The new frontier in exoplanet research is the characterization of low-mass exoplanets now that their masses and radii are routinely measured. With these observations, the first task is to determine ...

Larry Nittler, staff scientist at DTM, will give a talk titled "Presolar Stardust in the Solar System" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, 28 March 2016, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly ...

Mercedes López-Morales, an astronomer at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, will give a talk titled “Breaking Through Exoplanetary Atmospheres” at 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 21, 2016, in ...

Research Program: I worked with my mentor, Matthias Raives, on recreating one of his papers simulating winds of magnetars (neutron stars with strong magnetic fields), but instead I'll simulating hot ...

Research Program: This summer, I worked on computationally analyzing how the tidal torque applied on a Hot Jupiter by its host star compares with the torque produced by its angular momentum loss to ...

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