epoch optical
spectroscopy of R139 was obtained as part of the VLT - FLAMES Tarantula
Survey, revealing a double - lined system.
We combined photometry, medium / high - resolution
spectroscopy, adaptive optics / speckle imaging and archival
survey images to rule out any false positive detection scenarios, validate the planet, and further characterize the system.
Near - IR
spectroscopy of... ▽ More We have searched ~ 8200 sq. degs for high proper motion (~ 0.5 - 2.7» / year) T dwarfs by combining first - epoch data from the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) 3 - Pi
Survey, the 2MASS All - Sky Point Source Catalog, and the WISE Preliminary Data Release.
Here we combine K2 photometry with
spectroscopy, adaptive optics imaging, and archival
survey images to analyze two small planets orbiting the nearby, field age, M dwarfs K2 - 26 (EPIC 202083828) and K2 - 9.
Ecliptic fields will be observed for approximately 75 - days enabling a unique exoplanet
survey which fills the gaps in duration and sensitivity between the Kepler and TESS missions, and offers pre-launch exoplanet target identification for JWST transit
spectroscopy.
The initial transit signal was identified in KELT - North
survey data, and the planetary nature of the occulter was established using a combination of follow - up photometry, high - resolution imaging, high - resolution
spectroscopy, and precise radial velocity measurements.
We identified the initial transit signal in the KELT - North
survey data and established the planetary nature of the companion through precise follow - up photometry, high - resolution
spectroscopy, precise radial velocity measurements, and high - resolution adaptive optics imaging.
Shectman led the Las Campanas Redshift
Survey (LCRS), the first galaxy redshift survey to use fiber - optic spectroscopy to measure the distances to hundreds of galaxies in each exp
Survey (LCRS), the first galaxy redshift
survey to use fiber - optic spectroscopy to measure the distances to hundreds of galaxies in each exp
survey to use fiber - optic
spectroscopy to measure the distances to hundreds of galaxies in each exposure.
From low - resolution optical and near - IR
spectroscopy we classified the primary and the companion as an M7.5 +... ▽ More In a search for common proper motion companions using the VISTA Hemisphere
Survey and 2MASS catalogs we have identified a very red (J - Ks = 2.47 mag) late - L dwarf companion of a previously unrecognized M dwarf VHS J125601.92 - 125723.9, located at a projected angular separation of 8.06» + / -0.03».
Data obtained for this project includes a deep Chandra
survey of the Galactic Bulge; deep, high resolution IR imaging from VLT / ISAAC, CTIO / ISPI, and the UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey (GPS); and IR spectroscopy from VLT / ISAAC and IRTF /
survey of the Galactic Bulge; deep, high resolution IR imaging from VLT / ISAAC, CTIO / ISPI, and the UKIDSS Galactic Plane
Survey (GPS); and IR spectroscopy from VLT / ISAAC and IRTF /
Survey (GPS); and IR
spectroscopy from VLT / ISAAC and IRTF / SpeX.
Initial data came from the TRENDS (TaRgetting bENchmark - objects with Doppler
Spectroscopy) high - contrast imaging
survey that uses adaptive optics and related technologies to target older, faint objects orbiting nearby stars, and precise measurements were made at the W. M. Keck Observatory on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
The scope and flexibility of SDSS - V will be unique among extant and future spectroscopic
surveys: it is all - sky, with matched
survey infrastructures in both hemispheres; it provides near - IR and optical multi-object fiber
spectroscopy that is rapidly reconfigurable to serve high target densities, targets of opportunity, and time - domain monitoring; and it provides optical, ultra-wide-field integral field
spectroscopy.
The instruments also have the capability for imaging and
spectroscopy in the wavelength range 2 - 180 micron in the pointed observation mode, occasionally inserted into the continuous
survey operation.
The combination of radial velocity and imaging follow - up was represented by the California Planet
Survey Targeting Benchmark - objects with Doppler
Spectroscopy (CPS / TRENDS), a consortium of US - based universities and researchers.