Physics and Astronomy - Astronomy Seminar - Joshua Pepper, Lehigh University

Title: "The Future of Exoplanet Discovery"

October 22, 2019
11 am - 12 am
Location
Wilder 202
Sponsored by
Physics & Astronomy Department
Audience
Public
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Tressena Manning
603-646-2854

Abstract: Are we drowning in exoplanets, or have we barely begun to discover them?  What do we currently understand about the broad exoplanet population? With hundreds to thousands of new transit candidates coming from the TESS and Gaia missions, and major new populations to be discovered by WFIRST and direct imaging surveys, things are starting to get interesting.  In this talk, I will describe the current and future landscape of exoplanet discovery.  In ten years, the exoplanet field will be both shockingly different and strangely similar to the current situation.

Location
Wilder 202
Sponsored by
Physics & Astronomy Department
Audience
Public
More information
Tressena Manning
603-646-2854